Eidos
A platform to help you see with fresh eyes
Get the tools you need to get out and see the world again
It all started with the impressionists who took their paints and easel outside and started painting the world around them.
Their process of “plein air” painting not only changed the course of western art, it also changed the way viewers saw the world around them.
Very soon after Impressionism the movements of abstract art, photography and film exploded on the scene. These forms of media transformed our culture and helped usher in modernism.
But while we gained conveniences and new forms of expression through media technologies we also lost the patience to see the world around us.
Returning to landscape painting, a practice central to traditional Chinese philosophy as well, is a way to return to a de-digitized form of seeing.
The Eidos platform takes the techniques and methods developed by the impressionists and adapts them to our world today.
The Platform
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The Interface will be the Palette. Learn everything you need to get started painting outside.
Get the right canvas, easel and palette for plein air painting
Create a palette with the right paints to capture light
Get all the tools you need from brushes to mediums and how to use them
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The code for Eidos is the color wheel. With the color wheel as a guide, the palette will open up to understand:
the primary colors and their uses
applying warm and cool colors
toning, composition and values
complementary colors to create grays and also intensify certain parts of a scene.
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Why does painting matter? What can we learn from this method and why do it?
We’ll take a deep dive in the history of landscape painting that lead to Impressionism.
See why painting can still be a valuable to help us see the world in a different way than what is represented in photography and video.
Open up our world of vision.
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Learn about ways to share your work and meet others who are also engaged in this type of painting.
Additional resources of modern plein air painters