Landscape Symbols Workshop with Johannes Vloothuis Video Download

Description

This unique online workshop is designed to strengthen common problems artists have with the language of the landscape. The success of landscape painting is precisely in the design of its symbols, which need to substitute and represent the real outdoor objects. Once you can develop these landscape symbols, you can repeat them over and over in new paintings, just like when we write we use letters to form words, thus simplifying the paint process. The transition from nature to the painting is where the training is necessary.

After seeing the work of hundreds of artists from all levels, master painter and art instructor, Johannes Vloothuis, has compiled and identified most of the universal problematic areas of painting. In this workshop, he will share his step-by-step procedures, as well as identify the common painting pitfalls. Johannes has compiled approximately 200 pointers from himself and other top artists and lays them all out for you for easy understanding. Your paintings will only be as good as these pointers you apply. Demonstrations are given in oils, watercolor and pastel.

You’ll find art instruction on the following landscape elements:

• Trees with foliage
• Bare trees
• Evergreens
• Rocks
• Waterfalls
• Seascape waves
• Grass and snow
• Mountains
• Backgrounds
• Ice
• Buildings
• Skies
• Flowers
• Backgrounds

About Johannes Vloothuis:
Since 2011, Johannes has taught live online art workshops for Artists Network.

Johannes Vloothuis, or Jo, as he likes to be called, has a large following of students because he has been able to verbalize in easy-to-understand terms the complexity of the subjective beauty of art. He feels that by teaching his students the ‘why’ behind a technique, the ‘how’ follows by default. He is adept in all the most popular mediums and artists of any medium will benefit with his instruction.

Jo has received several awards such as the top prize in the country of Mexico granted by the Watercolor Museum, the prestigious Pastel Society of America listed him under “Masterful Artists”  and has inspired and helped grow the skills of  over 18,000 artists. He uses positive reinforcement because he believes there is no such thing as a bad painting because the moment there is a creation from a human it is beautiful because it expresses something. “Nothing is worse than a blank canvas”, he says.