Painting the Fall Landscape
12 Week Class | Registration opens 2025-07-03 12:00 PM
This course offers an in-depth exploration of the autumn landscape, focusing on the season’s rich colour palette, shifting light, and atmospheric nuance. Students will learn to observe and translate the essence of fall through a series of structured painting exercises and completed works. We will examine a range of autumn subjects—including forests, meadows, rivers, and distant hills—at various times of day, with an emphasis on how light informs colour, form, and mood. Through techniques such as glazing, wet-on-wet, dry brush, and expressive mark-making, students will develop a layered, painterly approach to capturing the complexity of fall.
Note: This course is designed for students with foundational painting experience who wish to expand their technical and compositional skills within a seasonal framework.
Base Tuition: $550 + Material Fee: $10 = $560 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Advanced colour mixing for autumn foliage—mastering reds, golds, ochres, and muted greens
- Glazing, wet-in-wet, and dry brush techniques to build texture and atmospheric depth
- How to depict diverse fall settings: forests, flower fields, riverbanks, and distant terrain
- Analysis of light across different times of day and its effect on form and color
- Compositional planning for cohesive and engaging seasonal landscapes
- Strategies for balancing warm and cool tones to evoke mood and visual harmony
- Expressive brushwork techniques for capturing foliage, movement, and surface variation
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.