Painting: Atmospheric Landscapes, Light, Weather & Mood
6 Week Class | Registration opens 2025-07-03 12:00 PM
This course offers an in-depth study of atmosphere as a powerful tool in landscape art. Through structured lessons and guided practice, students will explore how to convey depth, light, and emotion by applying principles of atmospheric perspective. Emphasis will be placed on developing a painter’s sensitivity to shifting weather conditions - such as fog, rain, overcast skies, and golden hour light - and translating those effects through careful colour mixing, layering, brushwork, and composition. From subtle tonal transitions to dramatic contrasts, students will learn how to evoke mood and spatial complexity in their work, using nature’s changing light as both subject and guide.
Base Tuition: $338 + Material Fee: $10 = $348 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Principles of atmospheric perspective to create depth and distance
- How to use colour temperature, saturation, and value to reflect light and mood
- Techniques for painting different weather effects (fog, rain, snow, sun, wind)
- Compositional strategies for dynamic and balanced landscapes
- Expressive brushwork to convey motion, softness, or clarity
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.