Week 5:

In order to be ready for the final class of the course, paint the colors of the lights and shadows in every area. Try to forget about local color and trust your eyes. Paint it as colorful as it is in your photo reference.

Paint everything except for the details (tiny branches, leaves, blades of grass, small rocks, etc), we'll save that for next week.

Week 3:

Finish your alla prima studies from today if you didn't finish yet.

To prepare for next week, you'll want to grab a larger canvas for your more refined painting. You can use your own photo reference if you'd like. I'll still be sending an image out in case you can't find your own or you'd prefer to use the one I send.

If you take your own image, pay attention to planes (foreground, middle ground, background), with texture and tonal contrast. If you have your own image and want to send it to me to make sure it works for class, you can email it to me or bring it to next week's class.

Week 2:

Finish glazing all four studies. Remember that a glaze is a very thin, transparent layer of paint. You will use an unexpectedly small amount of paint. Keep in mind the tone and color of your glaze, as that will affect the end result.

Tips:

• If you put a dark glaze over your underpainting, it will darken that area.
• If you put a light glaze over your underpainting, it will lighten that area.
• If you put a glaze of the same tone as the underpainting, you'll adjust the color without affecting the tone.
• You can layer glazes on top of one another
• You can create new colors with glazes because glazing is optical color mixing. A grey glaze over a burnt sienna underpainting will create a violet-ish color, whereas the same grey glaze over a black and white underpainting will remain grey.

To prepare for week 3:

Cut one piece of canvas paper in half (place your canvas pad vertically and cut horizontally in the middle, shown below). Paint one canvas in solid burnt sienna. Leave the other canvas unpainted.

Week 1:

Continue color matching based on the reference image if you didn't finish during class. This is what my finished color matching study looks like.

Prepare for week 2 by cutting one canvas sheet into 4 pieces. We will be glazing next week which means you'll need transparent pigments (refer to the handout). If you do not have transparent pigments, you can use an acrylic glazing liquid like this and add it to your opaque pigments to glaze with.