Landscape Sketching with Nathan Fowkes: Backlit Sunset Scene
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- Опубліковано 4 тра 2015
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Landscape Sketching is synonymous with Nathan Fowkes. In this 20-minute video tutorial, environment artist Nathan Fowkes breaks down his personal process for sketching landscapes en plein air. Learn how to capture the energy and vibrancy of a sunset and instills its natural beauty into a simple and affecting watercolor and gouache painting.
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Lovely painting and awesome instruction, thank you!
Since I watched Nathan Fowkes's composition course, I started to paint outdoor. It is really fun and as fun as it is, it is really hard too. This video helped me to know how he actually painted like that outdoor. Thank you !! very inspiring
Wow! I loved this and I loved Nathan’s journal sketch! Although I heard him say it would take less time than you might think to start having fun with this method .. I also heard the “trillion” practice reference. That said, the interweaving of warm and cool is so apparent in this beautiful painting and it just sings! I love how Nathan said that if you are getting mud, you might be having a temperature range problem.
Fantastic artist and thank you for sharing!
I really love Nathan's paintings, but I don't particularly enjoy his method of teaching. I have his books and I do like them, but he seems to leave important informations out of his lessons. I had a teacher like this in art school, it was almost like he didn't wanted you to "discover his secret", which is fine for an artist, but kind of disappointing for a teacher. Again, amazing artist. This video was very nice, because with your direction I think the teaching went to another level. Thank you for the interview
This is excellent stuff. I'm always extremely impressed with the way Nathan Fowkes, but also James Gurney are able to get truly realistic lighting going. In case of Nathan Fowkes it looks so deceivingly simple, when it's obviously difficult.
PHeMoX 30 minutes too!
Awesome video! Thank you for sharing, Bobby.
Wow, the master. Thanks so much for doing this interview Bobby :)
cr0uchingtiger youre welcome!
Amazing to see Nathan discuss his outdoor watercolour work. Been following it for a long time and always wanted to hear a bit more about his process. Would love a class on it. Thanks =)
Mathias J I would love a class on it too! I'm going to try the watercolor tubes with no water
Mathias J.....you know he has a course just on this at Schoolism? I took it and it was fantastic! Taught me a massive amount.
Awesome.
great stuff !! well done:)
Hello, I subscribed to schoolism courses and it has been amazing. But, it would be really nice if there is any speed function for videos.
Apprenticeship class to mastery.
I downloaded the material list, but I have a question, the watercolors he recommends are tubes or pans ? Thank you :)
tubes
does anybody have the materials link? I cant seem to open the link in the description
Sorry about that! Here's the new link to download the materials list: s3.amazonaws.com/imaginismstudios.com/Landscape-sketching-materials.pdf
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I’m confused a bit. He says the deep shadows are warm but I keep hearing that shadows are cool colors.
He is talking about the very very darkest of shadows, the blacks basically. All other shadows are cool. The warm sunlight doesn't reach into these areas, only the cold indirect light from the sky does. But the very darkest of darks are areas where almost no light gets in, and the little bounce light that gets in apparently gets warmed up. I didn't know this either. Keep in mind also that these rules of thumb apply only for a daylight outdoor situation.
There's no rule for shadows being always being cool. The temperature and color of your shadows would directly depend on the temperature of the light. For instance, in clear daytime outdoor light conditions, shadows would tend towards the cooler (bluer-purpler etc) hues. But under artificial indoor lighting shadows would be much warmer (brownish warm grays). All of this is of course further complicated by the local color of the forms said shadows and light are falling on. He started this video by saying that the forms themselves (in this case grass) are really warm in color but the light was cool - so the local color changes based on the temperature of the light.
Great video ! But I am not ok at all when you talk about the tone of shadows. There are a lot of different cases in real life (urban or natural landscapes for example) where shadows are blueish or get another cold color, so telling the opposite seems wrong to me. If there is so many exceptions then this rule of warm tones for shadows is not right. But thank you for this video, it is very inspiring anyway :)
I realise that this is from a year ago but I feel your pain as I struggle also trying to take this all in and then apply to real life situations.
That said, from what I understand, I think firstly, he's talking about warm shadows on warm local coloured objects and I suspect he's referring to contact or the deepest shadows.
I think that if the objects are already a cool colour then the shadows will also be cooler.
Secondly, the reason you often get a cool accent to shadows (which you see in a lot of paintings) is the influence of blue light from the sky. You see this in some of Nathan's work; the further away from the object casting the shadow, the more the cool blue light starts to influence the colour of it.
I've seen it quite a few times in his work although this is the only example I can find with a quick search...www.nathanfowkesart.com/2006/11/we-had-great-time-at-landscape.html
Notice on the top image the shadow on the path in the middle cast by the trees.
Close to the trees it's tilting towards warm but as you get further away, it's starting to be illuminated by the sky light and hence a hint of cool blue is apparent.
Hope that helps, I'm no expert so could be totally off the mark on this.
You also might want to check out Marco Bucci's Understanding Shadow colours tutorials here on YT, I think you find them very useful.
hold on a sec, watercolours in thick layers straight out of tubes?! Why not gouache then instead? This is really confusing and really unexpected!
+oliveuk He uses white gouache with watercolor to keep the watercolors thick
+oliveuk I quit gouache outdoors (except for white) because it's too difficult to re-wet in hot, dry conditions after it dries out on the palette unlike watercolors. But I still sometimes paint with more opacity as if it were gouache.
A tutorial is not just to talk, that's nothing educational. Nothing is learned nothing at all. More action and fewer words. Excuseme Prof. Nathan.
Ok obviously this is not a full-on tutorial, Jesus Christ. It's a podcast. If you want real tutorials then take Nathan's classes on Schoolism.
The sense of entitlement is appalling.
Bobby considers it a tutorial