Share your work! For your class project, use the reference photo provided below and paint your own loose landscape! Play around with color mixing and brush marks and also try out the exercise of building dimension and form.

Once you are done take a picture of what you’ve created and share your projects with us here and upload it to the “Your Project” tab.

*** Ready to challenge yourself even more!? Follow this class up with another LOOSE LANDSCAPE (using a reference) but this time it's one level up with more details! - https://skl.sh/36UgMtg

NOTE : Reference photo - (cannot be sold or reproduced in any way. Any work you create from this class is meant of educational and learning purposes only. All of my work is copyrighted and that is a violation of the copyright.)

TOPICS I COVER:

Prepping your canvas and materials – I will show you how to prep your canvas before painting and all the brushes and paints you will need for this project.
Color Mixing – we will go over how to create a range of colors by only using 4 colors and white and black.
Brush marks – I will demonstrate the brush techniques that will be used in today’s class project.
Block in shapes and Sketch– I will show how to simplify your reference photo by blocking off your shapes based on color and shape.
Dimension / Form – I will teach you the basics of achieving form in any shape based on color and value.
Painting process and details – I will teach you how you can layer and build your colors to add definition to you painting.

MATERIALS I USED (but use whatever you have available.)

1) Paints:

Arteza Acrylic paints (premium 60 set) - https://bit.ly/3dhihCo – olive green, raw sienna, burnt sienna, phthalo blue, white & black

2) Brushes: 3/4 flat brush , 8 flat brush, 6 and 10 filbert brush, thin brush (details),

3) Strathmore Acrylic Paper (5x7")

5) Glass Palette - https://amzn.to/32w9BWI

6) Glass scraper - https://amzn.to/3mjIWo9

7) Bowl for water

8) Paper towel / rag

9) Gesso - https://amzn.to/3j48nXY

10) Gel Medium - https://amzn.to/3hiQW84

11) Artist Tape - https://amzn.to/2XAtPuI

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