Expressive Horizons:
Essentials in Landscape Painting Pt. 1
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Join Sam Paonessa for an inspiring five-week journey into the heart of landscape painting. In this supportive virtual studio, you’ll discover the building blocks of a powerful painting, from creating a dynamic composition to understanding the nuances of colour and light. Through Sam’s insightful demonstrations and personalized feedback, you will build a toolkit of techniques that allows for both accurate detail and intuitive, gestural brushwork. This course is designed to help you find and develop your distinctive style, translating the beauty of the natural world into art that is truly your own.
Continue Your Journey: If you’ve enjoyed Expressive Horizons or wish to continue your journey with Sam Paonessa in this course, consider the Part II, Expressive Observation: Still Life Painting, of this course. Click here to learn more and enrol.
- Define and apply fundamental principles of composition in landscape painting.
- Analyze and utilize colour theory to create depth and mood.
- Develop a more intuitive process for applying gestural brushwork.
- Construct a personal visual vocabulary for interpreting natural forms.
- Refine techniques using traditional and non traditional tools for capturing light and atmosphere in painted landscapes.
Please Note: If you have acrylic or oil materials already, please use what you have. It is not compulsory to have all the items listed.
- Paint Colours (oils or acrylics): Titanium White (Large tube), Cadmium Yellow Light or Hansa Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Red Medium, Ultramarine Blue (Large Tube), Thalo Blue, Quinacridone Magenta or Medium Magenta, Dioxazine Purple (optional), Phthalo Green or Viridian Green, Permanent Green or Green Light (optional), Sap Green (with a strong value), Cadmium Orange or other Yellow Orange, Raw Umber (optional), Indanthrene Blue (Indigo Blue in oils – optional), Transparent Red Oxide (optional), Yellow Ochre, Ivory Black or Paynes Gray.
- Gesso – small tub (ex. Liquitex or Golden)
- Matte Medium
- For Oils Only: GAMBLIN non-toxic Safflower Gel Medium in a tube OR Galkyd (Fast Drying Medium)
- Disposable Palette (9×12 or larger)
- Filbert Brushes: 3, 4, 8, 10
- Flat Brushes: #3, 6, 8, 12 (Soft hair/synthetic)
- Round Brushes: #1, 2, 4 (soft hair synthetic or sable)
- 1 – 2-inch-wide house painting brush (or even wider for applying tints)
- Shapers: Princeton Catalyst White Silicone Mini-blade #4
- Brayer: 2” or 4”
- Frederix Canvas Pad 9×12 or 12×16
- Canvas, Birch or Masonite Panels (or a combination to try various surfaces)
*Square cradled panels or boards are recommended when using a brayer - Mixed media sketchbook (XL Canson 9”x12”)
- Pencils or Watercolour Pencils in gray, black, brown for sketching
- Eraser
- Sharpener
- Apron
- Green painters’ tape
- Nitrile or Latex gloves if desired
- Artist’s Soap (Baby Oil Or Murphy’s Oil Soap for oil painters) for cleaning brushes
- We will be using various pieces of free image editing software for the class (no purchase necessary).
Details
Fall 2025
Mondays, October 20 - November 17 | 9:30am - 12pm (5 weeks)
Fee: $305 & HST
Virtual
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