Painting: Urban Landscapes 2
10 Week Class | Registration opens 2026-07-02 12:00 PM
Urban Landscape Painting 2 is open to students who have completed Urban Landscape Painting 1, or have equivalent experience with urban landscape painting and are interested in exploring self-directed projects. This course builds on foundational skills learned in Urban 1, and emphasizes the development of personal vision, material and conceptual exploration, and an independent studio practice. Self-directed projects may include a series of paintings, a small body of work or the execution of a larger work. This course will prioritize dedicated studio painting time, with the instructor available for technical and conceptual guidance, alongside lectures, demonstrations, and critiques. This course can be taken multiple times as students continue to develop their practice.
Base Tuition: $495 + Material Fee: $5 = $500 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Historic and contemporary approaches to painting the urban landscape
- Methodologies for engaging with urban space and gathering reference material
- Exploring compositional potential of images
- Brushwork and mark making as descriptive and expressive tools
- Best practices for approaching independent studio practice
Brian Harvey
Brian lives and works in Toronto. He has been painting and exhibiting for over a decade and his work can be found in public and private collections across Canada, the United States and Europe.
His paintings are studies of the commonplace and the typically mundane: the everyday objects, spaces and urban landscapes that surround him that are frequently overlooked.
He has training from Seneca College, Sheridan College, Toronto School of Art, the Art Centre at Central Technical School, and has recently completed a BFA from OCAD University in Toronto.