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6 classes
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This course will ground you in specific skills such as color-mixing, composition, harmony, and tonality, and help you finetune your intuition, instead of relying on guesswork, hope, or chance. You will learn how to create a classic landscape from the very beginning through glazing, and then through direct painting. The first three weeks are dedicated to practice, the last three weeks are devoted to taking our time to a refined painting while using the techniques that you learned from your quick studies.
Painting a beautiful landscape is like adding an extra window with a great view to your room.
A key element in painting a scenery is brushwork: you’ll learn which brushes to use, how to create brushstrokes to express texture of trees, ground, grass, clouds, etc. Dazzling colors of blue and green will nourish your visual vocabulary as you focus on color-mixing. You will learn the techniques of landscape painting, tonal handling of lights and shadows, how to mix colors of the radiant harmony of cool and warm hues, and how to combine it all. You will work in your home studio where the sounds of nature, wind, changing light and other distractions can’t take your attention away from learning how to create plein-air and prepare you for painting outdoors. We will provide beautiful images of the countryside, or you can use your own.
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