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Grand Canyon Plein Air Trip

🏞️ Stand on the edge of the world and let nature guide your hand. In this immersive demo, Ellie Wilson leads you outdoors into the dramatic vistas of the Grand Canyon, revealing how to capture its vast sweep, shifting light and layered terrain through plein air painting.

You’ll learn how to:
🎨 Use on-site observation to lock in strong value structure and anchor mood in your landscape
🌬️ Deal with real-world conditions—changing light, atmosphere, depth and weather—while staying in control of your design
📐 Simplify complex shapes into clear value groups so your major forms read clearly from a distance
🔍 Maintain freshness, spontaneity and energy in your brushwork, even while solving big compositional problems

Ideal for landscape artists who want to work outdoors with purpose and confidence—turning the Grand Canyon’s scale and drama into compelling, painterly work. 🕒 Runtime: 1+ hour

  • Ellie Wilson

    Instructor

  • Fundamental

    Difficulty
Meet your instructor

Ellie Wilson

Ellie's life as an artist started at a young age and the path to her art career seemed to have happened effortlessly. She was born and raised in the Wasatch Mountains, which instilled in her a passion for nature and beauty. The first time Ellie went Plein Air painting with the mountains surrounding her and a brush in hand she was hooked, and decided to specialize in landscape painting. When she graduated with a BFA, she sold out her solo show and launched into her career as a professional artist. Since then she have been painting tirelessly, working to master a variety of scenes in over 6 states and 18 countries around the world. 

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