Landscape Painting: Paint Your Own Stunning Landscapes
What you'll learn
- How to organize your approach for painting landscape subjects.
- Ideas for simplifying the thousands of details within a landscape.
- The power of value hierarchy and how it impacts depth within a scene.
- The three major planes and how light & shadow impacts each one.
- Atmospheric perspective basics which will teach you how value and color are impacted in landscapes.
- How to simplify and paint basic trees and sky holes.
- The basics fundamentals for painting sky gradations and clouds with linear perspective.
- Various lighting conditions such as sunrise, sunsets, cloudy days and more.
- Color mixing techniques for mastering many ideas. You will absolutely love this section!
- Design and composition techniques.
Requirements
- Should have a basic understanding for how to use your desired medium (watercolor, acrylic, digital software etc)
- Have the motivation to learn and participate in the many assignments.
- A positive attitude and patience to persevere, it's a long but highly informative course!
Description
HUGE UPDATE!!! Oct. 31, 2020
Over 30 lessons and 5+ hours of content uploaded! New sections include;
Lighting conditions - master various lighting effects such as sunrise, sunsets, cloudy days, back-lit etc.
Color - master various color techniques such as warm & cool, mixing perfect greens, color vibrations and more.
Design & composition - a key to painting successful landscapes is design & composition. This section delivers the goods!
Are you tired of painting mediocre landscapes? Do you lack confidence to create your own original landscape art? Are you frustrated and exhausted with only copying other artist's work?
Then this course is for you! It's and complete package for developing quality landscape painting fundamentals so that you can start building a stable foundation and stop relying on luck!
Here is a quick look at some of the sections in this course.
Masses - learn how to simplify and reduce complex landscape subjects into abstract masses. The key to making your art interesting to look at, and paint, is right here!
Value Hierarchy - Simplifying your abstract masses into and organized value plan will help you guide the viewer through the painting, reduce stiff and cluttered art, plus develop better focal points.
Light & Shadow and The Three Planes - this section covers the importance of dividing what's in light and what's in shadow. And I will teach you the three common planes and the impact light has on each one.
Atmospheric Perspective - There are many layers of atmosphere as you look into the distance. Naturally values and colors are impacted by these veils so it's crucial to understand how to handle this idea in your painting process.
Trees & Sky Holes - Learn the basics of painting trees which is arguably one of the most challenging areas of landscape painting. Discover how to paint sky holes and not have them look cut out and pasted onto your work.
Clouds & Sky - In this section you will learn how linear perspective impacts your clouds. I will teach you the proper value gradation found in many skies. Plus we will take that idea a step further and create a general three color gradation model you can use to compare skies to.
Course Highlights
Over 15 hours of premium video content
Master's Analysis to see how some of the legends used these ideas in their art.
6 Assignments for you to complete.
Robert's take on each assignment so you have something to compare your work to.
Detailed text breakdown for each lesson.
Hi-res Images of each demonstration.
Ask questions and prompt get answers!
Who this course is for:
- Beginner artists and creatives that want to build a solid foundation for painting landscapes.
- Experienced artists that want to learn some fundamentals that organize landscapes into a set of ideas making the subject(s) more approachable.
Instructor
Hi, I'm Robert Joyner.
I'm a full time paint-slinger from Richmond, Virginia specializing in watercolor, acrylic & mixed media paintings. Best known for my signature loose brushwork and carefree approach to creating abstract style artwork.
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Official Artist 2012 Kentucky Derby
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National Pastime Baseball Museum
Art On Carnival Cruise Ships
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Art on sitcom Modern Family
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Artwork in movie Tracers
2013 Mixed Media Instructor Strathmore Papers
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