Way Beyond Straight Lines! PAINTING ARCHITECTURE WITH PASSIO It’s About What the Light (or Weather) Is Doing to the Building ~ “Play of Light’is the mostimportant aspect in all representational painting. View (or shoot) the building in good light usta 10 AM or after 4PM. + You want the sun coming from your left or right, NOT from behind you or behind the building. rybody can sce the sun hitting the building, YOU show them whatit bounces onto. * Ifthe weathers lousy (no sun) then invent good light make it rainy 8 atmosperic OR sunny ~ (The diffe i dark side ofa building is 5 steps on a gray-scale.) IOX= the sunny side of building, then Y = the shady side of building, etc Get dark with TRANSPARENT PAINTS (lots of medium) and light with OPAQUES. Its About Texture — Both the real texture of the building and — even more ~ the texture of the paint and brush st ae your textures car areflly sn Smooth versus busy. It’s About Color ~ Literal and Invented ¢ Ifthe sun is warm, then the shadows are cool. + Build up colors by painting layers of transparent and translucent color. ¢ Let the colors of your building spill out into the background and vice versa. + Be playful -noto with your colors. Its About Mystery / Intrigue~ What is left unsaid may be more important than what is spelled out. It's About the Composition — How the building fits in the frame. BEWARE the Donut Hole Syndrome- BUT THIS IS THE PART YOU MUST GET RIGHT: PERSPECTIVE. TWO ways to do that: ae 1) Learn and understand the*math” Fo 2) OBSERVE CAREFULLY. 9 Here's a good trick: visualize the hands on a clock ~ 8