Description
In this six week online class, we will tackle the important skills needed to make a strong start in your landscape paintings. Starting with skill building exercises and moving on to painting outdoors, this class will give you the skills and concepts to make strong starts which lead to successful painting results. The skills and concepts we will work on in this class can be applied to painting outdoors as well as studio work. Video demos, illustrations, step by step guides, and written lectures will give you the confidence and skills to paint outdoors in a group or on your own.
We will cover:
- understanding the main four value zones in the landscape
- how to see the big shapes in Nature- the “big look”
- selection of subject- how to narrow your focus
- using simple three and four value studies to see and organize big shapes
- learning to edit – simplification and massing
- how to use thumbnails to quickly investigate compositional possibilities
- how a simplified underpainting can provide a strong framework for your painting
- how to choose a color harmony for your painting
- how premixing can simplify your painting process and ensure clean color
- simplifying your “kit”- selecting equipment for painting outdoors