Landscape Paintings
Black, White and
Grey Landscape
Tones and Values
Things to think about, look
for and use:
• Start with simple forms and
shapes - trees, bushes, clouds,
etc.
• Tones: dark, light and inbetween shades.
• Composition: observe how
objects are arranged
The Jack Pine
Tom Thomson
1916
Snowfall from the Painting House
David Milne
1920
Apfelbaume
Gerhard Richter
1987
Peter Doig - White Creep, 1995
Limited Palette Landscape
Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Yellow Light, Black
& White
Things to think about, look for and use:
• Colour mixing: mix a lot, vary greens, use
underpainting, and try not to use paint
straight out of tube.
• Texture: use large brush strokes first and
smaller ones later. Use palette knives, rags
and other tools to make varied textures.
The Turning Road
Andre Derain
1906
Waterlilies and Japanese bridge
Claude-Oscar Monet
1889
Japanese footbridge
Claude-Oscar Monet
1919
YellowWall
Jane Freilicher
1989
seven
James Ridyard
2009
Melissa Doherty
2008
Monica Tap
Grand River
2006
Kim Dorland
Woods
2007
Landscape with Context
Types of Context in Landscape:
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Grandeur, expansiveness, the Sublime.
Humour, fun
Fear, foreboding, danger
Technology contrasted with Nature
Satire, surrealism
Personal experience
Landscape becoming abstract
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Thomas Gainsborough
1749
Monk by the Sea
Caspar David Friedrich
1809
Sunrise with Sea Monsters
Joseph Mallord William Turner
1845
Jack Chambers
Towards London
painting, l968-69
Gas
Edward Hopper
1940
Rick Leong
Heart of Darkness
Le Bonheur de Vivre
Henri Matisse
1906
Old Man's Boat and the Old Man's Dog
Eric Fischl
1980
Country Rock
Peter Doig
1998
Artist and model
Kent Monkman
2003
Karen Kilimnik - Candles Burning, l996
Karen Kilimnik -
Karen Kilimnik - Sheep dogs at my farm
Karen Kilimnik - The Perch
Monica Tap
One Second Hudson
2007
Kim Dorland
Her Favourite Place
2007