Norah Halstead – From Brush to Canvas – A Journey through the world of Landscape Painting for Artistic Souls
Norah discusses the different types of landscape painting, some of the tools required, a few ideas of marketing your finished paintings, and more.
This is a good introduction to the importance of deciding what you want to DO with your paintings – whether your aim is to paint realistic versions of what you see in front of you at a particular point in time, or an impressionistic version that brings out the emotion and atmosphere of an area, whether you prefer desert, mountains, cities, oceans, and the importance of paying attention to the wonder of the world around you.
She concentrates on really taking the time to SEE and appreciate – the time of day, the light and shadows, the textures, colors, the mixture of ‘scapes,’ such as a coastal city and the differences in techniques and pallets that requires, whether to include people or not.
An overview of the subject, trying to get you to pick up your brushes and dive in, not being afraid to experiment in trying to express your impressions of the world around you.
My initial reaction to reading this is to decide I like ‘impressionism’ and that I personally wouldn’t like to do ‘plein air’ painting because I would be embarrassed to be out where people might come and want to see what I was doing. Since I would be embarrassed that my painting wouldn’t look a THING like what I was obviously trying to paint, I would want to be sucked down into the earth. I would much rather work from a photo or other image of some kind, and I like the idea of going for an emotion or atmosphere, rather than realism.
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