Water Street Studios School of Art

Would you like to learn how to paint dreamy, beautiful landscapes in oil? Join this perfect summer painting class, for beginner to intermediate students and join this amazing painting adventure this summer! 

This painting class will be a wonderful opportunity to learn to paint gorgeous landscapes in oil! Join Water Street Studios art instructor, Meaghan Green, for a guided painting session learning step by step how to paint lovely landscapes in oil in this immersive guided 7 week session.

No Class on July 4th. Class will resume the following week.

The Hudson River School artists created sweeping, romantic landscapes that invited viewers to experience nature in a way that was both true to life and shockingly grand. Artists like Thomas Cole and Frederic Church drew on aesthetic principles of the sublime, atmospheric perspective, scale, color and light and technical skill to bring to life domestic and exotic views in oil paint. In this course, we’ll create oil landscapes that are not only inspired by the beauty and history of 19th century American landscape painters but reimagined for our modern context and students’ unique styles as developing painters.

Students will learn how to approach their landscape painting in a traditional way, which will include step by step guided painting using the following techniques:

• composition and preliminary sketching
• imprimatura underpainting
• medium preparation
• color mixing
• brush work skills and tips and more.

This class is for beginners to intermediates 16+ and is the perfect hands on step by step introduction to the beautiful world of oil painting!

 Please purchase the following and bring to your first class:

• Basic Set of Oil Paints, (*recommended [Utrecht, Gamblin, Blick's, or Grumbacher]: Cadmium Yellow Hue [cadmium free], Pthalo Blue, Titanium White, Cadmium Red Hue [cadmium free], Raw Umber, Yellow Ochre, students may choose to supplement with additional colors of their choice)
• Brushes. (Mixed sizes such as Utrecht long handle Maglon Brush Set,  & Princeton Select Synthetic Brush Wave Oval Mop size 1inch or similiar)
• Primed Wood Panel,  Ampersand Gessobord - 8" x 10", 1/8" Flat
• Linseed oil (Gamblin Refined Linseed Oil - 4 oz bottle)
• Brush Conditioner (The Masters Brush Cleaner and Preserver - Travel Size, 0.25 oz)
• Conte Pencil (Conté à Paris Sketching Pencil - Sepia, Single Pencil)
• 2 glass jars with lid (Such as mason jar, baby food jar, jam jar)
• Rags or paper towels
• Palette Knife
• Palette Paper
• Container to carry your supplies (Such as tool kit, and or sturdy canvas bag.)

Supplies available at https://www.dickblick.com/

•  *Students will leave with finished compositions and the skills to continue painting! Class can be repeated as needed to further develop and refine skills. * Class will not meet July 5th and will resume the following week. All registered painting students will have extra studio painting time(no instruction)  Sundays 1 - 3pm & the Water Street Classroom will be available to students  as part of registration for this class. *All skill levels are welcome, and no previous experience with oil painting is required; we’ll go over everything you need to get started! This class is for beginners to intermediates 16+ and is the perfect hands on step by step introduction to the beautiful world of oil painting!