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La Jolla Plein Air

🌊 Paint where land meets water—and let nature teach you the language of light and atmosphere. In this immersive plein-air demo, Tayler Olivas takes you to the cliffs, waves, and golden light of La Jolla, guiding you step-by-step through capturing coastal landscapes with purpose and clarity. 

You’ll learn how to:
🎨 Observe and paint outdoors—read changing light, shifting air, and the interplay of land and sea in real time.
📐 Simplify complex coastal scenes into strong value-and‐shape structures so your painting remains coherent from sketch to finish.
🌿 Create depth, movement, and mood—use tone, color, and edge to anchor the eye through terrain, water and sky.
💡 Make confident decisions on-site—so your plein air work stays loose, expressive, and full of life, not over-worked or tentative.

Perfect for artists of all levels who want to strengthen their painting in the field—especially those ready to translate outdoor energy into work that reads strong indoors too. Runtime: 1+ hour

  • Tayler Olivas

    Instructor

  • Fundamental

    Difficulty
Meet your instructor

Tayler Olivas

Tayler is a Visual Development Artist, Art Director, and professor in the film and games industry. Tayler's work has been showcased in numerous games, cinematics, and marketing materials for brands like Gucci, Team Fight Tactics, Spider-Man 2, Insomniac Games, Riot Games and Elodie. When not working on client projects, Tayler teaches at Laguna College of Art and Design in Southern California.

Tayler's expertise spans various digital media, including Adobe Photoshop CC, Blender, Zbrush, 3DCoat, Substance Painter, and Marmoset Toolbag, as well as traditional media like gouache, watercolor, oil paint, and markers (Copic and Prismacolor). Tayler holds a bachelor's degree in game art from Laguna College of Art and Design, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.

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