Are you an artist? Want to become an artist? Want to be a better artist?

Are you a botanical artist, do you aspire to be a painter still life, a painter of bar scenes, a science fiction or manga artist or a seascape painter? Some people know of other and birth are found in their years later (ie, Grandma Moses in his 70's). Some students learn on their own, or go to an art school for four years, some prefer to take an art class or a course in art from time to time. Others teach themselves using art textbooks, videos of art or work with other artists and learn from each other.

Fighting for their art, some complain that we need better brushes. Some art teachers say they "put a little blue here." It is not the brushes. Verify that the light could be better at that painting or drawing, and not just blue goes here. What's missing some art education is an understanding of visual fundamentals that underlie all good paint.

Here is a list of foundations that underpin the quality of drawing and painting.

1. DESIGN: Study and practice development. Keep a blank notebook with you and draw artist everything you see. Study books about drawing and practice, practice, practice.

2. METHOD: understanding that any underlying form. An area behind an apple or an orange. A cylinder behind the trunk of a tree. An egg-shaped base of the human head … and so on.

3. LIGHT AND SHADOW: How an object changes its appearance through its surface depends on the light (s) to strike, the underlying form and "local color" of the object. For example: "Let's paint" a sketch of an orange on a table. If the main light is a warm light (like the sun or a light bulb aa) striking orange in the front and top right of the orange, the colors and values through the orange, from left to right from the spectator point of view are:

– Orange-rich environment
– Sure, a little less orange, a little more towards yellow / white / orange highlight
– Returning to a rich orange stages darker and less intense color to the dark side of the orange
– More and more dark and cooler in the dark side of the orange
– The shades away from light orange are less hot and more to the brown or alizarin crimson orange
– The dark side is clarified in part to the extreme right as stated a bit of light reflected by the table top
– Then there is the shadow of the orange on the table … and so on

4: COMPOSITION: Understand that the paintings are made to study the principles of composition. Your art course (s) or art textbook (s) should include the theory of composition and training.

5. Theory of Color: Color is an important component of the image to study and understand color theory.

6. Perspective: Perspective behind a building, a street or city. In a smaller world, no perspective (both linear and atmospheric) on three fruits and a bottle of wine on a table.

7. STILL LIFE: After learning the basics of numbers1-6, can be applied to a still life.

8. LANDSCAPE: Landscapes may include cityscapes, landscapes of roofs, marinas, etc depending on where you live and what you can access. Design, shape, composition, light and shadow, perspective and color theory of the basis of landscape drawing and painting.

9. Figures, Portraits, people and animals: Some students want to "just painting people "or" just pictures. "Tell him to Leonardo Da Vinci … the Mona Lisa is in front of a landscape. The art education should include rounded anatomical studies of humans and animals, besides the basics.

Let's review the underlying fundamentals of how you can learn to draw and learn to paint. A rounded student needs to study and advance their understanding and skills in:

– Drawing
– Form
– Light and shadow
— Composition
– Color theory
– Outlook
– Still Life
– Landscape, botanists, marine and so on
– Figures, portraits, People and animals
– … and eventually … an understanding of these basics will make any photo better.

As I asked at the beginning of this article, who are you or what you want to be like an artist? You may know what he wants to be like an artist or want to know how to develop their artistic skills. Shakespeare had a rule to keep in mind as you educate yourself in the painting "… This above all: be true to yourself …" (Act 1, Scene III, Hamlet, Polonius to Laertes). You can find your own art while studying the basics step by step.

I had a partner university school of art began copying the comics as a kid. Now travels the world painting and drawing elephants, other animals in nature, tribes of nomads and other exotic themes.

I also worked with a fellow instructor at the famous school of artists who saw the work and career of a great seascape painter and decided that I wanted to do the same. He became a successful seascape with its own art gallery in the Sea My friend seascape could paint a person walking in the beach, with driftwood and foliage, here and there and the choppy sea towards the beach.

Both my friends had to study and absorb the design, shape, light and shade, composition, perspective, color theory, still life, botanical, landscape, figure landscapes, animals and portraits of what could end paint of your dreams.

Learn to draw and learn to paint by learning the basic step by step.

The author has painted and taught for 50 years and has had over 30 art exhibits of his paintings. My USA based online art school has students in 19 countries. I have taught art classes at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and Manhattan, USA, Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, Famous Artists Schools in Westport, Connecticut, USA. I have also lectured on various art subjects all over the USA and in Holland, Belgium, France, South Africa and Australia.

My online interactive art school is at: http://www.interactiveartschool.com

Links to people, images mentioned in article are at: http://www.interactiveartschool.com/linksEzine.html

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