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Studio Mindset Landscape Plein Air Gouache Oil Painting Landscape by Ellie Wilson

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The Studio Mindset

🌿 Soar past mental blocks and cultivate a true studio mindset. In this tutorial, Ellie Wilson shows how to shift from plein-air studies to fully realized studio paintings — teaching the principles she uses to create masterful, gallery-quality works. Learn to approach your painting as a complete composition, not just a collection of sketches.


You’ll learn how to:
🧠 Flip the switch from field spontaneity to deliberate studio thinking
📐 Construct a strong linear design that guides the viewer through your work
🎨 Look for color harmony and cohesive value relationships across the painting
🖌️ Apply techniques that balance control and painterly energy for refined, expressive results


Perfect for artists who want to transition from quick outdoor studies to confident, polished studio work — slowing down, thinking bigger, and creating cohesive, compelling paintings. 🕒 Runtime: 2+ hours

  • Ellie Wilson

    Instructor

  • Advanced

    Difficulty
Meet your instructor

Ellie Wilson

Ellie's life as an artist started at a young age and the path to her art career seemed to have happened effortlessly. She was born and raised in the Wasatch Mountains, which instilled in her a passion for nature and beauty. The first time Ellie went Plein Air painting with the mountains surrounding her and a brush in hand she was hooked, and decided to specialize in landscape painting. When she graduated with a BFA, she sold out her solo show and launched into her career as a professional artist. Since then she have been painting tirelessly, working to master a variety of scenes in over 6 states and 18 countries around the world. 

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