Make your mountains magical by imagining them as vibrant triangles across the canvas. Artist Elyse Dodge will show you how to create your contemporary landscape acrylic painting starting with the computer and ending on canvas.
L.A.-based Canadian artist Elyse Dodge is best known for her boldly colored geometric landscapes. Her distinctive visual language explores the dualities of abstract and literal, light and dark and stillness and movement.
Raised in British Columbia, her artist mother and builder father taught her about craftsmanship - and to see her surroundings as shape and color. Deeply inspired by West Coast scenery, her deconstructed landscapes focus on the fractal shapes that make up our world, skillfully blending the freedom of impressionism with the precision of geometry. Her work serves as a reminder that things are not always what they seem, and that the whole exists only as the sum of its parts.
Elyse’s landscape paintings and illustrations are featured in homes across North America, galleries in Whistler, BC and Los Angeles as well as showcased through corporate clients like: TED Global, The Amazing Brentwood, Cadillac Fairview, Oxford Property Group and more.
This course will guide you through the process of developing a mood board, selecting a composition, building a digital mock-up, transferring your design onto a canvas and creating your own acrylic painting.
By the end of this course, I want you to feel like you have a basic foundation and understanding of how to design an illustration on the computer and paint your mock-up onto a canvas. These steps can be applied to different subject matter and styles and are meant to help you learn how to find your own aesthetic and medium of choice.
I loved the detail in which Elyse shared about her process. And how she showed each step. It was so cool to see the piece come together and so inspiring for myself to start my own! LOVE!
I loved the detail in which Elyse shared about her process. And how she showed each step. It was so cool to see the piece come together and so inspiring for myself to start my own! LOVE!
Read LessYou will be working in both digital and analog formats to create your landscape art. The digital portion includes working in Adobe Illustrator, so you will need to have that program on your computer—or a similar program you like to use—to create the mock-up you'll use for your final acrylic painting.
It's best to have some familiarity with the software, although Elyse will show you her step-by-step process.
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