New York Academy of Art

This workshop is the culmination of a series of workshops and will be an opportunity to bring all of the concepts together. Each previous concept will be reviewed and thus this workshop can be also taken as a stand-alone experience. We will begin with an overview of how sunlight interacts with atmosphere to create blue skies, golden sunlight, and the shifting of colors of landscapes. Students will each choose a landscape reference to work from that has interesting light and layers of depth. Students focus on creating an underpainting that solidifies the compositional choices laid out in their compositional and color studies. The instructor will discuss how to adjust color mixing and paint application as students work through various areas of their landscape. The goal is to bring together everything we have learned to communicate the feeling of the weather, season, and time of day. The result being a beautiful landscape that use color, light, and depth to not just replicate a photograph but to improve upon it. Workshop open to beginner to advanced painters working in any full-color media that can layer, such as oils and acrylics or any combination of watercolors, gouache, and pastels. All demonstrations will be done in oil paints. This workshop is part four in a four-part series. Students can register for one, multiple, or all parts. Please email [email protected] for registration questions.