What You'll Rent
These recordings are from my Spring 2026 three-session online class called Understanding Trees in the Landscape. Each session's recording is about 2 hours long (together they total about 5 1/2 hours of class time). Three additional videos are various recorded demos we viewed in each class or opted to watch outside of class. These are from 24 to 40 minutes long. Total watch time for all videos: just over 7 hours.
The rentals are Zoom quality recordings and are the same videos participating students received after each class, minus introductions from the first day for privacy purposes. There is no feedback offered from me during the two-month rental period.
What You'll Learn
In the recordings from her course, Julie offers her insights and process in rendering trees in her landscape paintings. The videos touch on materials, value, color, edges, composition, and design as they relate to trees as part of or primary subjects in a landscape painting. Julie shares tools that have been most helpful to her in thoughtfully designing trees in her work. Julie works in oils, techniques may vary with other mediums.
Day 1: slides (focused practice, building trees, main considerations, scale, value, character, gesture, studies), demos.
Day 2: slides (a tree's purpose, trunks and taper, sky holes, mixing greens, thoughtful use of color, active/passive), demos.
Day 3: slides (Carlson's Theory of Angles, atmospheric perspective, where sky meets tree, cast shadow, bare trees, middle and far-distance trees, foregrounds), walk-through of images on Pinterest, recommended reading, demos, wrap-up.
