
Join Dan Scott in a six-lesson, wet-on-wet oil landscape from start to finish on a 10 by 12 inch canvas, emphasizing color observation and a limited palette.
Prepare the canvas by staining it with a yellow wash to establish values, warm up with loose brushwork, and sketch the composition before painting.
Lay down the dominant shapes and dark areas to set the composition, establish the horizon line, and map the mountains and sky, then refine with loose strokes and quick outlines.
Paint a dull New Zealand landscape focusing on the sky and water, using a gray-blue palette, blocking values, loose thick brushwork, and negative-space composition to create subtle reflections and harmony.
Paint the grass area at the bottom left with textured, varied color patches and small points of interest to keep the viewer engaged, using yellow, ultramarine blue, and earthy tones.
learn to build depth in a New Zealand landscape in oils by blocking dark values for distant mountains, using blue-gray tones and atmospheric perspective with soft edges.
Refine the final 10 percent of your New Zealand landscape oil painting with careful adjustments. Balance texture and edges, avoid overworking, and paint for viewer distance to create atmosphere.
Hi there!
In this course we will be painting a beautiful New Zealand landscape scene. The course is broken down into 6 video lessons and will cover exactly we go from the reference photo to the finished painting.
You will learn how to:
This course will be demonstrated in oils, but the techniques used are similar for those of you wanting to use acrylics.
This is aimed at beginner to intermediate painters looking to get started with oils or acrylics. However it is not an absolute beginners course, so there is some assumed knowledge of materials and general painting concepts.
The perfect student for this course would someone who is:
But obviously all students are welcome.
Hope you can join me on this painting course!