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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.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/VOLZCe855PU
This workshop explores urban landscapes through a bold, graphic approach that bridges painting with illustration and printmaking traditions. Students learn to reduce city scenes into strong geometric compositions using flat color fields, controlled edges, and lines, while treating light as both a narrative and structural element. Working with a reduced palette of low gloss acrylic paint as well as technical drawing pens, the class emphasizes clarity, restraint, and intentional decision-making to create images that feel graphic, painterly, and rooted in place.
Week 1 -
Slideshow and introduction.
Students will create simplified thumbnail sketches from provided references, focusing on reduction, geometry, and light as flat shapes.
Students will also play with color palettes and temperature control.
Homework assignment.
Week 2 -
Review homework.
Slideshow.
Students will develop a larger more complex urban image from a provided reference, using color, layered light, gestural brushwork and selective line work.
Homework assignment.
Week 3 -
Review homework.
Slideshow.
Students will create a personal urban landscape from their own reference, using light, color, and structure to tell a specific story about place and moment.
Low gloss Acrylic paint or gouache (I use a combination of Golden heavy body paints with Golden flat paints)
Titanium White
Primary Yellow
Yellow Ochre
Ultramarine Blue
Phthalo Blue
Burnt Sienna
Cadmium Red Light
Black
Three brushes only:
Flat brush – for bold color fields and flat planes
Small round brush – for detail, edges, and controlled marks
Expressive brush (filbert or worn bristle) – for character and gestural strokes
Technical drawing pens (black)
One or two sizes; optional but recommended (01, 005)
Heavy watercolor/mixed media paper (9×12 or 11×14 recommended)
Pencil & eraser
Palette
water container
rag or paper towels
Painters tape
**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.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/VOLZCe855PU
This workshop explores urban landscapes through a bold, graphic approach that bridges painting with illustration and printmaking traditions. Students learn to reduce city scenes into strong geometric compositions using flat color fields, controlled edges, and lines, while treating light as both a narrative and structural element. Working with a reduced palette of low gloss acrylic paint as well as technical drawing pens, the class emphasizes clarity, restraint, and intentional decision-making to create images that feel graphic, painterly, and rooted in place.
Week 1 -
Slideshow and introduction.
Students will create simplified thumbnail sketches from provided references, focusing on reduction, geometry, and light as flat shapes.
Students will also play with color palettes and temperature control.
Homework assignment.
Week 2 -
Review homework.
Slideshow.
Students will develop a larger more complex urban image from a provided reference, using color, layered light, gestural brushwork and selective line work.
Homework assignment.
Week 3 -
Review homework.
Slideshow.
Students will create a personal urban landscape from their own reference, using light, color, and structure to tell a specific story about place and moment.
Low gloss Acrylic paint or gouache (I use a combination of Golden heavy body paints with Golden flat paints)
Titanium White
Primary Yellow
Yellow Ochre
Ultramarine Blue
Phthalo Blue
Burnt Sienna
Cadmium Red Light
Black
Three brushes only:
Flat brush – for bold color fields and flat planes
Small round brush – for detail, edges, and controlled marks
Expressive brush (filbert or worn bristle) – for character and gestural strokes
Technical drawing pens (black)
One or two sizes; optional but recommended (01, 005)
Heavy watercolor/mixed media paper (9×12 or 11×14 recommended)
Pencil & eraser
Palette
water container
rag or paper towels
Painters tape