Creative Landscape Painting
8 Week Class | This course is completed
The natural landscape has been a source of inspiration for artists throughout art history. This course is designed to provide creative practices enabling you to bring your own landscapes to life. We will use photography, collage, digital applications, and drawing for our pre-sketches and then paint them with proper mediums. Suggested materials are acrylic and oil, but you can also use other mediums. We will also focus on improving your skills in composition, colour theory, and image perception. Through tutorials and discussing classic and contemporary landscape paintings, we will explore different styles and techniques and experience the full potential and scope of landscape painting.
Note: Previous painting experience is recommended for this course.
Base Tuition: $365 + Material Fee: $10 = $375 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Composing and collaging photographs and different materials according to composition rules to create unique paintings
- Learning a variety of colour schemes, and choosing the proper one based on your sketches
- Generating unique compositions with a deep understanding of composition rules, masses, forms, values, light and shadow planes, & atmospheric perspective
- Studying the works of contemporary artists who use nature as a context to develop their ideas
- Developing stronger observation and technical skills in landscape painting
- Reproducing landscape elements
Leila Refahi
Leila is an experienced art teacher and researcher with a demonstrated history of working in Visual Art. She has taught painting and drawing in different art schools and universities in Canada, Finland, Germany and Iran since 2011. Leila works with painting, installation and digital media to create participatory art experiences. Her work mainly focuses on environmental issues, climate change and endangered animals. She is interested in socially engaged art and its impact on raising and transforming environmental knowledge in communities. She has presented six solo exhibitions and participated in over 60 national & international group exhibitions and festivals.