![]() So, but basically, you're trying to set the stage and create the atmosphere with the ground.įigure is the easiest one. So it can be the surface of the picture plane or it can be an actual, literal ground mark where you can see grass and sky. Within the picture plane we're going to use a ground and a figure.The ground within the picture plane is actually where we're setting the stage. But it's the flat space you use to create a world or to create an image. It's a fancy word for a two dimensional image, so it's a square or a rectangle, it could be a circle. I thought, Oh, my God, once I came up with these characters that I drew-which were little men in sweatsuits- I thought, Jesus, I could use these guys to tell any story I ever want to. I had a narrative that lasted ten years so I remember when I finally came up with figure and ground as my way of expressing myself. And that's been very important with my work. And I call myself a landscape artist all the time I wish I'd painted so I could just say landscape painter, that makes more sense.īut, um, you know, it's just just about reflecting what's around you. So I started to draw a lot, and then I was just always, always in art classes. Not paint by numbers, you actually have the little canvas and copy what the magazine says. So my grandmother got all of her grandkids together when we would see her on the weekends, spread out newspapers on the dining room or kitchen table.Īnd she would not.you would think that that would be "Oh, and then we finger painted," or something, cause this was when I was five years old, or maybe four, we started this.īut we did oil painting, so very Bob Ross like, you know. I started basically what most people know of as landscape, or what do they call it, Sunday painting, is what I.that's how I was really trained. Hi, I'm Robyn O'Neil and this is your art assignment. John: Yeah, and today she's going to talk to us about how to think about landscape, both the ones that we can see and the ones we have to imagine. Sarah: Robyn makes monumentally scaled graphite drawings and she considers herself a landscape artist. Of course we are also in LA because we are visiting with an artist, Robyn O'Neil. ![]() John: Yeah, so we've brought you up here so that you can see a landscape, the beautiful city of Los Angeles. Sarah: Today's art assignment is all about landscape. Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams: Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)Īnd follow her on twitter! learn more about The Art Assignment: Īlbert Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, 1863, collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Populate the ground with figures and give them human-like characteristics.ĥ. Get a piece of paper and something to draw withģ. In which Los Angeles-based artist Robyn O'Neil challenges you to draw a psychological landscape.ġ. Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here:
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