Abstracting The Landscape

🌄 Course Title: Abstracting The Landscape with Doris Charest

Course Headline: Dive into the World of Loose Landscapes! 🎨

Course Description:

Discover the art of simplification in capturing the beauty of nature through Abstracting The Landscape. This course is your gateway to transforming the intricate details of the natural world into expressive and impactful paintings. With a focus on loosening up and embracing the essence rather than the exactness of what we see, you'll learn to distill complex scenes into their most powerful shapes and forms.

🖌️ Key Course Highlights:

• Mastering Simplification: Learn how to take a landscape and reduce it to its core elements, capturing the spirit of the scene rather than every tree and blade of grass.

• Big Brush Techniques: Embrace the challenge of using only a large brush to create your painting. This tool will become your partner in achieving those bold, loose strokes that define your unique style.

• Courage to Let Go: Find the confidence to leave behind the detailed intricacies that nature presents to us and trust your interpretation of the landscape.

• Essence Over Exactness: Focus on creating a piece that communicates the mood, lighting, and atmosphere of the environment, rather than a photorealistic copy.

Course Structure:

1. Introduction to Simplification: We'll start by understanding why simplifying is a powerful technique and how it can enhance your painting skills.

2. Breaking Down the Landscape: Learn to break down complex natural scenes into basic shapes, which will serve as the foundation for your artwork.

3. Big Brush Brilliance: Master the use of large brushes to create dynamic, loose brushwork that brings your paintings to life.

4. Capturing Mood and Atmosphere: Discover how to convey the emotions and ambiance of a landscape using color, tone, and composition.

5. Practice and Experimentation: Through a series of exercises, you'll practice applying these principles to create a series of simplified landscapes, each one deepening your understanding and skill set.

6. Final Project: Combine all you've learned in a final piece that showcases your ability to abstract the landscape with confidence and creativity.

Who is this course for?

• Beginners: Ideal for those new to painting who wish to understand the fundamentals of landscape art through a simplified approach.

• Experienced Artists: A refreshing take on the basics that can inspire and challenge even seasoned artists looking to expand their repertoire or loosen up their style.

Join Doris Charest in this inspiring course and transform your perspective on landscape painting. Embrace the beauty of simplicity, capture the essence of nature, and have a blast with color and brushwork! 🌱✨

Enroll now to Abstracting The Landscape and let's turn your artistic vision into a stunning reality! 🎨🍃