Aaron Schuerr | Runtime (96 min)

Embrace the beauty and challenge of the landscape as you learn to create expressive, confident compositions!

Renowned pastelist Aaron Schuerr demonstrates how strong compositional choices not only result in better paintings, but help to express the artist’s unique experience of a place. You’ll start by taking a look at the often-overlooked practice of sketching before moving on to a detailed lesson on diagramming potential ideas. Next, Aaron takes you through examples of common compositional mistakes and demonstrates how to correct them. Finally, you’ll learn how to take your field study and turn it into a plan for a studio painting by sketching with willow charcoal. From initial sketch to final painting, these strategies will keep you on the path to successful compositions!

Some of the pastel techniques you’ll learn include:

Strategies for diagramming rivers and creeks
How to “sneak up on an idea”
Techniques for making changes to a composition without losing the integrity of the place entirely
Tips for using photo references when moving from the field to the studio

Preview Pastel Painting Master Class: Compositions for Landscapes now to see a sneak peek of five insightful composition exercises!

*Note: The color studies done in this video workshop are completed using pastel, but the compositional lessons throughout this video apply to all art media.

Pastel Painting Master Class: Composition for Landscapes

MATERIALS LIST

Drawing

Willow charcoal
Pencil
Grayscale markers
Sharpie
Brush pen
Conté crayon

Pastels

A variety of colors and values

Surface

PastelMat
Canson Mi-Teintes paper
Sketchbook

Other

Strada Easel with foam inserts (for field work)
Best Santa Fe II Easel (for studio work)
Rigid board
Ruler
Stump
Erasers

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Xeni 8/17/2018

Romona 7/1/2018

Simone 2/10/2018

Tina 10/24/2017

Patricia 10/8/2017

Stasia 9/13/2017

Im grateful to artists who share their knowledge with vidio audiences. Thank you for strategic technical organized and studious approach in vidio presentations. Learned a lot! But i had trouble with volume which should be higher. I watch videos on SamsungGalaxy Note.volume setings on my phone are adjusted to highest level yet i have to lean phone on my ear sometimes to hear..

Nancy 7/1/2017

Karen 5/14/2017

DALE 5/13/2017

LINDA 4/21/2017

good video

Greg 4/21/2017

Connie 4/8/2017

Fantastic! He is a wonderful Pastelist and communicates well!

Susan 3/14/2017

Nice presentation, good pace for learning and very detailed instruction on composition and combining sketching in value and abstract from reference photos to achieve a pleasing and believable final painting.

Roslyn 3/11/2017

Leora 3/10/2017

Jo 3/5/2017

Excellent instruction from a professional who helps you think about how to use the plein air experience, sketches and your photos to make the most pleasing compositional choices.

Moira 3/1/2017

A very worthy session. As mainly a watercolourist, who has sometimes integrated a little pastel in my paintings, I wished to try completing a pastel painting in total. This workshop showed me the steps to take, the plan to follow. Not only that, but the instructor explained what not to do and the reasons why. I will follow his plan and am grateful. Moira.

Tamlyn 2/27/2017

Diane 2/25/2017

Excellent video! I really loved how you can learn to explore the composition to express intimacy and mood. I would love to see more videos from this instructor and learn his process of finishing his Pastel in the studio and how he refines his details. Beautiful finished landscapes! Wow!

Sharon 2/25/2017