Peter Inglis on China
An interview I did with Channel Chinese regarding Sino-Australian relations.
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An interview I did with Channel Chinese regarding Sino-Australian relations.
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Remember Cezanne's three basic shapes?
When we add a 3rd dimension (depth) to these shapes we get:
This video shows us how to realistically place eyes and a mouth on a pumpkin, and rotate it in any direction.
Perspective tricks that work: Spheres and pumpkins
A fantastic video from the master of perspective - Marshall Vandruff. This is the guy I talk about in most classes who teaches perspective with chalk and a blackboard.
This is one of my sketches from a Van Gogh Sunflowers session.
"Sunflowers ?? !! ?? ", I hear you exclaim!
Here is the sketch and the original Van Gogh.
Aha! Hopefully you are saying "aha!" about now.
Can you see that it is an abstract version of the painting? All good painting and drawing is based on abstraction. Our brain interprets the world via abstractions.
So this is a compositional sketch. I am looking for:
This process is explained in my book: How to Sketch Shapes.
Inglis Code #874
As you paint, your palette should develop colours according to this graph.
We use the 3 properties of colour to define and mix them: 1. Hue. 2. Tone. 3. Chroma.
Put the high chroma colours (straight from the tube) on the outside.
As we mix colours, the chroma decreases and we move toward the centre.
I talk about 'style' in each lesson as we study Monet, Van Gogh and Cezanne, who all have very distinctive styles.
In this video Nahre Sol plays 'Mary had a little lamb' in the styles of about a dozen great composers.
There are plenty of labels and visual cues to help you follow the ideas. Enjoy!
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The video is played by Nahre Sol (Alice Gi-Young Hwang), a young pianist and composer. She likes to combine improvisation with traditional Western form and harmony. She completed her undergraduate studies in 2013 at The Juilliard School and did further composition study in Paris. www.nahresol.com
Please give her video a 'like'!