I know the rain is dreary, especially when our moods are pulled by pandemic, isolation, news. But the rain has rinsed the pollen from the air, and for that I am thankful.
In class on Tuesday, Fran O’Neill shared a few of her favorite landscape paintings. She showed the Van Gogh above, one I haven’t seen before. How could I not have seen this?? It’s instantly one of my favorites.
Vincent van Gogh, Rain, 1889
In these, Van Gogh has a way of describing rain in a way that creates mood, movement, and atmosphere, darkening the sky and slicing through the space. The angled lines are direct and descriptive. I relate Van Gogh’s depiction of rain with these straight diagonal lines to the rain in Ukiyo-e and Hiroshige’s prints. You can see Van Gogh’s copy of a Hiroshige below.
Hiroshige/ Vincent van Gogh
For a creative challenge today: depict rain in a scene with a repetition of parallel and crisp diagonal lines. The lines can be all coming in a single angle, or in two or more angles, to suggest wind. Give it a scribble and post to social media with #seattleartistleague #rain.
Viewing things on the internet, sometimes I don’t know which photograph is more accurate for color….
I’ve posted about rain before in V. Notes. Here are three:
[image_with_animation image_url=”6592″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] October Creative Challenge The last 30 day creative challenge was so delightful, I thought it might be time to do another. Today I launch the October Creative Challenge! WANNA DRAW? You can challenge yourself to do all 30 challenges, 5 a week, or whatever floats your boat. I know …
Yesterday I posted an introduction to the most unusual art class I’ve ever been a part of. I talked about Cezanne’s approach to recording a scene by using short lines distributed across the page, and how this can be used to integrate abstraction, time, space, and movement in a piece. One of the students in …
My email inbox has been slow lately. Everyone must be getting ready for the holiday. There is a pile of Christmas presents that need to get wrapped. They’re blocking the door of my apartment, and spilling into the recycling bin. It’s a delightful mess, all the little contained and uncontainable bits. I said goodbye to …
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Van Gogh’s Rain
I know the rain is dreary, especially when our moods are pulled by pandemic, isolation, news. But the rain has rinsed the pollen from the air, and for that I am thankful.
In class on Tuesday, Fran O’Neill shared a few of her favorite landscape paintings. She showed the Van Gogh above, one I haven’t seen before. How could I not have seen this?? It’s instantly one of my favorites.
In these, Van Gogh has a way of describing rain in a way that creates mood, movement, and atmosphere, darkening the sky and slicing through the space. The angled lines are direct and descriptive. I relate Van Gogh’s depiction of rain with these straight diagonal lines to the rain in Ukiyo-e and Hiroshige’s prints. You can see Van Gogh’s copy of a Hiroshige below.
For a creative challenge today: depict rain in a scene with a repetition of parallel and crisp diagonal lines. The lines can be all coming in a single angle, or in two or more angles, to suggest wind. Give it a scribble and post to social media with #seattleartistleague #rain.
Viewing things on the internet, sometimes I don’t know which photograph is more accurate for color….
I’ve posted about rain before in V. Notes. Here are three:
Hiroshige’s Rain
Hiroshige’s Rainy Moments
Rainy Moments in Art
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