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Beginners Guide to Landscape Painting

🌿 Build landscapes that feel alive from the ground up. In this 2+ hour foundational demo, Bryan Mark Taylor teaches you the principles and decision-making behind convincing plein air landscapes—so you move beyond copying scenes and start creating them with intention.

You’ll learn how to:
🎨 Analyze and simplify complex scenery into readable, unified shapes
📐 Use perspective, scale, and value structure to build believable depth
🖌️ Balance detail and suggestion—knowing when to stop refining
🧠 Develop a workflow that keeps momentum, avoids “muddy zones,” and respects light

Perfect for painters who want to grow confidence in laying down landscapes—from plein air studies to studio work—with clarity, structure, and visual purpose. 🕒 Runtime: 2+ hours

  • Bryan Mark Taylor

    Instructor

  • Fundamental

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Meet your instructor

Bryan Mark Taylor

A painter, lecturer, entrepreneur, and world traveler Bryan Mark Taylor is a renaissance man. He makes regular contributions to art and design magazines including Plein Air and Imagine FX.
Bryan is a sought-after teacher and lecturer and has taught courses worldwide, including at the Academy of Art University, Pixar, and the Scottsdale Artists School. In addition, Bryan has been a featured speaker at the Plein Air, CTNX, Fantastic Arts, Dragonsteel, and VisionX conferences.
Bryan has traveled around the globe, carefully observing and capturing nature’s miracles.

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