The Landscape Atelier

Drawing and Painting Trees – On Demand

$195.00 $165.75

On Demand Classes are self directed study programs. Students work through the class content at their own speed and on their own schedule. Scroll down to How the Class Works for more information.

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Instructor: Deborah Paris

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Description

For landscape artists, trees are arguably the most important raw material of our craft and art. Their very individual character, their attitude as living beings within the landscape make them a source of endless fascination and challenge for the artist. Artists in the 19th century routinely sketched and painted studies of these sentinels of nature in order to understand their structure as well as their artistic bearing. These drawings and studies were then used to create larger studio works.

John Carlson, author of Carlson’s Guide to Landscape Painting (the bible of landscape painting) rightly tells us that the way to learn to paint trees is by “much drawing of trees”. Through drawing and observation, we will learn to paint not only their anatomy, but their line, character, and the emotions they can inspire.

Topics covered in the class will include:

  • a study of examples of 19th century drawings and painted studies
  • materials and techniques for drawing in graphite and charcoal
  • the structure of different species of trees, varieties of outlines and shapes against the sky
  • making close studies of trees and portions of trees
  • making painting studies of individual and groups of trees
  • linear and atmospheric perspective of trees
  • incorporating studies into studio works; compositional studies with trees

How the Class Works

On Demand Classes are self directed study programs. Students work through the class content at their own speed and on their own schedule. On Demand Classes are available to be reviewed, watched and studied on a continuing basis. Access is evergreen (see FAQs for what that means).

The Class Course. The class content is delivered by written lecture, images and videos on a dedicated platform accessible only by class participants. 

  • Students retain continuing access to the course content, including videos.
  • The Materials & Reading List for your class is available within the course itself.

Cancellations

If after registration for an On Demand online class and before you have accessed the class, you advise us that you are unable to participate, you will receive a full refund, less an administrative fee of $50 plus applicable PayPal or other payment processor fees or you may transfer your registration to another class of like value. Once you have logged into the class, there are no refunds. 

If you have purchased multiple classes at the same time and received a bundled discount (Bundle), refunds are handled as follows. You will receive a refund for classes included in the Bundle but not yet started and accessed by you. The refund will be the amount you paid for the classes not taken, minus a $50 administrative fee, any applicable PayPal or other payment processor fees and the applicable discounted amount for classes already accessed.

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