Two-part Workshop based on the landscape sketches of Camille Corot, (French, 1796-1875) an important figure in the “Plein Air” movement in the mid-1800s. As a trained neo-classicist, Corot’s Plein Air works presaged “impressionism” by breaking with tradition in working outdoors on small works as the basis for larger studio work. Our workshop begins with a brief look of his sketches on paper, paying keen attention to the stylistic variations used in the depiction of singular objects in a landscape (rocks, trees, mountains) and the more complex, multi-object compositions suggesting distance and atmosphere with the use of line, mass and tone. Our Catskills landscapes are ideal locations to reinterpret Corot’s approach to drawing the Italian and French countryside.
PART 1: Dry Media Greyscale (All Levels) DRAWING OBJECTS IN NATURE
PART 2: Dry or Wet Media Greyscale (All Levels) COMPOSITION
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