我们身边的印象派画家
理解印象派绘画技法的最佳方式，便是亲临真实的自然风景前加以模仿。在八年级学生的课堂上，我们将印象派风景画与我们本地自然环境中的风景进行了对比。遗憾的是，我们无法真正体验“外光写生”（en plein air）的创作方式：由于课时太短，我们不可能前往乡野，等待合适的天气与光线来绘制一幅真实的风景画。取而代之的是，我们先拍摄了周边自然风景的照片，再让学生依据这些照片，运用印象派技法进行临摹创作。我们生活在意大利北部特伦托省的梅佐隆巴尔多（Mezzolombardo），一座风景宜人的小镇，秋季的色彩尤为绚丽。我为学生设计了清晰的作画步骤，以达成绘制一幅印象派风景画的目标：
1. 依据照片勾勒风景的主要轮廓线；我们刻意省略图像中的细节，只聚焦于各大色块区域。
2. 用颜料平涂各主要色块，并尽量模仿原照片中每一区域的主色调。
3. 以快速、厚重、短促的笔触填涂彩色区域，旨在捕捉对象的本质神韵、营造视觉印象，而非深入刻画细节。我们还尝试运用“分色法”（broken color）：例如，一块棕色区域可由红、蓝、黄等纯色笔触并置而成，远观即呈棕色；我们力求使用未经调和的纯色直接作画。
下方展示了创作过程各阶段、完成的作品，以及部分学生作品旁所附的实景照片。
Our local Impressionists
The best way to understand the Impressionist’s technique is to imitate it, in front of a real natural landscape. With students of grade 8th, we compared the Impressionist’s landscapes with the landscapes of our own natural enviroment. Unfortunately we can’t experience the “en plain air” painting: our lessons are so short that is impossible go out in the countryside, finding the right weather and the right light, to paint a real landscape. Instead we took some pictures of natural landscape in our surroundings and after that we painted the landscape copying it from pictures with impressionist techniques. We live in Mezzolombardo (Trento), a nice small town in the North of Italy, and the Autumn’s colors were beautiful. I suggested some clear steps to the students, in order to achieve the goal to paint an impressionist landscape:
1.We traced the main lines of the landscape copying them from the picture. We purposely omitted the details of the image, focusing on the main areas of color.
2.we painted the main areas of color, imitating the predominant colors in each area
3.we painted the colored areas with fast, thick and short brush strokes, with the aim to capture the essence of the subject and create an impression, rather than delving on its details. We also tried to use the technique of broken color, which means that a brown can have strokes of red, blue and yellow in it, but will appear brown from a distance. We tried to paint painting strokes of pure unmixed colors.
Here below we can see the work’s steps, the finished paintings, and some photos beside the students’ paintings
