Description
Expressive Landscape Painting with Victoria Templeton
Unleashing Creativity and Capturing Nature’s Soul
Date: Mondays, September 15 – October 20, 2025 (6 weeks)
Time: 10am-12:30pm
Cost: $160/$190
Immerse into the dynamic world of expressive landscape painting—a class designed for artists eager to combine imagination, emotion, and nature into their work. Expressive landscape painting is more than an art form—it’s a way of connecting with both the environment and one’s own inner life. Here, the goal is not mere replication of what you see, but an interpretation that resonates and communicates your memories and personal experience into the landscape. By moving beyond strict representation via exercises, artists are free to reveal the spirit of a place through gesture, color, and brushstroke. Each painting becomes a personal story to the essence of the landscape, its changing light, shifting weather, and evocative textures, Artists are to move beyond literal realism, explore simplification, abstraction, movement, and mood. This class fosters a warm, collaborative atmosphere where experimentation is celebrated, and creative risks are encouraged. The emphasis is always on process, play, and the joy of painting.
Suggested Paints (all mediums welcomed)
*Note: (Hue is fine alternative-it will just be more transparent) Cadmium Yellow Lite (or cad free),
Cadmium Yellow Med (or cad free), Cadmium Red light (or Cad Free), Alizarin Crimson (hue is okay),Quinacridone Magenta, Ultramarine Blue, Phthalo Blue, Titanium White. Burnt Umber, Ivory Black You can bring any additional you wish.
But I recommend a limited palette
Mediums: Gel matte medium for acrylics/ Odorless mineral spirits (Gamsol), linseed for oils. If using water-based oils, then linseed made for water. Sealed jar for oil mediums.
12 x16 Palette Paper or Palette-I recommend Masterson’s 12×16 sealed palette
Blue Shop Towels (I prefer Job Squad) buy in the automotive or paint section in a hardware store. More absorbent and durable vs paper towels
Brushes of various sizes and types: Definitely a Large flat 2” brush/ large # 40 or larger round brush to start-we can discuss others later.
Palette knives, sponges, rags, and other mark-making tools
Canvas pad 9×12 or 11×14 Mixed Media paper for exercises.
Sketchbook and drawing tools: Lyra pencil 6B or higher/graphite pencils/ soft charcoal.
Small notebook for notetaking and ideas
Comfortable clothing for studio work
Reference photos or sketches from nature
