Landscape Painting: Artists

Emily Carr (Canadian)

In Emily Carr`s paintings I noticed there is flow of wavy lines, the leaves in the tree for the picture on the top and the sky for the picture on the bottom. This ties in with my landscape picture because I have to make my street wavy and from looking at these 2 paintings it shows a great example of how to incorporate that. To do this in my painting, I will have to use long brush strokes which will start from one side of the road and extend to the other, when I paint that line I will have to make it wavy.

Also, I noticed in Emily Carr`s landscape painting above, the tree`s trunk is not brown and the sky is not entirely blue. This shows we do not have to paint the colours that first come to mind when we think of a specific object. For my painting many of the objects I have that are below the horizon are dark (road, mountains on each side) if I paint it the natural colour that comes to mind my landscape will be too dull, therefore, looking at Emily Carr`s colours I can make them different colours to liven the painting up and create a new perspective to that object. To do that I will make the road different shades of blue/grey, and for the mountain I will make the bottom layer brown and paint in lighter shades of different colours, hopefully that will not make the painting seem as dull.

Etienne Allegrain (International)
1644-1736
French Painter

Whats interesting about Mr. Allegrain's paintings is that his lines meet/vanish at the horizon. In the painting on the top the line that extends farthest out, curves around the trees and then disappears. In my landscape that is exactly what I have to do, my road has to disappear behind the mountain on the right. To do this, I will have to make the line disappear once it touches the mountain to give the impression that it has curved around.

Also, I noticed in the painting on the top the sky graduates from a dark blue to a light blue, it creates a nice affect and my painting also has the same technique, In my painting I start light and then go to an almost blackish blue. I used small strokes and made blocks of different shades of blue, then I blended the sides together so the viewers eye can easily flow from the lightest shade to the darkest.