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**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite. Our business hours are 10:00 AM through 5:00 PM. All course information and email correspondence will be sent during business hours. If students purchase a course, workshop, demo or recording outside business hours or during the weekend the course information or recording will be sent the following business day.
Unleash your creativity and break free from traditional landscape painting. This dynamic workshop invites you to explore the intersection of landscape, memory and abstraction. Using acrylic paints as a foundation, you will layer, draw, scratch, and mark make with various drawing mediums – pastels, charcoal, oil pastels, wax crayons and paint pens – to create atmospheric, semi abstract, or fully abstract landscapes.
Week 1:
Exploring mark making and acrylic paint through an abstract exercise involving mark making, complementary colour and glazing.
Week 2:
Learning to see shapes and reducing your photographs into thumbnail sketches using the foundations of design. Creating a coloured ground and drawing.
Week 3:
Learn to build texture and layers with mediums and various techniques involving drawing tools.
Week 4:
Refinement, contrast and completion. Learning to self critique, balancing your piece through identification of focal point, contrast and unity.
Acrylic Paint and Mediums: Pthalo Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Titanium White, Magenta or
Quinacridone Red, Cadmium Yellow or Azo yellow, Yellow Ochre, Transparent Red Oxide, Paynes Grey and Black.
Brushes: Assortment or flat and round brushes small and large, synthetic and one 3 inch flat wash brush. Two or three palette knives, various sizes. One catalyst painting wedge.
Drawing Mediums: one set nupastels or similar hard chalk, oil pastels, compressed charcoal, wax crayons such as caran d’ache, woodies by stabile or soluble wax crayons michaels brand.
Michaels also carries cheap oil and chalk pastels.
Tools: Spray bottle, paper towels, palette for paint, utility knife, tissue paper, masking tape.
Surfaces: Canson Bristol paper 14x17 pad, two canvases no smaller than 14x14 up to 16x20
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite. Our business hours are 10:00 AM through 5:00 PM. All course information and email correspondence will be sent during business hours. If students purchase a course, workshop, demo or recording outside business hours or during the weekend the course information or recording will be sent the following business day.
Unleash your creativity and break free from traditional landscape painting. This dynamic workshop invites you to explore the intersection of landscape, memory and abstraction. Using acrylic paints as a foundation, you will layer, draw, scratch, and mark make with various drawing mediums – pastels, charcoal, oil pastels, wax crayons and paint pens – to create atmospheric, semi abstract, or fully abstract landscapes.
Week 1:
Exploring mark making and acrylic paint through an abstract exercise involving mark making, complementary colour and glazing.
Week 2:
Learning to see shapes and reducing your photographs into thumbnail sketches using the foundations of design. Creating a coloured ground and drawing.
Week 3:
Learn to build texture and layers with mediums and various techniques involving drawing tools.
Week 4:
Refinement, contrast and completion. Learning to self critique, balancing your piece through identification of focal point, contrast and unity.
Acrylic Paint and Mediums: Pthalo Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Titanium White, Magenta or
Quinacridone Red, Cadmium Yellow or Azo yellow, Yellow Ochre, Transparent Red Oxide, Paynes Grey and Black.
Brushes: Assortment or flat and round brushes small and large, synthetic and one 3 inch flat wash brush. Two or three palette knives, various sizes. One catalyst painting wedge.
Drawing Mediums: one set nupastels or similar hard chalk, oil pastels, compressed charcoal, wax crayons such as caran d’ache, woodies by stabile or soluble wax crayons michaels brand.
Michaels also carries cheap oil and chalk pastels.
Tools: Spray bottle, paper towels, palette for paint, utility knife, tissue paper, masking tape.
Surfaces: Canson Bristol paper 14x17 pad, two canvases no smaller than 14x14 up to 16x20