Landscape Painting

For this project you will choose a landscape or cityscape to paint in acrylic. Choose a favorite place to paint and bring in a reference photo to work from. the best reference photo to use is one that you have taken yourself! If this is not possible you can use one from another source.

Here is the slideshow of examples of Landscape paintings:

In class you will learn how to use the the three primary colors (red, yellow, blue) to make every other color on the color wheel, lighten colors with white, and use complementary colors (directly opposite on the color wheel) to darken colors. Your final landscape painting will be created with only red, yellow, blue and white acrylic paint.

Landscape Painting Video Tutorial by Brtish Artist Will Kemp- This video is divided into four parts and walks you through how to go about creating a landscape painting step-by-step. It is created specifically for the absolute beginner and offers some great advice. More tutorials for painting with acrylics are on his website at www.willkempartschool.com
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