The Art of the Landscape Painting
Join artist Martha Johnson in the virtual studio to explore the transformative power of expressive landscape painting. Drawing upon her deep connection to the expansive Canadian landscape, Martha guides you through translating internal feeling and lived experience into vibrant, impactful compositions. This course focuses on building a strong technical foundation, including sophisticated colour mixing and dynamic compositions, regardless of whether you work in acrylics, gouache, or painterly mixed media, while simultaneously refining your approach to value and perspective to construct a compelling sense of depth and atmosphere. You will investigate techniques specifically designed to bring challenging surfaces like water, rock, and foliage vividly to life, ultimately enabling you to cultivate a powerful, intuitive process to create paintings that deeply embed memory and a resonant sense of place.
- Define and apply fundamental principles of composition in landscape painting.
- Cultivate skills in colour mixing to capture atmosphere and light.
- Explore and utilise various mark-making techniques to render natural forms.
- Develop an understanding of value and perspective for creating depth in landscapes.
- Construct landscape paintings that convey emotion, memory, and a sense of place.
- Paints: This is open to watercolour, gouache, acrylic. Paint pigments should include, but are not limited to: White, Black, Ultramarine Blue, Alizarin Crimson, Hansa Yellow, Yellow Ochre.
- 8 ounce white Gesso
- Small matte medium
- 1-2 canvases (no smaller than 14×18”) – for those working with acrylic, oil, gouache
- Watercolour / mixed media paper pad (no smaller than 12×16”)
- Charcoal pencils and willow sticks
- Sketchbook – no smaller than 9×12”
- Paint brushes – recommended are five acrylic bristle brushes including one 1” Bright style brush, two medium brushes, one small and one Rigor style brush for detail
- Few sheets of bond printer paper
- Scissors
- Masking tape
- Colouring pencils
- Pastels
- Artist pen / fine tip black marker
- Ruler
- Rags
- Nitrile gloves
- Water container
- Recycled papers
- Acid free glue / PVA
- Printed photographic references for landscapes of choice
- Student should have their work on an easel or in a stable vertical position during session time for visibility
Details
Spring 26
Wednesdays, April 29 - June 3 ( 6 weeks )
12:30 - 3pm
Fee: $305 +HST
Virtual
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