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MARCH NEWSLETTER PART TWOHere is an assignment, which will help to reinforce what you learned in the lesson (see this month’s newsletter Part 1).

ASSIGNMENT - COLOR MAPSTIME

2 hours. 12 studies of 10 minutes each.PURPOSE

The purpose of this assignment is to help you learn to see color accurately. This is essential for developing color harmony in your paintings.WHAT TO DO

1. Set up your easel outdoors, anywhere, and look in any direction.

2. Paint a color map of the four or five shapes you see. Choose shapes that are touching each other. You have ten minutes tomatch the color as precisely as you can. After ten minutes, stop this color map.

3. Turn around and look in another direction at some different shapes.

4. Paint another color map.

5. At the same spot, repeat until you can see no more interesting groups of colors.

TIPS

• It is often a good idea to zoom in close to a part of a distant scene, or to look at something very close to you.• You may look for saturated color spots against grayed color spots.• Alternatively, look for areas that have shapes close together with analogous colors. For example find an area where there

are a variety of greens of different temperatures. Or a family of reds, such as crimsons and red oranges.Example

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WORKING THROUGH THE MATERIALSThere are two main ways to use the Virtual Art Academycourse materials:

• Work sequentiallyYou can work sequentially all the way through the completecourse. Allow yourself three years. See the Full Course –Years one, two and three. The Beginner Course is the firstyear of this program.

• Build your own custom learning pathAlternatively you can diagnose your major problems firstand then focus on particular assignments to fix those prob-lems. Allow yourself two to six months per category ofcourse units (for example each of the categories, design andcomposition, observation, form, color, drawing, notan,etc.). See Custom Learning Paths One to Four. If you are abeginner or you are unsure of your foundation, then the bestoption is to do the full course in sequence. If you find youalready know a topic, you can skip over it and move on tothe next topic. If you are a professional artist, than choosea custom learning path.

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BOOKS AND ITEMS OF INTEREST

CHAGALL

Colorful dreams and tales. Chagall'sworld full of everyday miracles. TheBelarusian painter Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is widely regarded as epitomiz-ing the “painter as poet”. The world-wide admiration he commandedremains unparalleled by any artist of thecentury. Chagall's paintings, steeped inmythology and mysticism, portray col-orful dreams and tales that are deeplyrooted in his Russian Jewish origins.

The memories and yearning they evoke recall his nativeVitebsk, and the great events that mark the life of ordinary peo-ple: birth, love, marriage and death. They tell of a world full ofeveryday miracles - in the room of lovers, on the streets ofVitebsk, beneath the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Heaven and earthseem to meet in a topsy-turvy world in which whimsical figuresof people and animals float through the air with gravity-defyingserenity. Buy it from Amazon US Buy it from Amazon UK

CARLSON'S GUIDE TO LANDSCAPE PAINTING

The whys and hows of the variousaspects of landscape painting: anglesand consequent values, aerial and lin-ear perspective, painting of trees, emo-tional properties of line and mass incomposition, light, unity of tone, plusinformation on canvas, palette,brushes, more. 34 black-and-whitereproductions of paintings by Carlson.58 explanatory diagrams.

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Barry John Raybould Plein Air Painting Workshops 2013

Workshop Locations and Dates, Tuscany, Italy• September 09-13, 2013 Workshop for all levels: beginners, intermediates, and experienced• September 14-18, 2013 For advanced Virtual Art Academy students

SummaryThe painting workshop will be held in the beautiful region of Tuscany knownas Lunigiana. This region of Tuscany includes mountain as well as pastoralscenery and is also near one of the most beautiful stretches of coastline in thewhole of Italy, known as the Cinque Terre region. There is a lot of interestingsubject matter to visit, study and paint: from hilltowns and castles, to vineyardsand olive groves, to mountains and fishing villages. We will work outdoorsplein air, and tailor the course to meet your individual needs. This year therewill be two consecutive workshops. For more information and to register, visit:

my Tuscany Workshop Blog

Spaces are limited, so enroll now to make sure you have a place.

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