With almost 3 hours of video instruction, this mini workshop we will be exploring light. We will look at various scenarios the landscape painter might encounter outdoors and look at why lighting is so important when deciding what to paint. I will show you what to consider in order to capture the 6 most common lighting conditions and demonstrate them for you. We will start out painting in value studies, as this is the key to communicating the affects of different light convincingly. For the second part of the workshop we will delve into both color and value. 

Using a value scale, we can effectively simplify the painting process and paint any lighting condition we want. It is vital to understand that each condition has its own unique set of value ranges. I will show you how to approach this in my demonstrations in a clear and understandable way. We will look at and paint sun light, overcast light, diffused light, moon light, front light and back light. 

In this demo I will show you step by step how to approach the same scene under the different lighting conditions of Sun Light, Overcast Light & Diffused Light. 

In this continuation of the first set of exercises, I will show you step by step how to approach the same scene painted under the lighting conditions of Moon Light, Back Light and Front Light.

Understanding how our eyes see is important to the landscape painter. This section will explore some of the science about how our eyes work, why the sky looks blue and various other facts that help us to understand how to approach landscape painting. 

In this demo I will paint the same scene from the previous exercises, but I will think in terms of both value and color. I will be painting Diffused Light for this demo. 

Some final thoughts!