Description
FORESTS AND MEADOWS – ACRYLIC PAINTING BASICS
Instructor Leah Kohlenberg
$60/Members. $120/Non-members
Mondays, June 2, 9, 16
10am – 2pm
Class Description. Do you find yourself overwhelmed when looking at a landscape scene,
wondering where to start, how to describe details close up and far away, and how to use your brush?
This series is designed for all students of all levels to learn the basics of painting forests, meadows,
and other landscapes. You can then use these basics to create rich and layered nature paintings,
either en plein air or in your studio. This class will cover color-mixing, brushwork, perspective issues,
block-ins, and detail work. Following the instructor’s demos, you’ll work on your own paintings.
These techniques are specific to acrylic and oil painting, you may choose to work in either. If you are
a beginner, I highly recommend you work with acrylics because the medium used in the demos.
Artist Bio Leah Kohlenberg is a professional painter who has been selling paintings and teaching art
for 25 years. She loves painting all subjects, and works in oil, acrylic, pastel, charcoal and ink. She
runs an online art school, The Roaming Studio (www.theroamingstudio.com), where she teaches
drawing and painting to hundreds of students from around the world, and in her studio, and at the
Oregon Society of Artists in Portland, Oregon. See more here at https://www.leahkohlenberg.com/
SUPPLY LIST
Demos will be done in Acrylics. You may work in oil if you prefer in oil if you prefer, but demos will not
relate to any other medium.
ACRYLIC PAINTS The following are suggested colors:
o Cadmium Red Light
o Quinacradone, Permanent Red, or Rose
o Ultramarine Blue
o Pthalo Blue
o Cad Yellow Medium or Hansa Yellow
o Lemon Yellow or Cad Yellow Light
o Viridian Green
o Titanium White
o Burnt Sienna
o Burnt Umber
SURFACE: Three canvas boards, sheets or stretched canvas (any size)
BRUSHES: Several acrylic brushes, including a one-inch craft brush
PALETTE paper palette is fine
MISC: Pencil, water containe
