Travel Painting Classes Via Zoom Online

New, live Zoom classes!  Get ready for your next vacation and learn the art of travel painting via my weekly 2 hour Thursday classes from April 20th -June 8th

These classes are going to be fun and interactive with feedback and constructive group critiques.  Each class will begin with a demonstration showing how to draw and paint from a specific photo supplied by me.

When you sign up for the class, I'll email you a collection of high resolution jpegs and any corresponding diagrams for the class, a color wheel and a composition E-Booklet.  If you are interested in a single class, sign up and email me at kristenpaints@gmail.com with the date you would like to attend.

Over the 8 week course, I will teach the following topics listed below.  I've chosen each reference photos from my travels, specifically for the elements contained in each one and how I can create a great lesson from them.

April 20th.) Paint a lively seascape with a beach, a wave, sea rocks and sea cliffs.

April 27th.) Create a colorful Italian garden landscape with a garden pond and reflections, potted lemon trees, light and shadow.

May 4th.) An Italian village scene.  Paint a charming, winding street scene from San Gimignano with Italian cypress trees and flowers, light and shadow.

May 11th.) Paint a captivating Hawaiian sunset.  Learn to mix a variety of warm reds, yellows and pinks plus paint backlit sea rocks and a coconut palm tree,

May 18th.) Paint a garden landscape with cast shadows across a green lawn.

May 25th.) Learn how and when to add figures in the landscape.  I'll demonstrate an easy way to sketch them into your composition.  We will paint a scene from Rome.

June 1st.) How to draw and paint architecture including an easy to learn lesson on perspective using a photo from my trip to London.

June 8th.) Paint a drone view beach scene.  Looking down on a beach with colorful umbrellas and people swimming.  I'll show you how to paint different hues of warm and cool blues.

You'll learn a complete set of skills to give you the confidence to draw and paint anywhere you travel. 

If you can't make it to the live class, the recording will be available to you afterwards to keep:).  

Class times are:

Thursdays

12pm-2pm PST

2am-4pm MST

3pm-5pm EST 

Recommended supplies for the class ~ Everything fits into a small tote bag, perfect for taking anywhere:)

1, 24 color travel painting watercolor set.  I will be using The Rembrandt 24 color set + 2 added half pans ~ Opaque white & silver.  (Tip~ you can fit 26 colors in the 24 pan metal case so I add these 2:).   This set comes with an excellent genuine sable #6 round paint brush.

A 9" x 12" or A4 watercolor sketchbook with 210gsm or 300gsm cold press or Not surface paper

A lead holder 2mm with 2B lead.  I like the Koh i noor Technigraph

A white plastic eraser

A collapsible silicone Faber-Castel water cup

A few paper towels

A pencil sharpener for the lead holder

Optional: 

Silverbrush Voyage Travel brushes in sizes 2, 4, 6 and 8

Micron .05 permanent ink pens in black

The colors included in my 24 color set are: Cadmium Yellow Lemon, Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Yellow Deep, Cadmium Orange, Yellow Ochre, Gamboge, Cadmium Red Light, Cadmium Red Deep, Permanent Madder Lake, Quinacridone Rose, Raw Umber, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, Sepia, Ultramarine Deep, Prussian Blue, Cobalt Blue, Cerulean Blue, Viridian, Hooker Green Deep, Permanent Green, Payne's Gray, Mauve, and Sap Green +  my added colors of opaque white and silver