If you've never painted much, but the idea of painting a landscape has moved you in some way, this is the class where you jump in and wind up with a successful painting that is uniquely you!

With a thoughtful and systematic approach, we'll add doable bits and pieces to our body of knowledge. Using warmups both meditative and fun, a little bit of a color wheel analysis, and by powering up the way we look at sketching, you'll be ready to go for your first landscape painting.

Even more importantly, you'll be set up with the artistic toolkit you need to keep painting....and painting....and painting - making expressive, expansive work to grow on for years to come.

You'll be creating a lot in this class - color and value exercise pages, thumbnails and preparatory sketches to start a new sketching habit and approach, stylized and fun preliminary paintings featuring whimsical hills and forests, a painterly study in black and white, even a quartet of cute modernist mini-abstracts in your favorite color - but the culmination will be a full scale and display worthy landscape you'll love, 12 inches by 12 fabulous inches!

This will be not the end, but the START of a beautiful relationship - you, painting regularly, confidently, and beautifully.

You don't need anything fancy or expensive for this class. The full material list is accessible as the class PDF download - take a peek and see if you already have the things you need - if you've dabbled at all you may be halfway geared up.

There is something in this class for ALL levels, but I've paced it for beginners and addressed it to the needs of beginners. I've included much of what I believe constitutes solid footing in a fun and rewarding landscape painting exploration, habit, and practice.

You can see more of my own painting at dena-ann-adams.com and illustration and creative mixed media classes at denadraws.com Keep up with the latest via instagram and join the fun on facebook, too.

Don't forget to consult the PDF, attached to the right of the "Projects" tab - it's a valuable cheat-sheet that summarizes some key concepts in color and value.

Michelle Iverson

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