Urban Landscape Painting

This is an ideal course for beginners and intermediate students who want to improve their painting skills and learn a step-by-step process to make landscape paintings with acrylics. No experience is necessary. This course could be a continuation for those who took previous classes during last year or new participants.

Classes will cover preliminary drawing, color combination, paint application, light, tones, values, form, texture, composition, and the use of brushes.

The class meets once a week for four consecutive weeks and will use urban landscape reproductions as a visual reference, a Gustav Caillebotte’s, Paul Schulenburg’s, or Albert Marquet’s painting.

Classes Breakdown

First and Third class

Presentation Urban Landscape images in art history. (First Class)

Drawing using an image as a visual reference.

Color theory and palette setup.

Start painting the background.

Second and Fourth class

Completion of the painting.

Color application and comparison.

Paint application and brushstrokes.

Light and shadows.

Sense of depth in a landscape painting.

Alla Prima painting.

Sense of unity and balance of the composition and final details.

About the Instructor
Pablo Contrisciani earned his Masters in Fine Arts, Painting at Facultad de Bellas Artes, National University of La Plata, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He has participated in several solo and group exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally. His work forms part of public and corporate collections from USA, Latin America and Europe. Pablo is an Oolite Arts alumnus (1998-2006 and 2010-2015) and works as a painting instructor since 1998.