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Plein Air Painting Foundations Landscape Oil Painting Trees by Ellie Wilson

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Plein Air Painting Foundations

🌄 Sharpen your compositional skills before heading out on plein-air adventures. In this comprehensive tutorial, Ellie Wilson guides you through the fundamentals of strong landscape composition, from contrast and line to color and form. Learn how to structure your paintings so the eye moves effortlessly through the work while capturing convincing light, color, and depth.


You’ll learn how to:
🖌️ Use contrast to build strong, readable compositions
📐 Employ lines to create value shapes that guide the viewer’s eye
🎨 Master color studies, achieve more with a limited palette, and control how light and shadow affect temperature
🗿 Understand form and edges to create believable subjects, thinking like a sculptor as you paint


Perfect for artists who want to strengthen their plein-air and studio landscapes — building confident, dynamic compositions with control over color, value, and form. 🕒 Runtime: 5+ hours

  • 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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