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Landscaping Painting: Idea Through Execution (Online Course) Winter 2026 w/ Ben Bauer
January 26 to February 23 (Mondays), 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM, Eastern Time
**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/H_rhZVKAKM8
Course Description
This class is intended on guiding artists through the process of landscape painting. This course will include lectures, demos and some exercises. Each artist should leave with a finished studio painting!
Course Outline
Week 1 - Idea Forming
Introduction, background, work examples.
Lecture on idea forming.
DEMO on thumbnails drawing and composition/design.
Finding what we want to say, how we want to say it.
HOMEWORK - continue finding idea through the thumbnail process in sketchbook with value makers.
Week 2 - Value and Shape
Follow up - each student has 30 seconds to show progress on thumbnails
Demo and assignment.
11x14 quartered panel.
Exploring value and shapes.
Week 3 - Color
Follow up from week 2.
Lecture on color and value.
Demo and assignment.
Quartered panel - each student will painting 4 iterations that we did in black and white and will introduce color, keeping in mind value and shapes only.
Week 4 - Produce Painting From Study Work
DEMO - Ben will conduct a painting from his thumbnail to value/color studies.
Student encrouraged to paint while Ben is doing his demo.
Week 5 - Continuing Week 4
Each student will continue to paint with live look in and feedback.
Course Materials List
These are the paints I currently have on my palette, I may use only a few colors for a specific reason. It is not expected for everyone to go out and buy everyone of these brands for the class. They are the ones I love and use.
Paints - (same colors for oil and or acrylic)
Titanium White - Williamsburg
Cad Yellow Light - Williamsburg
Cad Yellow Lemon- Williamsburg
Cad Red light - Williamsburg
Quin Magenta - Windsor Newton
Viridian - Windsor Newton
French Ultramarine Deep - Old Holland
Mars Black - Utrecht
Raw Umber - for toning panels/canvases
Mediums
Linseed oil 15% cut with odorless mineral spirits -85%
NOOD or Artist Mineral Spirit
Brushes
Rosemary and Co - Ivory
Flats size 2-12 - Mainly use 4,6,10
Princeton Dakota 6300 Series
Flats size 2-12 - Mainly use 2,4,6,8
Surfaces
Sketchbook, spiral bound. Value markers
One good surface to paint on for your finished painting. Any size works up to 18x24
2 - 11x14 canvases/panels - quartered like below. These are for exercises.
I use mostly oil primed linen panels and hand primed panels.
Artefex - linen 537
Cleaseens - type 15, 12, 66
January 26 to February 23 (Mondays), 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM, Eastern Time
**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/H_rhZVKAKM8
Course Description
This class is intended on guiding artists through the process of landscape painting. This course will include lectures, demos and some exercises. Each artist should leave with a finished studio painting!
Course Outline
Week 1 - Idea Forming
Introduction, background, work examples.
Lecture on idea forming.
DEMO on thumbnails drawing and composition/design.
Finding what we want to say, how we want to say it.
HOMEWORK - continue finding idea through the thumbnail process in sketchbook with value makers.
Week 2 - Value and Shape
Follow up - each student has 30 seconds to show progress on thumbnails
Demo and assignment.
11x14 quartered panel.
Exploring value and shapes.
Week 3 - Color
Follow up from week 2.
Lecture on color and value.
Demo and assignment.
Quartered panel - each student will painting 4 iterations that we did in black and white and will introduce color, keeping in mind value and shapes only.
Week 4 - Produce Painting From Study Work
DEMO - Ben will conduct a painting from his thumbnail to value/color studies.
Student encrouraged to paint while Ben is doing his demo.
Week 5 - Continuing Week 4
Each student will continue to paint with live look in and feedback.
Course Materials List
These are the paints I currently have on my palette, I may use only a few colors for a specific reason. It is not expected for everyone to go out and buy everyone of these brands for the class. They are the ones I love and use.
Paints - (same colors for oil and or acrylic)
Titanium White - Williamsburg
Cad Yellow Light - Williamsburg
Cad Yellow Lemon- Williamsburg
Cad Red light - Williamsburg
Quin Magenta - Windsor Newton
Viridian - Windsor Newton
French Ultramarine Deep - Old Holland
Mars Black - Utrecht
Raw Umber - for toning panels/canvases
Mediums
Linseed oil 15% cut with odorless mineral spirits -85%
NOOD or Artist Mineral Spirit
Brushes
Rosemary and Co - Ivory
Flats size 2-12 - Mainly use 4,6,10
Princeton Dakota 6300 Series
Flats size 2-12 - Mainly use 2,4,6,8
Surfaces
Sketchbook, spiral bound. Value markers
One good surface to paint on for your finished painting. Any size works up to 18x24
2 - 11x14 canvases/panels - quartered like below. These are for exercises.
I use mostly oil primed linen panels and hand primed panels.
Artefex - linen 537
Cleaseens - type 15, 12, 66