Plein Air Techniques for Artists by Aimee Erickson

Author:Aimee Erickson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Quarto Group
Published: 2023-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

TECHNIQUE:

CUTTING IN

Cutting in means putting the foreground shape in first and then refining its shape with the lighter background: painting the sky after the tree. There are a couple of good reasons to consider cutting in. It reflects general-to-specific thinking: You can generalize the tree shapes (or buildings, or a portrait subject’s hair, or whatever the thing is) and then define them with the background (rather than hitting your edges from both sides—not a painterly approach). It allows complexity and connectedness in foreground shapes without complexity in paint quality. It also makes sense when the background is much lighter than the object because paint more thinly applied describes shadow and opaque impasto paint describes light.

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