The Art of Painting the Landscape with Photographs: 
​Oil and Acrylic Painting Workshop

PRESENTED BY DIANA LEE
Class: Saturdays, 10/2-10/16
Time: 9:30AM-3:30PM (includes 1/2 hour lunch break at noon)
Location: Sandwich Arts Alliance Center, 124 Route 6A, Sandwich
​Cost: $180 members/$210 non-members

All Levels Welcome
This workshop will introduce students to using photographs and sketches in the studio to complete a landscape painting on a larger format of canvas using a step by step process.
For the first hour of each morning I will begin with a discussion and a demonstration in oils on how to begin a  painting.  We will  discuss composition, value, and color and how to work with the color wheel. The rest of the day will be focused on the entire process of painting from start to finish: working first with sketches, then a value study to select a palette of colors to complete a painting. 
​The remaining rest of each day will be individual instruction and then the last half hour we will have a group critique where everyone will participate in their views on what they have accomplished as well as feedback to fellow artists and their progress of their paintings. 
Materials List:
  • The class is based on a limited palette of 3 colors and white and students can work in either acrylics or oils but not both at the same time. 
  • You will need a red, blue and a yellow tube of paint, the 3 primary colors, and a large tube of white. 
  • You won't be using every color every time but will chose 3 + White at a time with white to create your secondary colors.
​I have listed more than one blue, red and yellow.  If you choose to purchase more than three colors here are some suggestions:
  • Large tube of Titanium White
  • Cobalt Blue
  • Cerulean Blue
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Cadmium Red
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Alizarin Crimson 
  • Cadmium Yellow Medium
  • Cadmium Yellow Light or Lemon
  • Ivory Black or Mars Black (mixed with yellow makes great greens for landscape painting)
  • ​Color Wheel 

​You won't be using every color every time but will chose 3 + White at a time with white to create your secondary colors.
  • Palette
  • Palette Knife
  • Rags or paper towels and plastic bags for cleaning brushes and clean up
  • Assortment of brushes
  • Canvases: have a couple of canvases available for your painting. Examples: 5 X 7, 8 X 10, 9 X 12, 11 X 14, 16 X 20
  • Glass or metal cups, 2 or 3, with covers to hold water and mediums
  • 5 or 6 photographs enlarged to 5 X 7 prints of landscapes or pictures from magazines
  • Sketchpad or hard covered book and pencils
  • Ruler for creating grid for composition on canvas and in sketchbook
  • Masking tape
  • Foam core or other stable board for mounting 5 X 7 photo
  • Scissors for cutting out photos from magazines 

For Oils:
  • Liquin for oils 
  • Turpenoid and/or Mineral Spirits

For Acrylics:
  • A couple of plastic containers for water and medium
  • Matte Varnish and Medium (optional as you may choose to use just water for mixing your colors and washing your brushes
Class Registration closes 48 hours prior to the first class, as a courtesy to the instructor.  Some classes have limited enrollment so please register soon so you don’t miss out.

​To Register by Mail: Download registration form here
Instructor: Diana Lee
I am a painter and have been exhibiting, teaching and painting on the Cape for many years. My earliest influences as an artist come from my days as a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA  in the 1970’s.
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My teachers, Bill Flynn and Jack Clift not only the importance of skill, but also an individual’s unique philosophy of how they see the world.

Having spent a lot of time sketching the model at art school those drawing skills gave me the freedom and confidence to work with oils and pastels. I like working with the portrait and still life as well as the landscape for subject matter. 

When I moved to the Cape in the early 1980’s, I was returning to a place I have always loved and spent my summers in as a child.  It was a natural progression for me to begin painting the landscape and seascape here where I have always felt so much at home.

After raising my children, I returned to school in 2000, graduating Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Art Education at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in the Spring of 2003. 

I teach landscape painting at the Falmouth Art Center as well as my own private studio class at the Waquoit Congregational Church.  
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I enjoy using bright, bold colors in my compositions and work in oils, acrylics and pastels.

Some of my awards and recognition include being selected as an Emerging Artist by Cape Cod Life Magazine in1996 as well as in their Arts Edition in June 2012. I also was included in an article in the Cape Women Magazine in 1999.
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