Landscape in Watercolor
Glenn HirschWatercolor Fundamentals
UC Berkeley Extension
next two assignments:paintings using one or all
of these ideas
Sky and TreesAerial PerspectiveLinear Perspective
Aqueous Perspective
to see trees you look up
Kevin Dame, student work
to see trees you look down
leaves have energy
John Singer Sargent
leaves don’t have to be green
trees create a story
Student work
trees thrust out of the ground – they have figurative gesture
Student work
trees thrust out of the ground – they have figurative gesture
Leaves cluster in branches
Each branch has a top (sunlit) and bottom (shadowed)
Trees cast a shadow on the ground beneath them
Student work
Sunlight also comes through the branches (lit from behind)
Student work
Sunlight also comes through the branches (lit from behind)
Student work
In watercolor, you can illustrate the leaves with precise drawing carefully colored-in
Student work
In watercolor, you can suggest the leaves with improvised wet-in-wet blobs of color
atmospheric “aerial”
perspective
This photo illustrates aerial perspective – things far away look duller and lighter compared to the foreground
Linear Perspective
water (aqueous perspective)
John Singer Sargent
next two assignments:paintings using one or all
of these ideas
Sky and TreesAerial PerspectiveLinear Perspective
Aqueous Perspective