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LANDSCAPE OIL PAINTING ON RED GROUND

Hands-on workshop

Medium used: Oil painting on canvas

Level: Beginner - Intermediate - Advanced

Take advantage of the potency of the color red. Learn Caroline Jasper's way of starting with red canvas. Get rid of those muddy colors! Take your oil paintings to another level. Dare to try a new approach in thinking about and working with color. Through easy-to-follow methods, discover brilliant color interaction techniques for dramatic light and shadow effects. Take home your own visual impact landscape.

Bring color landscape photo references.

(Optional) Bring extra brushes, #4 and #6 brights.

Student comments:

"I have employed your approaches in my Senior classes."
Ian Griffiths, Art Dept. Head, Lower Canada College

"I was particularly struck by your use of a red ground. Your painting rediate with color and luminosity."
DeSales Kelly-Eck, Havre de Grace, MD

"Your class got me excited/inspired to try the red canvas technique with my wildlife paintings. Red just makes the colors so vibrant."
Kelley Singleton, Edgewood, MD

Painting Demonstration: Landscape on Red Ground

• On red canvas, beginning with white, separate shapes of color and value gradually combine creating a finished landscape.

• Six steps illustrated and explained, including technical tips.

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