Service Description

This is the Art Adventures foundation painting class for adults and teens, it's a great class to sign up for if you want to dive into the painting style that I teach in all of my other classes. In this 5 week series you will learn about brush mark-making and how to use different brushes for desired effects. You will learn about colours, lighting, layering, and more through breaking down the different elements in landscape painting. We will work with clouds, mountains, trees, and move into lighting and layering effects while we produce two final paintings on canvas. The first painting will be a layered forest with lighting effects seen in the image, and the second painting will be a larger canvas of a mountain and water landscape to practice all the skills we learned on paper throughout the course. This is for beginners who want to learn the basics and for intermediate painters who are looking to add to their repertoire of skills. Week 1- Brushes and mark making How to paint strait lines, outlines, stems, trees, etc How to create tree leaves with different bruses How to do washes, rainbows, and create atmospheric lighting effects How to use the different types of brushes Week 2 Washes Layering “in the woods” Mist, knocking things into background Creating atmospheric effects Lighting Difference between foreground, mid ground and background Week 3 How to paint clouds, different kinds of clouds, different colours of clouds Water, waves, reflections Week 4 Begin our final painting based on a photograph of a local scene with water scape Preliminary sketch and blocking in the underpainting Begin to add in overall colours of sky and water Create mood and feeling Week 5 Paint in the details Create a final masterpiece Choose pay in person for the option to email money transfer, and the total can be sent to alicia@artadventures.ca