Mixed Media Landscapes

Capture the beauty of the outdoors with landscape sketching! Whether you're an experienced artist or just starting out, this class will guide you in creating vibrant and expressive landscape art.

Learn to transform your observations of natural scenery – from breathtaking vistas to your own backyard – into captivating sketches. We'll explore techniques using either watercolor or gouache, and then expand your creative possibilities with mixed media like colored pencils, markers, paint pens, and ink.

This course focuses on developing your unique artistic voice through playful mark-making, layering textures, and adding depth with highlights and shadows. You'll discover how to:

• Master Color: Identify your ideal blues and greens palette – the essential colors for realistic landscapes.
• Composition & Design: Learn how to make deliberate choices about what to include and exclude in your landscape drawing.
• Horizon Line Placement: Understand the importance of the horizon line and how it impacts your composition.
• Creating Depth: Distinguish between foreground, middle ground, and background to give your landscapes a sense of realism and dimension.
• Simplified Skies: Discover a simple approach to rendering skies, allowing the landscape to take center stage.
• Expressive Mark-Making: Unleash your personal style through experimentation with mixed media tools.
• Overcome Creative Blocks: Learn a simple trick to conquer the fear of starting on a blank page and embrace the creative process!

This class is perfect for anyone wanting to improve their sketching skills, explore landscape painting, and find joy in capturing the world around them. Unleash your inner artist and create stunning landscape art!