Landscape ideas
From ancient times through to contemporary works the landscape has meant a great deal for art and artists. how artists interpret the landscape is as varied as chalk and cheese from abstract concepts and emotions through to highly realistic scenes.
Many artists are inspired not just by their shapes and forms on the landscape but by colours and textures as well. For an artist starting out the chance to explore landscape ideas can seem rather daunting I hope some of the concepts I put forward might give you some great starting points.
- landscape can include many things, the urban landscape, seascapes, rural landscape and the industrial landscape. Try picking one, which is close to you and then explore it perhaps with a camera, if you took lots of photos see if you can pick out the top five, then ask yourself what makes these five more interesting than the others?
- Australia is one country where many of the artists were heavily influenced by the landscape to an Internet search on this topic and see what you can find, is there any one style from the many Australian artists working on landscape that you really like? Do some research on that particular style or artist and see which you can find.
- Take a look at the work of artists who simplify the landscape down into a very basic terms perhaps just sky and ground, maybe you can find out more about why they simplified the landscape so much, consider copying one or two of their works perhaps just on paper with coloured pencil.
- Landscape drawing does not need to be realistic, consider exploring more of the “essence” of landscape or the bare basics of it in some drawings.
- Students of Art using an art journal or a visual diary of some kind, may find it useful to jot down ideas when looking at landscape, it may be what the weather was like, temperature was like, how they felt and whether the scene was something really captivating or not, as well as doing some drawings or photographs.
- If you take mainly photographs of the landscape consider doing some drawings as well. And if you do mainly drawings of the landscape consider doing some photographs. Compare the difference.
- The way Artists tackle the landscape can vary from abstract to realistic and lots in between, consider what would be the difference between a leisure or hobby painter doing a landscape, and a contemporary artist doing the landscape and what sorts of things might be different?
Okay there’s a few ideas you might like to try to get started in landscapes, I think you may find the more you do landscapes to more engrossing it will become… enjoy!
Here are a few websites you may like to explore to learn more about the ways artists have explored the landscape as a concept or theme.
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