Landscape Oil Painting with Plein-air Techniques
A course by Diana Buitrago , Realist Painter
Learn how to paint atmospheric landscapes that capture natural light using plein-air techniques
Learn how to paint atmospheric landscapes that capture natural light using plein-air techniques
Painting a natural landscape can transport you to a calmer, more peaceful world. However, on rainy days or when stuck in the city, adapting plein-air techniques indoors can help take you to that idyllic space just the same. Realist painter Diana Buitrago is here to teach you how to paint captivating scenery from the comfort of your home.
In this online course, learn how to compose and paint natural landscapes in oil using Plein-air techniques. Transform a photograph or your own sketches into a vibrant oil painting. By the end of the course, you will be able to recreate natural light in your landscape paintings.
What will you learn in this online course?
21 lessons & 26 downloads
- 99% positive reviews (136)
- 4,275 students
- 21 lessons (4h 12m)
- 26 additional resources (12 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: English
- English · Spanish · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
What is this course's project?
Paint a studio landscape using oil painting techniques in four layers: block-in, under-painting, first color pass, and final revision (or over-pass layer).
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
This course welcomes oil painters with moderate, little, or no experience in landscape painting, as well as more experienced painters looking for more guidance.
Requirements and materials
To take this course, you need:
⦁painting tubes of different colors
⦁brushes, an easel, a palette
⦁a space with natural or artificial light
⦁drawing materials such as paper, pencils, charcoal, eraser, among others.
Reviews
A course by Diana Buitrago
Diana Buitrago is a classically-trained realist painter from Colombia. She’s currently based in Jersey City, and works in New York City. The focus of her work is on both landscape painting and portrait painting from life. She’s received extensive formal artistic training at the Art Students League, Artistic Anatomy coursework at Drexel University's School of Medicine, and the four-year Core Program at the Grand Central Atelier. She has studied under artists Michael Grimaldi, Dan Thompson, Jon DeMartin, Jacob Collins, and Colleen Barry. Her work has been exhibited in New York in Eleventh Street Arts Gallery, Robert Simon Fine Art, Salmagundi Club, The Phyllis Harriman Gallery, and as well as at the Colombian Embassy in New York.
She now teaches painting to the advanced students in the Core Program at the Grand Central Atelier. She’s also taught workshops for The Art Students League of New York and in other institutions around the world such as Paris, Vienna, and Mexico City. When she’s not teaching, she’s at home painting in her studio or out traveling painting landscapes en Plein-air. In 2018, she was awarded a Fellowship with The La Napoule Foundation, which took her to the South of France to paint the beautiful Côte d'Azur. She’s also a four-time Hudson River Fellow, which allowed her to paint breathtaking landscapes in New Hampshire, New York’s Hudson Valley, and Connecticut. In 2019, her painting “Portrait of a Young Dancer” won a certificate of Excellence from the Portrait Society of America.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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About Me
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Influences
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U2
Fundamentals of Landscape Painting
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The Materials
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Nature as a Major Inspiration
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Landscape Elements and Pictorial Planes
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U3
Compositional Studies and Sketches
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Thumbnail Sketches and Draw-In 1
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Thumbnail Sketches and Draw-In 2
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Studio Setup, Lighting, and Toning the Canvas
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Value and Color Studies 1
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Value and Color Studies 2
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Value and Color Studies 3
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U4
Developing the Studio Painting: The First Two Layers
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The First Layer: Block-In
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The Second Layer: Underpainting
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U5
Developing the Studio Painting: The Third Layer
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The Sky and Deep Space
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The Middle Ground
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The Foreground 1
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The Foreground 2
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U6
Revisions and Corrections: The Fourth Layer
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Revision, Glazes, Scumbling, and Impasto 1
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Revision, Glazes, Scumbling, and Impasto 2
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Varnish and Preservation of the Painting
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Painting Outdoors: Plein-Air Gear
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FP
Final project
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Landscape Oil Painting with Plein-air Techniques
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What to expect from a Domestika course
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FAQs
Domestika's courses are online classes that provide you with the tools and skills you need to complete a specific project. Every step of the project combines video lessons with complementary instructional material, so you can learn by doing. Domestika's courses also allow you to share your own projects with the teacher and with other students, creating a dynamic course community.
All courses are 100% online, so once they're published, courses start and finish whenever you want. You set the pace of the class. You can go back to review what interests you most and skip what you already know, ask questions, answer questions, share your projects, and more.
The courses are divided into different units. Each one includes lessons, informational text, tasks, and practice exercises to help you carry out your project step by step, with additional complementary resources and downloads. You'll also have access to an exclusive forum where you can interact with the teacher and with other students, as well as share your work and your course project, creating a community around the course.
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barbar
Ich finde diesen Kurs sehr hilfreich und gut konzipiert
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chaguelas
Muy Interesante
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erzbettia
This course is a real gem regarding content and in teaching style! Absolutely 5 stars and over!
elias_rivera
Esta muy bien!
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michelebajona
Teacher PlusThis course comes highly recommended, Diana is an exceptional teacher and adds important concepts to landscape painting that are very useful in order to master this subject. I like how this approach focuses on studio work, the additional resources are very useful! Thank you Diana