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Landscape - Complementary Colour Schemes
Feb
14
Watercolour Landscape Painting

Landscape - Complementary Colour Schemes

Landscape Watercolour Painting

Complementary Colour Schemes

Made in Canada

Three Fridays

February 14th, 21st and 28th - Online

10:00AM - 12:00PM PT

Price $99

Deciding which colours to choose for a painting can add depth, mood, and focal point to a landscape composition. 

In this class explore complementary colour schemes of master artworks, as inspiration to make personal and intentional colour choices for landscape paintings.

  • Analyse examples of masterworks that effectively use complementary colours.

  • Mixing complementary colour pairs (e.g., blue/orange, red/green, yellow/purple).

  • Create small scale landscape paintings using vibrant contrasts and neutral tones.

Art Supplies: Please bring what you have or note suggestions below

watercolour paints; a range of brushes, watercolour large and small round and 1/2” flat sizes, 1” bristle brush; cold-press watercolour paper; mixed-media sketchbook; gum arabic; ceramic palette - white soya dishes or plates; three glass jam-jars; pencil HB and eraser

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Plein Air - Vancouver Parks
Jul
10
Watercolour Landscape Painting

Plein Air - Vancouver Parks

Plein Air

CANCELLED

Watercolour Landscape Painting Outside

Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C. (Location to be confirmed)

Date: July 10th

Time: Wednesday 10:00Am-3:00PM

Price: $99 (one day session)

Enjoy the spontaneous process of watercolour painting from life, outside this summer in Vancouver parks.

Brush drawing

Develop your observation drawing skills and simplify the natural world.

During the month of July and August, I plan to offer a series of LIVE “Plein Air” (painting outdoors) workshops where we meet in Vancouver Park locations in the lower mainland.

Session 1 - July 10th

Quick Studies

The emphasis will be to work at your studies quickly, responding to nature by looking and recording what you see.

Develop your observation drawing skills and simplify the natural world. Translate the complexities of nature into abstractions of a tree shape and form, find the patterns in shrubbery and foliage, the variety of colour in flowers. Pull it all together into a composition, using leading lines and the division of space within a landscape scene.

North Shore Vancouver

This course includes an introduction to the following skills and techniques for watercolour sketching Plein Air

Observational Drawing

Learn the basics of drawing what you see

  • Observational drawing

  • Explore composition: Thumbnail drawing sketch compositions of the landscape surroundings

  • Tonal value: Translate drawing to monochromatic studies

  • Working with colour: Using key attributes of colour appearance - determine hue, saturation and value in your work

  • Painting techniques: Washes, glazing, drybrushing, wet-in-wet and a variety of experimental ways to apply paint

Painting techniques

Washes, glazing, drybrushing, wet-in-wet and a variety of experimental ways to apply paint

Travel light: Bring your travel box-set of watercolours, watercolour paper sketchbook, water brushes, bull clips to hold sketchbook paper and a fold away chair. Supply details on registration.

A maximum of six participants per class. Please email for information if you are interested in taking this series of classes.

Bring supplies you like to work with.

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