Beginner Oil Landscape Painting

Beginner Oil Landscape Painting

Adult Course | Registration opens 6/4/2024 7:00 AM MDT

200 Grant St Denver, CO 80203 United States

202 Atelier

Entry Level / Foundation, Beginner

7/11/2024-8/1/2024

9:00 AM-12:00 PM MDT on Th

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$222.00

$188.70

***Class will be held in studio 206 on July 25th***

Introduction/Beginner Oil Landscape. This course is designed for beginners who have minimal painting experience. Its goal is to give students the basic tools, methods, techniques and ideas necessary to begin their own personal painting experience. On the 1st class, the group will be familiarized with basic terms and concepts, such as understanding the fundamentals of composition (of landscape), simplification of form through value, and understanding main 3 elements: value, atmosphere and depth. Likewise, students will learn the notion of foreground, middle ground and background.

Course Objectives: 1) To become familiar with the basic methods, techniques and tools of landscape painting. Students will learn how to make color mixture as well as grasp the notion of aesthetics, emotional & spatial/dimensional properties of the basic colors and how to mix them. 2)How to start and finish a painting. 3) Painting at the studio.

  • Sketchbook pad 5" x 7", Pencils H, HB, 2B; kneaded eraser, canvas board (3) 11" x 14 " , personal photo of a landscape

    Other painting materials you will need will be discussed the 1st class.

Danid Karim Eid is a Venezuelan American artist based in Colorado. She graduated from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley with a degree in Journalism and a minor in Visual Arts. Danid Karim is classically trained following the Old Master’s style at the Real Academy of Art in Denver.  Her artistic approach is representational art and Contemporary Realism. Although, she has worked with a variety of media, her primary medium is oils. She is also a member of Oil Painters of America.

Danid Karim believes art permeates all aspects of being. She is interested in the pursuit of beauty, the simple forms of daily life, nature, our planet and all in it. “It is beauty around us that inspires me to create paintings which reflect my perception of those artistic qualities.”