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Cliff Austin - "Landscape Painting in Pastels from Photographs"
Saturday, November 5, 2022 -- 9am - 3pm
First Presbyterian Church of Littleton 
1609 W. Littleton Blvd.
Littleton, CO 80120
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The class included discussing:

The elements and principles of painting.
  •    - Drawing
    ​     accurately
  •    - Demo
       - Lets Paint

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Cliff Austin with his 2022 Plein Air Professional 
​Division 3rd place work, "Stages"
The elements of painting are:
  • Line
  • Direction
  • Shape
  • Size
  • Color
  • Value
  • Texture
The principles of painting:
  • Balance
  • Unity
  • Symmetry
  • Harmony
  • Emphasis
  • Contrast
  • Rhythm 
Focus on just a few elements will help establish a base line to build from.Focus on 3 elements:
  • Shape
  • Value
  • ​Edges
and 3 principles:
  • Contrast
  • Emphasis
  • Rhythm
​>> Download Cliff's Bio
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"Colorful Colorado" 14x18 Oil - $1100
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"Smokey Sky" 16x12 Oil - $850
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"Morning Spilling Over" 16x20 Oil $1350
Process:
  • Paint from darks shapes to establish the first shape (vertical shapes) thin and transparent, then
  • Paint the medium value (flat ground) then the lightest value with the thickest light value paint.
 
This is the starting point. From here you can add to the design / composition / story.
  • Shape – large against small   |
  • Value – light against dark       >   contrast
  • Edge – soft verses hard          |
 
Emphasize the center of interest and add rhythm to make it interesting.
Materials:
  • Several 9x12 or 11x14 Uart 400 paper or panels to paint on. 
    If using paper bring a backing - matt board or drawing support to tape the paper to.

  • Viva paper towels and waste bag to transport used towels and waste.
  • Pastels paints: Primarily, Soft Pastels, anything you have is fine. I recommend Terry Ludwig and Sennelier 30 half stick set and a small set of Hard pastels like Prismacolor NuPastel. Do not go and buy a ton of colors. Just bring what you have.
  • Bring 2-3 panels or pastel paper size 9x12 or 11x14, 2 for you to work on and 1 for a scratch pad