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Course curriculum

    1. Student Orientation Video

    2. Join your community!

    3. Vocabulary

    4. Materials

    1. Examples from Art History

    2. Creating a Composition From Photo References

    3. Beginning the Underpainting

    4. Foreground Colors

    5. Beginning the Painting

About this course

  • $79.99
  • 9 lessons
  • 2 hours of video content

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Learn a lifelong skill for the price of a trip to the art supply store

Course overview

Discover how to paint vivid, illusionistic landscapes that guide the viewer’s eye through space. In this course, Elody Gyekis walks you through the process of composing from reference and imagination, building an underpainting, and mixing color to express light, depth, and mood. You'll learn how to simplify foreground detail, push atmospheric perspective, and apply paint with intention—balancing realism and expression. Whether you're new to landscape painting or looking to strengthen your technical voice, this course gives you the tools to create thoughtful, emotionally resonant scenes that go far beyond copying a photo.

  • Build dynamic, layered compositions

  • Create depth using underpainting techniques

  • Master atmospheric color relationships

  • Balance realism with expressive brushwork

  • Transform flat references into drama

  • Paint confidently from imagination and life

Instructor

Elody Gyekis

Instructor

Elody Gyekis is a painter, animator, and sculptor who uses visual storytelling to reinvent traditional gender roles. Elody earned her MFA in Painting at the New York Academy of Art in 2019 and her BFA in Painting and Ceramics from Penn State University in 2009. Her paintings have been exhibited in many solo and group shows in Pennsylvania and New York, and also across the USA, Central America, and Europe. She completed artist residencies in Sibiu, Romania in 2014, and Giverny, France in 2018. Elody has taught painting workshops in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Honduras, and Costa Rica. In addition to her fine art, she has been a community arts organizer of murals and other public art projects in Pennsylvania and beyond. Elody splits her time between living in Pennsylvania, Central America, and Brooklyn.

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