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Lesson 4: Learn to paint like TurnerLine: Drafting, sketching, and composing
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Join watercolour expert Mike Chaplin in a short lesson on the fundamentals of painting: line, tone, and colour. In this video, learn about drafting, designing, and establishing rhythm with lines, which are used for more than just describing the shape of things. Many artists, and Turner in particular, would begin with line drawings in order to create a basic description of what their image will eventually become. Created by Tate.
Join watercolour expert Mike Chaplin in a short lesson on the fundamentals of painting: line, tone, and colour. In this video, learn about drafting, designing, and establishing rhythm with lines, which are used for more than just describing the shape of things. Many artists, and Turner in particular, would begin with line drawings in order to create a basic description of what their image will eventually become. Created by Tate.
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During Mike Chaplin's demonstration on drawing the trees along the path and discussing tone and paint and color at4:10in the video, the elements of composition, I wondered how tone and color would affect the details of the drawn lines and what he might suggest in the initial drawing; darker lines drawn with more pressure or lighter more sketchy lines to be sure the further processes would cover up the previous ones?(2 votes)
4:10Video transcript
What we hope to show you in these three short films is the relationship between when an artist places a subject matter, choosing the materials and at the same time struggles with their own temperament on the day. To me it is something that sums up a little feeling about a place or a person or event. Most artists tend to start with a little bit of line drawing, perhaps then tone and colour. We hope in these films to show you those three things: line, tone, colour and relate them back to someof the paintings which are on show in the watercolour exhibition and hope you come away from this with perhaps and understanding of some of the paintings on various different levels of aesthetics, temperament and intellect.