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Friday & Saturday, November 6–710:00 AM–4:00 PM
All Levels, no experience necessary
Number of Students: Max 10
$300, Supplies Needed, Lunch Included on Saturday
How do you take a photograph filled with information and turn it into a painting?
In this two-day oil painting workshop, artist Alisa Beck will guide beginner to intermediate painters through the process of simplifying the landscape—learning to look beyond the details of a photograph and identify the shapes, values, colors, and relationships that make a landscape compelling.
Participants will work from their own landscape photographs, learning how to edit the reference, strengthen the composition, establish large areas of light and dark, mix harmonious color, and develop a painting without feeling obligated to copy every detail.
Through demonstrations, group discussion, and individual instruction, Alisa will share her approach to building a landscape painting and how to turn intuition into decisions.
During the workshop, we will explore:
Choosing and cropping a strong photographic reference
Simplifying complicated landscapes into large shapes
Creating a stronger composition by leaving things out
Understanding value, light, and atmospheric depth
Mixing intentional landscape colors
Using warm and cool color relationships
Using edges, brushwork, palette knife, and paint application expressively
Moving beyond the photograph to create a painting that feels personal
The goal is not to reproduce a photograph—it is to use the photograph as a starting point and discover what the painting needs.
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Event venue
215 20th ST N, Birmingham, AL, United States, Alabama 35203
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