Painting & Drawing Concepts

  • Thomas Eakins
  • Swimming (The Swimming Hole)
  • 1885
  • oil on canvas
  • 27 3/8 x 36 3/8 inches
  • Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth
Index

Index of Concepts & Examples

  1. Gesture
  2. Chiaroscuro
  3. Notan
  4. Imprimatura
  5. Grisaille
  6. Blocking In
  7. Ellipses
  8. Cross-Contour
  9. Golden Ratio, Rabatment, Rule of Thirds
  10. Disegno
  11. Building form with Planes
  12. Preparatory Drawings for a Painting
  13. Human form through Planes (head and body)
  14. Linear Perspective
  15. Atmospheric Perspective
  16. Reflected Light
  17. Elements of Design : Shape
  18. Keep it Simple
  19. Edges
  20. Clouds and Perspective
  21. Water and Perspective
  22. In Person
  23. Touch
  24. Alla Prima

Color

  1. Color Theory
  2. Color Temperature
  3. Complementary Colors
  4. Analogous Colors
  5. How Wayne Thiebaud uses color
  6. Cennini System
  7. Sfumato (Leonardo)
  8. Cangiantismo (Michelangelo)
  9. Unione (Raphael)
  10. The Zorn Palette
  11. Color Zones of the Face
  12. Color Mixing : Say no to White and Black, Three tubes every time, Color Temperature and Mixing
  13. Color Gamut (limited palette).