Online on Zoom | 2 full days Saturday-Sunday: Apr 12-13 2025 | 10am - 5pm Arizona Time (*always on Mountain Standard Time) 

Calvin Liang will be teaching a two days workshop online. The time will be spent working on a single studio painting based on photos you take on location. Calvin will begin a slideshow to show how he uses the photo as a reference for the painting. Then do a demonstration and spend the remaining time with each student throughout the rest of the day. It is recommended to have a separate laptop or tablet for the photo reference to work from. Alternatively, you may have color prints of your reference photos printed.

The lessons will include:

      1.  How to plan a composition that will be effective for the artist’s intentions

           and preferences;

      2.  How to better see and use warm and cool color in landscape;

      3.  How to command hardness and softness of the edges to create space in a

           painting;

      4.  How to simplify the subject matter through the use of basic design, value,

           color and drawing skills;

      5.  How to consider the reasons for different paint surface textures, and

           brushstroke direction over the forms;

      6.  How to get the best possible results in a short time.