"Abstracting the Landscape" online course: Learn to painT bold expressive landscapes!
I want to show you a fresh, intuitive way to paint landscapes. In this course, based on my popular Sausalito weekend workshops, I’ll walk you through how to transform everyday photos into expressive sketches, build confident color palettes, and use sepia underpainting to make your colors pop. The course is taught in oil, but fully adaptable for acrylic painters. Along the way, I’ll take you inside my studio and share the tools, tips, and techniques I use in my own work. My goal is to free up your creativity and help you paint landscapes that feel vibrant, personal, and uniquely yours. Sign up for early registration for "early-bird discount" before launch on October 8th.
What You’ll Learn
These are the same techniques I use in my own paintings every day, including:
• Turning everyday photos into expressive sketches full of energy and movement
• Using sepia underpainting to build strong structure and values
• Creating vibrant, cohesive color palettes that avoid muddy mixes
• Leaning on composition, harmony, and value to guide creative choices
• Stepping back to evaluate and refine a painting with fresh eyes
• Knowing when to stop and adding confident finishing touches
10 Instructional Modules + Bonus Materials
I’ll guide you through 11 clear, step-by-step modules that build on each other, plus bonus lessons where I share professional tips on social media, loosening up your process, and the artists who’ve influenced my style.
Composition, Harmony & Flow
Learn how my loose and joyful approach to landscape is rooted in timeless principles of composition, harmony, and value. I’ll show you a clear process that moves from sketch to underpainting to final painting—so you can see how strong foundations support expressive, intuitive work.
EVALUATING WITH CONFIDENCE
Learn practical strategies to step back and evaluate your work with fresh eyes. I’ll guide you through revisiting key principles—composition, harmony, and value—so you can make clear adjustments and finishing touches that bring balance, clarity, and confidence to your painting.