"Branching Out: Simplifying Trees in Plein Air" June 18 / 10am – 2pm
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“Branching Out: Simplifying Trees in Plein Air” June 18 / 10am – 2pm

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BRANCHING OUT: SIMPLIFYING TREES IN PLEIN AIR

Instructor: Jonathan Luczycki    Saturday, June 18 2026 10 am – 2 pm

Join us as we paint outdoors and enjoy the beauty of nature! The focus will be on techniques for painting trees, including simplifying the big shapes and noisy details, how to use temperature shifts and value ranges to make your paintings sing, and how to use a combination of hard and soft edges to help strengthen your painting.

The session will begin with a demo, followed by ample time for you to paint, during which you will get personalized input from the instructor. Demos will be done in oil paints, but you may use any paints of your choice during the day of plein air painting in the park.

Artist Bio Jonathan Edward Luczycki (Lou-ziss-key) “I was always drawing in sketchbooks and on kitchen walls as a kid. In high school, I was the head illustrator for “The Bridge” newspaper at Portland Community College.” Jonathan recieved a scholarship to Laguna College of Art & Design, one of the leading art schools teaching classical ways of painting. He received a degree in Illustration with a minor in Fine Art. He studied the early works of renowned landscape painters Edgar Payne, William Wendt, and John Carlson and quickly fell in love with painting outdoors – racing to capture the moving light on canvas like those artists before him. “My art education was a valuable tool, but nature has proven to be the best teacher out there.”

Jonathan has had several solo and group shows and his paintings are found in private collections worldwide. Jonathan currently resides, and works as a full-time painter, in Portland, OR, in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. https://www.luczycki.com/

SUPPLY LIST

  • Easel (French or foldable, or matchbox, or a table easel if you prefer to sit at a picnic table).
  • Paints Your choice of oils or acrylics. I’m not strict on I recommend a min. of 5 colors, such as the 3 primaries plus 2 secondary colors of your liking, and White.

Here’s an example of a warm and cool of each primary colors:

Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Deep, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue and Cobalt Blue.

There are also color substitutes if you want to avoid cadmium colors because of cost and toxicity. Some other colors I have on my palette are:

Sap green Quin. Magenta

Transparent brown oxide Warm white (Gamblin brand) Yellow ochre

Cobalt teal

 

  • Brushes for acrylics or A palette knife if you like. Flats and filberts are great. Size 6, 8, 10.
  • Palette (or whatever you like to place/mix your paint on). For oils I use a glass palette or plexiglass
  • Small container of medium like linseed or walnut oil if painting in oils
  • If painting in oils: Gamsol Thinner (odorless mineral spirits in water jug (must bring water in and take dirty water out) and a jar to clean brushes.
  • If painting in acrylics: container of
  • Sketchpad & pencil
  • If painting in oils: Disposable vinyl gloves
  • Paper towels or rags. The blue shop paper towels for mechanics are great!
  • Painting surface: Canvas or wood panel (or whatever surface you want to paint on, I recommend always bringing 3). Work as large as you are comfortable I regularly use 9×12, 12×16 and 16×20” when plein air painting.

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