Spr 2019 Week 5: Whitney's Allover Pattern, Checkerboard and Counterchange

Spr 2019 Week 5: Whitney's Allover Pattern, Checkerboard and Counter Change

The YouTube Video you want to watch first is Design Series - Part 3 / Using Pattern by Russell Black. This is where Mr. Black talks about the checkerboard design pattern and demonstrates how to apply that pattern to a sketch:

• Design Series - Part 3 / Using Pattern by Russell Black

Here are some other video you might want to watch

Edgar Whitney's notion: Design the shapes first, then fit nature or objects into them. Warning!!! When Russell black first came upon this notion in his first edition copy of Watercolor: The Hows and Whys by Edgar A. Whitney published in 1958, it blew his mind. 

28 minute video by Russell Black: Design Series - Part 2 / Pattern:

13 minute YouTube video by Russell Black  Design Series - Part 4 / Patterns of Depth:

You might also watch: Painting Without line: where Russell Black talks about positive painting (vignette), negative painting and Counter Change or Interlock: 

https://youtu.be/EqM4oQeMOj8

I found a few pages from the book, Conversations in Paint by Charles Dunn which address this weeks lesson (click on image to enlarge).

Patterns of Clarity and Interest

Seeing in Symbols

Spr 2019 Week 4: The Wash and Silhouette Painting from the Value Pattern

Week 4: The Wash and Silhouette Painting from the Value Pattern

In-class Demo
Steps 1 - 5:




Web Page Tutorials

• Wash & Silhouette Painting - parts 1 & 2
• Daniel Novotny: “SHAPES AND COLOR” FULL DEMONSTRATION [+VIDEO] + COMMENTARY & CRITIQUE BY RUSSELL BLACK
• DOUBLE VISION: “SEEING SIMPLY” WITH RUSSELL BLACK – PART 2 [+VIDEO]
• DOUBLE VISION: “SEEING SIMPLY” WITH DANIEL NOVOTNY – PART 2 [+VIDEO]

YouTube Video Tutorials

• Wash & Silhouette Painting - Part 2 - the Painting (Russell Black)
• Frank Webb: Sketch, Value Pattern, Mother Wash and Silhouette Shapes
• Design Series - Part 11 / the Value Pattern Sketch (Russell Black)
• Design Series - Part 12 / VPS to Painting (Russell Black)
• Design Series - Part 13 / the Final Painting (Russell Black)

Spr 2019 Watercolor: An Innovative Approach -- Week 03 -- The Value Pattern

Week 3: The Value Study, and the Wash and Silhouette Painting

Web Page Tutorials

• Elements of Design – Tonal Value: Part 2 Value Study by Daniel Novotny 
• Creative Use of Values by Gary Tucker
• Elements of Design – Tonal Value: Part 1. Scales, Values & colors
• Elements_of_Design -- Tonal Value: Part 3. Value Keys
• Frank Webb: Design Before Color (note, you'll need to download the PDF)

YouTube Video Tutorials

• The Value Pattern Sketch by Russell Black Watercolor
• Design Series - Part 11 / the Value Pattern Sketch by Russell Black
• Plein Air Painting with Frank Francese - The Value Sketch (this is an excellent tutorial on simplification and creating a value pattern on location)
• Value Study Part 1 by Rex Beanland
• All About Value Part 1 by Rex Beanland
• All About Value Part 2 by Rex Beanland

Spr 2019 Watercolor: An Innovative Approach -- Week 02 -- Figures in Watercolor Landscapes

Painting Figures in Watercolor Landscapes, quickly and easily

Figures add scale, life and interest to your paintings. There are numerous ways of painting figures in Watercolor. The following webpage and video tutorials are excellent resources to help expose you to several approaches

Web Page Tutorials: 

• Carrot People Tutorial from Urban Sketchers of Chicago
• As promised, the 'Carrot' method. Also see BobBlast's video tutorial below.
• Figures in the Landscape, A Demo by Dale Ziegler on wetcanvas.com
• This is an excellent little demo/tutorial on the forum for artists called wetcanvas.com. This tutorial includes how to paint a group of figures using the BLOB method. Painting a figure using negative painting and painting animals in landscapes (i.e. simple, suggestive, not detailed).
• Painting People With Watercolors by Jim Black

Video Tutorials: 

• Painting 'Carrot' Figures with BobBlast aka Robert Burridge
• This is an amazing tutorial. Not only does 'BobBlast' paint 'Carrot' figures, he does a negative shape figure he refers to as 'Rembrandt Portrait' method. They are all very fast. Bob uses India Ink, but you could either use Neutral Tint or Paynes Gray. Even better, you can mix your own neutral with Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Sienna or Thalo Blue and Burnt Umber. Once you master, feel free to add color.
• Bill Lupton - Painting People in Landscapes - the easy way
• Painting demonstration by Bill Lupton - Painting People in Action 1 - the easy way (1 of 3)
• Watercolor Figures in Landscapes by Patrick Ley-Greaves (starts at 4:00)

Integrating figures into landscape paintings (Advanced)

• Figures in a Street Scene by Grant Fuller
• How to paint figures in a landscape - Watercolor Tutorial by Tim Wilmot
• Simple street scene with lots of figures in watercolour by Dave Usher
• Now that we know how to paint cars and figures, let's combine the two

Spr 2019 Week 01 Watercolor: An Innovative Approach -- The California School of Watercolor

Introduction

A little history of one period of watercolor, the "California School" of Watercolor, which thrived between the mid-1920s and mid-50s. It emphasized bold design and color, broad brushstrokes and astracting a design from nature rather than copying a specific scene. Members of this "school" include Edgar Whitney, Rex Brandt, Emil Kosa Jr., George Post, Milford Zornes, Tony Couch, Edward Norton Ward, Ron Ranson, Robert E. Wood, Chris Van Winkle, Tom Fong, and Frank Webb.

• Learn more about the "California School" of Watercolor
• California Watercolors on Cal Arts Website
• Learn more about Edgar Whitney (this is a link to an archived blog)
• In particular, learn about the origins of Edgar Whitney's Texas Station Wagon Workshops and how he influenced the California Watercolorists 

Painting the Symbol of a Car

When we paint a large painting of a city street with buildings, cars and people, we don't want to realistically paint every detail of every building, car and person. Rather, we paint symbols of each of those.

Autumn by Alvaro Castagnet

YouTube Video Tutorials: How to Draw and Paint a car, or rather, the symbol of a car.

• A Simple Method for Drawing and Painting Cars by Rex Beanland
• An Easy Way to Paint Cars (Updated) by Rex Beanland
• Painting Automobiles by Frank Francese: Watercolor Painting
• More Advanced: Paint car + 2 figures by Nitin Singh

April 2 2019: Watercolor Resources and References

Watercolor Resources & References Page
(please note: this page will be continuously updated)

Where to find Legally Free Photos

• Where To Find Legally Free Reference Photos For Your Art by Phil Davies
• My Three Favorite Reference Image Libraries by Moshe Mikanovsky

Free Books on Watercolor (download PDF)

• PDF of Andrew Loomis's book Eye of the painter
• Landscape Painting in Watercolor by Zoltan Zabo
• Cezanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors by Carol Armstrong 2004
• American Drawings and Watercolors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent
• Watercolor books on Archive.org to download or borrow or waitlist
• Hardy Country Watercolors by Walter Tyndale
• The Water-Colours of J.M.W. Turner
• How to Paint Reflections in Water

 Web Reference Pages

• Ann Blockley's Archived Blog from 2014, 2015 and 2016: This post is on painting water
• Value Pattern Tutorial by Steve Fleming
• Color of Art Pigment Database An Artists Paint and Pigment Reference with Color Index Names, Color Index Numbers and Chemical Composition
• Watercolor Physics
• A Crash Course In Color Theory, Part Two: Color Harmony & Combinations
• Jane Blundell's Selection and Mixing of Daniel Smith Paints
• Keene Wilson: Current Watercolor Workout Class Homework
• Painting the Jazz Blues by Keene Wilson
• Don't Let Reality Get in the Way of a Good Design

YouTube Videos

• How to Use a Rigger Brush for Watercolor
• Figures in a Street Scene by Grant Fuller
• Tony van Hasselt: Underpaintings, Positive and Negative shapes, push backs, Calligraphy, etc 
• Frank Webb: Sketch, Value Pattern, Mother Wash and Silhouette Shapes 
• Frank Webb: On Composition and Design: Shape Sizes; Papa, Momma and Baby sizes
• Frank quotes George Post, the noted California painter: every painting ought to have one larger size, then another large size not quite so large not necessarily right next to it then 3 or 4 middle size pieces then 8 or 10 little busy areas, then you arrange them in such a way they make a great composition.
• Ways to Edit Your Watercolor Painting with Frank Webb
• Skip Lawrence: Jelly Bean Heads (starts at 2:06)
• Tony Van Hasselt: Shadow Value Pattern, Underpainting + Shadow Pattern (Vimeo Video)

Figures in Landscapes, architectural, gestural

• Architectural Figure Outlines
• Gestural Figures
• Architectural Drawing People
• draw-people-with-simple-formula-by-tony van hasselt
• Tony van Hasselt "You-Whoa" Folk

Interviews and Biographies

• Daniel Novotny
• Daniel Novotny's Website: ateliernovotny.com
• Interview of Daniel Novotny on parkablogs.com
• Daniel Novotny is a young watercolorist who is a prolific painter and educator based in Slovakia. He is influenced by Frank Webb, Ratindra Das, Robert E. Wood, and Rex Brandt 
• Frank Webb (born: 1927)
• YouTube Video Tutorial: Painting Enjoyable Color
• California School of Watercolor
• Insights of the "California School" of Watercolor

Materials

• Choosing which paints to add to your Palette on handprint.com
• Steve Mitchell's favorite 8 Colors for Watercolor
• Steve Mitchell's Micro Palette and 6 Colors He Chose to Put In
• Economical Sets of American Journey brank Paint from Cheap Joe's
• This is American Journey (Cheap Joe's Brand, compare with Da Vinci) set of 12. This would be an economic yet professional set to get you started. Excellent selection of colors. At the time of this post it is on sale for $76.49. If you bought these separately it would cost over twice that. Even a good deal at the $89.00 price.
• Color of Art Pigment Database: Did you ever wonder what was meant by PV19, PY97 & PB15
• Artist's Color Wheel: Chart show CIECAM hue angle and chroma

Winter 2019 -- Week 9 - Direct painting ala Daniel Novotny, with a tip of the hat to Edgar Whitney

Winter 2019 -- Week 9 - Direct painting ala Daniel Novotny, with a tip of the had to Edgar Whitney

In class Demo (finished after class)

Background:

• If, when facing the paper, you say to yourself, 'I'm an artist,' you haven't a clue as to what to do! If, however, you say, 'I am an entertainer, a shapemaker and an expressive symbol collector,' you know the task ahead and how to proceed. (Edgar A. Whitney)
• No door is closed to a stubborn scholar. (Edgar A. Whitney)
• Learn more about Edgar Whitney at the Edgar Whitney Water Color Archives
• Edgar Whitney's 6 Pattern Schemes
• To help his students at the early stages of their learning, Ed devised recipes for producing successful value sketches. He urged them to pick one as a design for their painting. He had analyzed about 100 hundred or so painting schemes which had withstood the test of time and had proved to be successful. These 6 basic pattern schemes are in no way constrictive, but rather allow for an infinite variety of possibilities.

• Daniel Novotny is an award-winning watercolorist based in Slovakia. His process begins with analyzing the subject of his painting and producing a value study (similar to Whitney's pattern schemes). He studies art relentlessly and emphasizes the importance of understanding the context in which artists create. the laws of composition and conceives painting as an abstract shape configuration.
• Learn more about Daniel Novotny, including his Whitney Pattern Series

YouTube Video Tutorials by Daniel Novotny

• Primary Triad. Watercolor Demonstration by Daniel Novotny
• Grayscale Demonstration: Everyday Masterpiece Series.
• Edges: hard and soft (church)
• Graded Underpainting. Mixed Tertiaries. (Harbor, piers)