How to paint a Summer Landscape without Blue & Green Pigments | Using the Apelles Palette Outdoors | The Cave of Apelles

Jan-Ove Tuv observes as Sebastian Salvo paints a landscape outdoors.

In this video you will learn about:

  • Getting blue color from white and black pigments
  • The “watercolour” start
  • Using the ground as an integral colour
  • Marrying empirical studies with poetry
  • Importance of cool vs warm in achieving volume
  • What being “detailed” actually means
  • How a rhythmic approach allows you to grasp the totality
  • Choosing focal point based on the rhythm in the landscape
  • The role of horizontal and vertical strokes
  • The glory of grey
  • How nature always composes according to the X-principle
  • Thinking in repetitions

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  • Apelles was asked why he touched and retouched his pictures with so much care, to which he replied:
    "I paint for eternity"