Beginner Oil Landscape Painting

*NOTE: This course will meet 5 times on Thursday 4/10, 17, 24, & 5/1 and it will also meet on Tuesday 4/29. 

This course is designed for beginners who have minimal painting experience. Its goal is to give students the basic tools, methods, techniques and ideas necessary to begin their own personal painting experience. On the 1st class, the group will be familiarized with basic terms and concepts, such as understanding the fundamentals of composition (of landscape), simplification of form through value, and understanding main 3 elements: value, atmosphere and depth. Likewise, students will learn the notion of foreground, middle ground and background.

Students will learn the basic principles of composition, color theory, learn the four elements for landscape, value, temperature, and atmosphere and depth.

Course Objectives: 1) To become familiar with the basic methods, techniques and tools of landscape painting. Students will learn how to make color mixture as well as grasp the notion of aesthetics, emotional & spatial/dimensional properties of the basic colors and how to mix them. 2) How to start and finish a painting. 3) Painting at the studio. 

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  Danid Karim Eid