Painting Earth Colours: A Practical Guide to Natural Painting
6 Week Class | Registration opens 2025-10-14 12:00 PM
Explore the warmth and depth of earth tones in this 6-session painting course. Whether you work in acrylic or oil, this class offers a hands-on approach to understanding and mastering natural pigments such as ochres, siennas, umbers, and oxides. Insight into enhancing insights into utilizing earth tones can also work well with other media practices including collage, mixed media, ceramics, etc. Through a variety of painting subjects—landscape, still life, and portraiture—you’ll discover how to use earth colours to improve your colour mixing skills, expand your palette, and create grounded, expressive works. Focusing on practical techniques and colour harmony, students will learn how to achieve subtle variations, create dynamic compositions, and build a strong foundation in working with limited and tonal palettes.
Previous painting experience is recommended for this course.
Base Tuition: $338 + Material Fee: $5 = $343 Total ___________________________________________________________________________________
- What You Will Learn:
- How to identify and mix key earth tones (raw/burnt sienna, yellow ochre, umber, etc.)
- Techniques for using earth colours to create rich tonal variation and mood
- Strategies for applying a limited palette to strengthen colour composition
- How to balance earth tones with brighter hues to enhance contrast and depth
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.