The Secret for Landscape Painting Success

THE ART OF LANDSCAPE LOOKING This video starts the second module (The Challenge of Landscape Painting) of my Patreon course. It is not a painting tutorial as such, but an illustrated lecture to demonstrate what I believe is the most important skill that you need to take your landscape painting to the next the Art of Landscape Looking. This is why I have shared it on my YouTube channel and in the forthcoming Patreon tutorials these ideas will be developed: I will show you how to approach the challenges of landscape painting - including choosing painting formats, creating depth through perspective and understanding the idea of spatial constraint. These will be available in the coming weeks to Patreon subscribers and please visit the link below if you would like to subscribe and follow my course. In this video, I review a number of my paintings, using them to illustrate how the skill of LANDSCAPE LOOKING has defined my work and helped to contribute to a body of work that has a distinct identity. We also take a walk into the Sussex countryside, where I explain some ideas to give you some structure to your thinking and observation when you are in the landscape. I should add a little footnote: I assumed that the old Dutch barn that was no longer there was the result of damage from a recent gale. Well, I was speaking with the farmer a couple of days later and he told me that it was destroyed by a group of vandals that had set it on fire! Very sad to learn that - farming is difficult at the best of times, without such idiotic behaviour. Please use this lecture as an ongoing resource and I have included the following time stamps for your ease of reference: Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 01:25 - The Art of Landscape Looking 01:36 - The Challenge of Landscape Painting 03:32 - Subject Familiarity 07:32 - Colour 09:07 - Drama 10:00 - Detail - Shapes - Contrast 14:29 - Stories 15:50 - A Walk Down the Lane 16:55 - Landscape Looking ’Gears’ 17:57 - 1st Gear - Inspiration 18:59 - 2nd Gear - Observation 20:00 - 3rd Gear - Presentation - 4th Gear - Modification 29:27 - Sussex 34:21 - Dorset 37:39 - Summary