Professor Medina's Drawing I class at Mountain View College Final drawing: Landscape

1. Impressionism and Landscape
• Impressionism, the Impressionists: a style or
movement in painting originating in France in the
1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the
visual impression of the moment, especially in terms
of the shifting effect of light and color.
• Focus on Light, capture an “impression” of the
landscape
• Characterized by loose strokes of paint, no blending
• Artists: Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec

2. Claude Monet

3. Claude Monet

4. Van Gogh

5. Vincent Van Gogh

8. Your Final Drawing
• MVC campus, exterior landscape study
• Soft pastels or oil pastels, color
• Polychromatic (open palette)
• Trees, colors of fall, creek, water, rock
• Atmospheric Perspective: background, middle
ground, and foreground
• Outdoors or inside (sit on bridge)
• If inside use protective measures to keep area
clean, paper underneath you

9. Student Examples
At Mountain View College

20. Internet examples
Notice application of pastel, mark
making, tree trunks, water and use of
various colors