Introduction to Landscape Painting 

This workshop aims to introduce students to landscape painting from life, starting indoors in a controlled environment, and ending outside. Students will be taught a process for painting landscapes; Starting with a simple wash of paint, general proportions, values and colors will be established, followed by a second more opaque pass to establish the impression of the subject. A third pass will finalize the painting, fleshing things out more, calibrating, and adding details. Students will learn about what to consider when landscape painting, including time of day, light direction, composition, abstraction, palette choice, mixing, brushes, painting on consecutive days, mediums, and how to set up and know what to pack on a landscape trip.

On day one, we will paint indoors, working from photo reference to familiarize students with the process of landscape painting without the time crunch due to changing light. On day two and three we will paint at the Boston common/gardens and around the Charles River esplanade in the morning and afternoon. By the end of the workshop students can expect to have two finished paintings and an understanding of the process of landscaping painting. 

John‘s teaching method includes one and one critiques and demos.