Video Course: California Cityscapes
Video Course: California Cityscapes
In this course you will follow Keiko Tanabe’s process as she paints Plein Air in San Diego to help you develop an eye that sees the world as an artist and innately understands the optimal structure of landscape compositions.
When you can “see” as an artist from the onset of the creative process, you will be able to make better design choices along the way.
In this course you will learn to:
- Display the basic composition of an urban scene
- Use value relationships to compose your work
- Capture mood with vibrant colors
- Simplify a complex scene
- Choose a theme and use it to design a painting
- Quickly sketch figures to create a painting that tells a unique story
This course contains two demonstrations and is open to students of all levels.
Keiko's teaching philosophy: Each artist travels a different journey. It is a unique path where each artist must decide where to go and how to get there. In 2005 I started my journey as a primarily self-taught artist. What it means is that I never had any teacher demonstrate or explain things beyond the basic techniques which I learned mostly by practicing and experimenting on my own. That is one way of learning. However, I believe students will learn faster and gain more satisfaction if they work with someone with a trained eye and sincere passion to help and motivate them. I started another journey as a teacher in 2011 to be that someone. My approach to teaching is to help students identify and solve their problems to further advance their technical skills and refine their style so that their whole experience as an artist will be even more enriched.
