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Structure and Color for Landscapes

🎨 Build your landscape painting skills from the ground up with one of today’s leading plein air artists. In this comprehensive course, Bryan Mark Taylor walks you through the entire foundation of landscape painting—from the earliest thumbnail sketches to the final touches of atmosphere and perspective. Whether you're just starting out or looking to refine your process, this course offers a structured, high-impact approach to strengthening your work at every stage.


Here’s what you’ll learn:

🔹 Module 1: Design & Planning

  • Choosing your palette and materials

  • Proportion and placement strategies

  • The art of designing with thumbnails

  • A full thumbnail demo and guided exercise

🔹 Module 2: Big Shapes & Value Patterns

  • Understanding value structure and shape hierarchy

  • How to simplify with a black & white palette

  • Full-value demo + value pattern and atmosphere exercises

🔹 Module 3: Perspective

  • Atmospheric perspective and its effect on depth

  • Linear perspective explained and demonstrated

  • Practical exercises to internalize both techniques

Throughout the course, Bryan shares the key questions and mental check-ins he uses in every composition—building habits that help turn thoughtful design into instinct.

This is a must-watch course for landscape painters who want to revisit and reinforce the fundamentals that support all great work. With hands-on exercises, thoughtful lectures, and over five hours of content, you’ll find yourself returning to this material again and again.

🕒 Runtime: 5+ hours
🔒 Available exclusively to Pro Artists Club members

  • Bryan Mark Taylor

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Meet your instructor

Bryan Mark Taylor

A painter, lecturer, entrepreneur, and world traveler Bryan Mark Taylor is a renaissance man. He makes regular contributions to art and design magazines including Plein Air and Imagine FX.
Bryan is a sought-after teacher and lecturer and has taught courses worldwide, including at the Academy of Art University, Pixar, and the Scottsdale Artists School. In addition, Bryan has been a featured speaker at the Plein Air, CTNX, Fantastic Arts, Dragonsteel, and VisionX conferences.
Bryan has traveled around the globe, carefully observing and capturing nature’s miracles.

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