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Composing Clear Narratives

🌄 Move past mere reference — build a story‑rich landscape.
In this 2‑hour live‑recorded workshop, Judd Mercer shows you how to construct a landscape painting with purpose: from value planning to palette harmony to narrative design.


You’ll learn how to:
🎯 Set up strong value structure that directs focus and design in your landscape.
🎨 Develop a color palette that evokes mood and supports your visual story. 
🔧 Work in a small‑scale gouache study to explore composition before committing to larger work. 
💡 Think like a visual storyteller — not just painting what you see, but shaping what the viewer feels.


Perfect for intermediate‑to‑advanced landscape artists who want to deepen their compositional clarity, design confidence, and narrative impact in their work. 🕒 Runtime: 2 hours.

  • Judd Mercer

    Instructor

  • Fundamental

    Difficulty
Meet your instructor

Judd Mercer

Judd Mercer is a contemporary landscape painter and Colorado native obsessed with telling stories through light. Working on plein air and in the studio, Judd explores the tension that exists between ourselves and the landscape and plays with our relationship to wild, exhilarating vastness. Always on the hunt for transient, magic moments that exist in secret places along roads less traveled, Judd seeks to capture the powerful wonder permeating even the quietest scenes. Judd works in both oil and gouache and frequently participates in plein air invitational events across the country.

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