colorful TREES & LANDSCAPEs painting

Trees are one of the most thought-provoking and popular subject matters in art. Learn to paint trees of all kinds using Joe's approach to color: bright, bold and unexpected!

Learn to take an ordinary image and transform it into an extraordinary, finished piece. Valuable art principles and important acrylic painting techniques focused on trees will be discussed while we work through and complete a finished piece. The artist will have a reference image provided but more advanced students are welcome to bring their own. 

All painting styles and skill levels are welcome. Also open to oil and pastel painters.

  • Composition, color, value, techniques
  • Give your painting depth and perspective
  • Color choices for impact
  • Structured but light and fun

Student will get to take home a finished painting!

Supplies:
  • Paint colors: titanium white, cadmium yellow medium, hansa yellow light, red rose deep (or quinacridone red), alizarin crimson, ultramarine blue, cobalt teal, and payne's grey (optional colors: cobalt teal, cadmium orange, and medium violet
  • Any light earth tone paints for making an underpainting
  • Canvas: 11x14 or larger
  • Brush sizes: #12 and #10 flat bristle, #8 and #6 filbert bristle, and #4 round soft synthetic
  • Palette paper
  • Palette knife
  • Tabletop easel (i.e. something inexpensive, light, foldable)
  • Vine charcoal

All-Day Workshop Info:
  • Cost $125
  • Sat, March 26th from 10:30am-3:30pm
  • Max 15 students
  • All skill levels welcome​
  • Age level: adult (18 & up)
  • Students are encouraged to bring snacks or a bagged lunch

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about the Instructor

Joe A. Oakes
Each painting is an emotional response to color…  real or imagined but always felt.” All of us, in varying degrees, have become blind to the colors of our world. The mind dictates the color of things without true observation. Giving those colors back to each of us through painting is my goal. Taking the time to see the least obvious colors in everything is the start. Then I make those colors bigger, bolder and brighter so they become the star. That is the spark needed to awaken our desire to know color better and enjoy it in our everyday lives.

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"I like the variety of art at Art on 30th. The limitless ways to think and make art…no boundaries for the most part. Thank you so much!! I love the community."

~Sharon Sheldon

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