Exploring Abstraction: Landscape as Source with Karen Loehr

Exploring Abstraction: Landscape as Source with Karen Loehr

Class | Available

Intermediate
9/22/2026-12/1/2026
10:00 AM-1:00 PM EDT on Tue
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$525.00

Exploring Abstraction: Landscape as Source with Karen Loehr

Class | Available

Exploring Abstraction: Landscape as Source This 10-week course explores the idea of landscape as emotion, memory, texture, and atmosphere that will open our work to abstraction. Our sources will be nature, poetry, music, and anything that helps us move beyond we see and into what we feel. Ultimately this will move us toward a more responsive, evocative, and internal idea of landscape.The course will start with gathering (works on paper that are fast, loose, immediate) and move to a sustained series of paintings. Over the 10 weeks, we will:
• Develop an intuitive approach to abstract landscape
• Build confidence using mixed media and paint (student preference but will discuss oil and cold wax).
• Explore formal elements such as composition, color, texture, mark-making, and editing
• Learn to work in multiples
• Create a cohesive series of 3–6 abstract landscape paintings

  • Your instructor has provided a list of materials required to participate fully in this class. 

    If you have any questions about specifics or what is needed week-to-week, please reach out to your instructor via the email in your confirmation letter. 

    All drawing and painting media (think what provides variety of mark making); paper that can work with water media (heavy weight bristol); panels for painting. Acrylic or oil paint for use later in term (will discuss options as class progresses).

    Students will need to purchase additional basic household items that can not be found via the submitted link (such as paper towels or rags, a smock, etc). The instructor will go over these additional items in class.

    It is required that you follow proper brush cleaning techniques while participating in WSS classes and programming. Please review this video and ask your instructor for a demonstration of proper cleanup practices.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iIKYsfjl_E

    Materials for cleaning brushes and PPE are the responsibility of the student.

    Such items may include but are not limited to:

    • Shop towels for painting & cleanup

    • Safflower oil (for oil paint cleanup)

    • dish/brush soap

    • Glass containers for oil & solvent storage as well as brush cleaning

    • Aprons

    • Gloves

    • dustmasks /n95 masks

    • Eye protection


     WSS provides a small amount of shared cleanup items for the Painting Room- 3A but it is much more efficient to bring and use your own. 

    • Shop towels may be purchased for $4 a roll from WSS Staff: M-F, 10am-5pm.

Karen Loehr