Plein Air Landscape Painting: Outdoor Study to Studio

Are you a plein air painter looking to take your painting to the next level?  Head for the studio!  Bringing the paintings you did in the field to the studio and using them as references for more finished paintings is the best way to improve.  This course will show you just how to do that in lectures and videos.

In this course, I'll show you how to properly gather reference material in the field (photographs, color studies, pencil drawings,) and then I'll take you indoors, where I'll give you several methods to create studio paintings based on these references. 

Even though the demonstrations will be in oil or pastel, the methods apply to any medium, even acrylic, watercolor and gouache.

Although the course is marked as suitable for "All Levels," it is suggested that you have some experience with both outdoor painting and your medium of choice.  If you are a beginner in plein air painting, please consider taking my beginning courses, "Plein Air Essentials:  Learn Basics of Plein Air Painting,"  "Plein Air Essentials:  Oil Supplement" and "Plein Air Essentials: Pastel Supplement."  It'll be worth your time!

New to Plein Air Painting?

Or just looking to take your plein air painting to the next level? Whether you paint in oil, pastel, acrylic, watercolor or some other medium, you'll find help in these videos, authored by artist Michael Chesley Johnson.You'll also find plein air painting workshops and plein air painting instruction.

Looking for a workshop?

Michael teaches two programs.  Paint The Southwest offers two workshops in Sedona, Arizona, in fall and spring.  It also offers a private, one-on-one intensive program based at Michael's studio in New Mexico.  Plein Air Painting Maine offers workshops in July and August in Lubec, Maine. Both are great places for a plein air painting experience. Michael specializes in small-size workshops He also teaches elsewhere in the US and Canada.