Sea & Sky: Techniques for Painting Seascapes
4 Week Class | Registration opens 2025-04-15 12:00 PM
This course introduces essential techniques for painting seascapes, focusing on water, sky, and atmospheric effects. During this course you will learn how to depict different water conditions, cloud formations, and lighting variations using acrylic or oil paint.Through guided exercises, you will practice blending, layering, and brushwork techniques to create depth and movement in your paintings. You will also explore colour mixing to achieve realistic blues, reflections, and tonal contrasts.
Base Tuition: $240 + Material Fee: $8 = $248 Total ___________________________________________________________________________________
- What You Will Learn
- How to paint different water conditions, including calm seas and waves
- Techniques for painting realistic skies, Including clouds, sunsets and reflections
- Colour mixing strategies for blues, grays and warm sky tones
- Brushwork techniques for smooth blending and creating movement in water
- Composition principles for structuring a balanced seascape
- Materials List: Sea & Sky: Techniques for Painting Seascapes
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.