Sofie Moderator
Posts : 713 Join date : 2009-11-27 Location : Courtenay, BC, Canada
| Subject: Narrowing your field of vision Wed Jun 23, 2010 6:33 pm | |
| Plein air painting is different from painting from photos for a number of reasons, one of the main ones being that you have a wide angle view of the scenery in front of you, not something that the camera has already cropped for you. Many artists go out with a view finder - a sort of window that they use to select a portion of the scene. Others prefer just to eyeball it, and then try to stick to the chosen area, keeping the parameters in mind. I prefer this meathod, but I constantly have to remind myself where the cut-off area is, so I don't include elements that are in my field of vision, but not in my composition. Last night I wasn't paying enough attention, and it wasn't until I checked the photo of the scene I was painting afterwards, that I realised how far off I got. Pictures to follow. | |
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Sofie Moderator
Posts : 713 Join date : 2009-11-27 Location : Courtenay, BC, Canada
| Subject: Re: Narrowing your field of vision Wed Jun 23, 2010 6:35 pm | |
| The whole view from my set-up. The cars parked there after I began my painting. | |
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Sofie Moderator
Posts : 713 Join date : 2009-11-27 Location : Courtenay, BC, Canada
| Subject: Re: Narrowing your field of vision Wed Jun 23, 2010 6:39 pm | |
| The painting. As you can see I didn't do the houses quite the same as they were, but I put in quite a few of them. they were all out there on the hillside jumping out at me. | |
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Sofie Moderator
Posts : 713 Join date : 2009-11-27 Location : Courtenay, BC, Canada
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Janet Moderator
Posts : 2050 Join date : 2009-11-15 Location : North Bay, Ontario Canada
| Subject: Re: Narrowing your field of vision Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:48 am | |
| Sofie thank you for sharing your experience! It's a very nice painting but can see how the crop would have made a better painting. Something to certainly consider when I test out plein air painting. | |
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Dale
Posts : 573 Join date : 2009-11-17 Location : Near Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
| Subject: Re: Narrowing your field of vision Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:47 pm | |
| Thank you for this subforum. I especially like that we get to see the photo as well as the painting - great teaching tools for us. | |
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Dana C
Posts : 379 Join date : 2010-06-02 Location : Seattle/Snohomish, WA
| Subject: Re: Narrowing your field of vision Thu Jul 08, 2010 10:42 am | |
| Thank you -- I am hoping to paint Plein air some day -- I am trying to learn more before I start so I have enough info to be able to start a painting. It also helps to see the photo of what you used so I can visualize what you chose to capture in your painting The wheather has been so very nice here and perfect to get out and paint.... | |
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