Facets of Landscape Painting with Lindsay Mueller
Class | Available
This course will investigate landscape beyond the naturalistic representation of a place. Students will delve into landscape depiction as a means of expressing ideas, fostering emotion, inventing space, and more. Beginning by working from photographs to depict landscape representationally, students will then move through a series of prompts each week, encouraging them to consider how specific choices affect the outcome and meaning of their work. Students will consider factors such as point of view, color palette and temperature, mark making strategies, and how to use invention and construction while image building. Students should use a medium they have prior familiarity with for their work, and can choose to work in drawing, painting, or both.
What you can expect:
Contemporary and historical painting references
Process-based and conceptual prompting that guide making
Individual and group feedback
Who is this class for?
This class is for students who already have prior drawing and/or painting experience. Students will finish the course with an entryway into making landscape artworks that feel personal, intentional, and not overly beholden to a photograph.
Students will need a wet medium and dry medium that they have prior experience and comfort with using.
Wet Media Options (only need 1)
Gouache and/or Watercolor (if using watercolor I recommend having a white gouache as well)
Acrylic
Oil paints (this will work, but it may be challenging for certain mixed media projects or projects that involve layering due to drying time. We can talk on the first day)
Dry Media Options (only need 1)
oil or chalk pastels (I have been loving Sennelier oil pastels lately)
colored pencils
wax crayons (I really like these ones , and Caran d'Ache makes a water soluble version as well that is nice)
Other Materials
Paper 16x20 inches (should be heavy enough to hold paint, I recommend Watercolor or Bristol depending on what paint you are using)
A few pieces of toned drawing paper for later project (can discuss on first day)
A stretched canvas or Masonite for later project (can discuss on first day)
Gesso (if needed to prime paper)
A variety of brushes for your wet media
Palette or palette paper
Water cup for brushes/solvent/medium (depending on your wet media of choice)
Paper towels
Graphite Pencils (2B, 4B, 6B) & Eraser
Sketchbook
Artists Tape – color doesn’t matter but 1” good
Lastly, please bring some printed images (computer paper fine) that you have taken of landscapes that excite/inspire you for the first day.