Expressive Horizons: Essentials in Landscape Painting

Online classes

Capture nature's beauty alongside award-winning artist Sam Paonessa. Experiment with brushwork, colour mixing, and texture to craft dynamic landscapes in oils or acrylics—no prior experience needed. Walk away with a bold personal style in seven weeks.
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Why This Course?
Sam Paonessa (plein air specialist and award-winner) guides you to:

Skill-Building Essentials
– Mix vibrant, mood-driven palettes using value and perspective
– Layer depth with brushes, palette knives, and brayers
– Balance composition by mastering line, form, and texture

Creative Freedom
– Work in oils or acrylics—your choice
– Refine your voice through weekly critiques and live demos
– Get 1:1 feedback tailored to your goals

Outcome
Leave with landscapes that feel authentically yours—and the techniques to keep growing.

Understanding Colour and Composition: Understand and apply advanced techniques in colour mixing and composition to create impactful landscape paintings.
Develop Technical Skills: Gain proficiency in various painting techniques, including brush, brayer and palette knife work, to enhance texture and depth in your artwork.
Understand Landscape Elements: Learn how to effectively use line, perspective, form, and scale to bring landscapes to life.
Foster Personal Artistic Style: With encouragement and guidance, develop your personal artistic style in landscape painting.
Enhance Creativity and Expression: Grow your creativity and ability to expressively capture landscapes, guided by expert demonstrations and thorough individual critiques.

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 (9x12 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 9x12 or 12x16
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).