It wasn't until a while after I had watched this video that I realized something about quite a few of Cooper's cityscapes. With most painters, their city scenes are painted from a street level point of view. Cooper often executes his from an elevated point of view, as if he's standing on a balcony about 5-10 floors up or from a studio window at that level. If you look carefully at the perspective lines, you'll see what I mean. He's looking down and outward at the city scene before him.
He started a painting with an outline drawing as accurate as possible, but when it came to the colors he changed them a lot in subtle ways to make it really interesting and fresh looking. He didn't seem to care about fancy or impressive brushwork. He just wanted that beautiful coloration effect.
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It wasn't until a while after I had watched this video that I realized something about quite a few of Cooper's cityscapes. With most painters, their city scenes are painted from a street level point of view. Cooper often executes his from an elevated point of view, as if he's standing on a balcony about 5-10 floors up or from a studio window at that level. If you look carefully at the perspective lines, you'll see what I mean. He's looking down and outward at the city scene before him.
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He started a painting with an outline drawing as accurate as possible, but when it came to the colors he changed them a lot in subtle ways to make it really interesting and fresh looking. He didn't seem to care about fancy or impressive brushwork. He just wanted that beautiful coloration effect.
He was definitely a colorist suggesting the light