Bennett Vadnais

Acrylic Landscape Painting

Bennett Vadnais

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  • In-depth Instruction; over 225 mins
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Meet Bennett Vadnais, learn about the materials you'll use and set up your workspace.
If you're working from a drawing or photo, see how to transfer important lines and shapes to your canvas.
Establish your painting's light and dark values and develop natural and architectural forms.
Understand how colors, tints and glazes differ and how to achieve the look you want.
Add layers of color to create the effects of sun and shadow and add depth to the sky.
Build up foreground and middle-ground shapes with more opacity.
Build up sky, trees and grasses with layers of color.
Refine architectural details with techniques such as dry brushing and hatching.
Further refine details, add rough glaze and complete the work.
 
 
9 Lessons
3  hrs 45  mins

If you’re looking to broaden your palette from oils or watercolors, or even have experience in acrylic, you’ll gain fresh insight through observing Vadnais’ classically inspired process. After an overview of tube vs. fluid colors, brushes, and panel preparation, Vadnais launches into the creation of a landscape, drawing on extensive training and experience as an artist in classical realism. The intimate studio setting allows you to see close-up how Vadnais transfers a drawing, builds a monochromatic underpainting to establish values, then creates both atmospheric effects and rigorously defined details with glazes and opaque painting methods. You’ll have a clear view of both palette and brush as Vadnais explains how he uses acrylic colors to achieve depth, luminosity and texture – techniques you can apply to your own practice. As questions arise, Vadnais is available to answer them and to give you feedback on your own work.

Bennett Vadnais

Awarded the American Society of Classical Realism’s first scholarship, Bennett Vadnais trained in the classical tradition at such schools as the Bougie Studio, the Water Street Atelier and the Art Students League of New York. He specializes in urban landscapes, and his work has been exhibited internationally. Vadnais teaches painting and drawing in New York City, and is excited to share his unique insights with artists on Craftsy!

Bennett Vadnais

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