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Landscape Painting for the Beginner
Rating: 4.5 out of 5(15 ratings)
281 students
Created byJerry Jiao
Last updated 2/2016
English

What you'll learn

  • Finish a professional like landscape painting on 8"x10" canvas
  • Begin to establish the confidence in canvas drawing, color mixing, painting by acrylic

Course content

1 section10 lectures45m total length
  • Introduction of the course1:42

    Introduction of myself and my vision of art teaching, bring out the goals of this course. the painting picture is available for reference

  • Introduction of painting materials3:41

    Introduction painting materials including canvas, paints,brushes, palette, water container etc

    this simple set painting materials won't cost high but is very efficient for high quality painting.

  • drawing on canvas3:44

    I will tell you why the drawing is necessary for the beginner, will show you how to analyze the picture before you are drawing, compose and manage the drawing on canvas, will show you how to make your drawing to be finished precisely in finding the landmark points.

  • Canvas priming2:18

    Explain the reason of canvas priming and the consideration of priming color selecting. demo in detail of priming process.

  • Color mixing6:20

    This is the core step of the course, I will show you how to start to mix all colors that you need by 3 primary colors and white, I will show 3 practical ways of color mixing. the coloring mixing test sheet is downloadable for your practicing.

  • Painting the sky7:42

    We start to paint from the sky, I will show you how to mix the color and paint, the important demo of this lecture is the way of color transiting and blending.

  • Painting the mountains10:05

    In this step, the light and shadow concept will be simplified, the contrast of light/dark, warm/cool will be delivered in the very easy way. we will get inspired through painter's eyes

  • Painting the ice sea8:03

    Explain the difference between black and darkness, showing another way of color blending, the short demo of the "magic" of brush cleaning in 3 slots water container.

  • Painting Framing0:28

    , Good framing can make your painting looks more nicely, I will show you 2 ways of canvas framing

  • Conclusion1:01

    Painting is a fun, Painting in your style is more than a fun, Addressed the importance of creativity in landscape painting. announcement of the road map in further study.

Requirements

  • There is no any drawing or painting experience needed
  • Simple set of painting materials: 8"x10" canvas, good quality acrylic paints: 3 primary colors plus white, 2 size brushes, pallette.

Description

Landscape painting is very popular and a fun, but it's very difficult for the beginner or someone who is short of the foundation of drawing, color theory and painting techniques. In the meanwhile, going to art school is painful sometimes, the higher tuition fees and high commuting time will stop your dream of art.

This course is very good choice if you have those headaches.

In this course, I will show you step by step to finish the painting process, I started from the introduction to simple set painting materials, guide you through the color mixing in 3 easy to follow ways. giving out the demo of canvas primming, doing the detailed demo for whole painting process. I will even show you how to frame your painting.

All of those methods came from many years art teaching experience, lots of useful tips came from the common difficulties that beginners usually have.
I hope my course can help you to start your art journey,

Who this course is for:

  • Beginners for painting