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Course description: Landscape Painting: PhotoImpact

This course is designed to help you learn more about painting realistic landscapes, fields, mountains or seashores and more. We will go into detail on how to paint your clouds, the texture of the mountains, how to get depth into your painting. This type of painting takes time and considerable attention to detail, but is well worth the end result.

Prerequisites:

Pre-requisites: Must have taken Creating Painting:Paint tools Proficiency and Advanced Creative painting is recommended, or be able to demonstrate to the instructor your familiarity with the program and paint tools.
Software: Version 12,11,XL,10,8......Tools locations may vary slightly but should be easily recognizable.

Lessons 1 and 2

In these lessons we will cover skys, some clouds, trees and fields.
We will start a painting in Lesson 1 and complete it in Lesson 2.
We will cover the tools, the principles associated with the scape and your color palettes.

Lessons 3 and 4

We will be painting mountain vistas with water in the foreground and another type of sky.
Start a painting in Lesson 3 and complete it in Lesson 4.
Again, covering the tools used and the principles of balance and light and shadow.

Lessons 5 and 6

In these last two lessons we will be covering the painting of a seascape with waves and rocks and with a stormy sky.
Starting with the painting in Lesson 5, we will complete it in Lesson 6.
We will look at wave formations, the light and contrast needed for realistic formation and rock placements and shadows.

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