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Painting into the Light - Jenny Aitken

Painting into the Light

How to Work Atmospheric Magic with Your Oil Paints

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
160 Seiten
2024
Search Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80092-127-6 (ISBN)
CHF 38,90 inkl. MwSt
Work artistic magic with contre-jour: learn how to create the illusion of light in your oil painting.
Reknowned for her techniques for painting light on water, Jenny Aitken delivers perfect guidance to the intermediate artist on how to paint light in plein air and much more.



Learn how to successfully paint scenes that that capture magical effects of light from behind the subject. Good contre-jour – painting into the light – artworks cause the viewer to squint, with light seeming to glow from the canvas. They can look like a kind of magic, with their hazy light and colour singing out. This book demystifies lighting in oils, and provides a practical guide to the process, showing exactly how to create the illusion.



Inside, you'll find a wealth of information on simplification, tonal control, capturing accurate colour, working both indoors and outdoors, painting landscapes and still life, creating atmospheric depth, and even mastering the illusion of space. Through detailed step-by-step demonstrations and beautifully illustrated techniques, Jenny Aitken reveals how to infuse every painting with vibrant, lifelike light. A section on troubleshooting tricky paintings will show the reader every painting is salvageable, but with an understanding of light and colour, it’s much more likely that they’ll find success the first time round.

For Jenny Aitken, teaching painting is an absolute passion – her main aim is for students to be encouraged, informed and creatively enthused. She began tutoring and demonstrating ten years ago, and now runs online courses and art holidays around the UK and in Italy and France. Since graduation in Art & Art History from seaside university Aberystwyth, she has exhibited all over the UK and won many awards. She was elected an associate member of the RSMA in 2021, and won the Topbond Marine Award in 2022. She is currently represented by several galleries, including The Harbour Gallery in Cornwall and Peter Barker Gallery in Rutland. You can also view and purchase daily studies, paintings, prints, calendars and cards from her own online gallery on www.jennyaitken.co.uk Jenny is a regular contributor to The Artist Magazine, and an online tutor, with a series of 25+ modules on painting in oils and acrylics. She also produces shorter painting videos on YouTube. Jenny lives in Derbyshire, not far from the beautiful Peak District.  

Foreword 6

Introduction 8

How best to capture light 12

Exercise: Tonal seascape28

Where to start 32

The Sparkling Ocean – stage-by-stage54

Simplification 72

Portrait – stage-by-stage78

Woodland – stage-by-stage92

Painting en plein air 100

Sparkle on Water – stage-by-stage106

Still Life – stage-by-stage114

Atmosphere 122

Exercise: Cold distance126

Mountains – stage-by-stage130

Impact 136

Mevagissey Harbour – stage-by-stage138

Brush Language 146

Oystercatcher – stage-by-stage152

Afterword 158

Index 160

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 300 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort Tunbridge Wells
Sprache englisch
Maße 216 x 280 mm
Gewicht 686 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Malerei / Plastik
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Malen / Zeichnen
ISBN-10 1-80092-127-6 / 1800921276
ISBN-13 978-1-80092-127-6 / 9781800921276
Zustand Neuware
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