Landscape Painting - Summer 2025
This Summer (Apr-Jul) – with the warmer weather returning I am pleased to confirm that this term I will be returning to Landscape Painting. I have already been out for my first plein air session at Shingle Street and am really looking forward to going more deeply into aspects of Landscape painting design. Design is a great word for what we will be covering. Design, in the context of painting is about having a clear idea of what you want to communicate and making choices to make that happen. This is very much an area I am exploring in my own painting and look forward to helping you also to explore it in your own painting.
NOTE: Due to Easter Holidays and Bank Holidays – there may be some variation between classes in the first half of the term. Please see emails for corrections for each class, or use the calendar which you can find HERE
Term starts on the 14th of April. Half term week is 2nd of July and Term will run until the end of July.
Please read below for specific suggestions for this term:
Lesson Plan
Week 1: Get Inspired – Master Copy
Week 2: Paint Along Demo -Step by Step
Week 3: Notan and Tonal Composition
Week 4: Using Reference to Design a Painting
Week 5: Contrast and Keys of Landscape painting
Week 6:One scene, Multiple Compositions
Week 7:Colour Design using the Colour Wheel
Week 8:Split Complementaries colour schemes
Week 9:Finding Colour Schemes
Week 10:Trees and Tonalism
Week 11:Skies and Impressionism
Week 12:Sketching Approaches
Week 13:Sketching Outdoors
Week 14:Big Painting
Week 15:Big Painting
Materials List
This is a great term to start using a sketch book alongside the class. This will give you a space to really think through your painting designs on paper. I would suggest a simple A4 or A5 spiral bound sketch book. A few pens, pencils and rubber would help here.
For the Notan sketches in Week 3, I will be using watercolour and watercolour paper with a bit of white Gouache paint. Alternatively just paint as usual on board.
The smallest boards I use for landscape are 8×10″ feel free to go bigger and play with different formats. 10″ x 20″ is quite a fun wide angle format. 12 x 16″ is as big as I like to go in a single painting session.
If this is your first term you can find a complete material list here
Recommended Reading
Reference Material
For finding good reference. I would suggest firstly consider the subjects that interest you. That could include Trees, Churches, Historic Buildings, Coastal Scenes, Boats etc. Then have a look on pintrest for those subjects and put togther a board. Other sources include Second Hand Book shops, Old photographs, Magazines, Screengrabs from TV And Film. Or you can take you own. I will also be bringing in reference materials you can use.
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