Intimidated by drawing?
Inexperienced in drawing the landscape?
Unsure of how to create linear perspective in your drawings?
Unable to create the illusion of three dimensional form in your drawings?
Would you like to explore different drawing mediums like charcoal and pen and ink?
Would you like to learn how to use drawing as a way to gather reference material for your landscape paintings?
Would you like to learn how drawing can help you learn to compose better landscape paintings?
Welcome and Introduction
FREE PREVIEWMaterials and Reading List
FREE PREVIEWReading Assignment
Why Draw
FREE PREVIEWWhy Master Copies?
Carlson's Theory of Angles
FREE PREVIEWLearning to See Value Accurately
How To Hold Your Pencil
How to Sharpen a Pencil
Using Your Value Isolator
How to BUG
Full Collection of Master Drawings
Comparative Measurement - Master Copies
Contour, Marks and Darks
More on Contour, Marks and Darks (CMD)
Suggestions for Mark Making
Drawing Tips
Tree Structure
Assignment #1 – Part 1
Assignment #1 - Part 2
Assignment #1 – Part 3
Assignment #1 – Part 4
Shading and Form
Examples of Shading
Foreshortening
Tips for Working in the Field
Assignment #2 – Part 1
Assignment #2 – Part 2
Assignment #2 - Part 3
Assignment #2 – Part 4
Introduction to Mass Drawing
Perspective – Drawing Streams and Rivers
Perspective - Grasses
Perspective - Illustration of Leaning Trees
Deborah Paris is an American landscape painter, author, and teacher. She is the founder of The Landscape Atelier, her teaching studio, and the author of Painting the Woods: Nature, Memory and Metaphor (Texas A&M University Press 2020). Based on a foundation of intense and close observation, drawing, memory, and imagination, her work explores an intuitive connection to and her experience of nature.
Deborah’s work is represented by galleries throughout the US. She has been featured in Art of the West, American Painting Video Magazine, American Artist, Southwest Art, The Pastel Journal and Professional Artist Magazine. Her work has been shown at the Laguna Art Museum, the Albuquerque Museum of Art, the Panhandle-Plains Museum, the Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, The National Wildlife Museum, and the Gilcrease Museum.
When she isn’t painting or teaching, Deborah is an avid walker, birder, naturalist, reader, and writer. She lives and works in northeast Texas.
Visit Deborah at her website – https://www.deborahparis.com
For more about Deborah’s teaching philosophy and online learning, you can listen to this podcast.
“When covid hit, I decided to take on-line classes and workshops to elevate my painting skills. I wanted to take a deep dive to fill in the skills I was missing. I have signed up for every class Deborah offers. I am thrilled with what I am learning and how it is advancing my painting skills.”
Susan Powers
“My landscape art has improved so much because of the Landscape Atelier with Deborah Paris. Her classes simplify the complex nature of landscape art. Deborah’s classes helped me breakdown the landscape so I could focus and improve on one part at a time. Deborah’s classes will help you find your visual voice in landscape art.”
Kathy Wood
“After finishing a year of classes at the Landscape Atelier, I can honestly say that Deborah is not only a top-notch artist but also a gifted teacher. She brings her experience as an artist to teaching with a generosity of spirit that make her classes both instructive and fun. The interactive online setting with not just Deborah but also the fellow artists who participate in her classes adds to the overall experience.”
Susanne Jantsch
“Deborah is a world-class teacher. She is thorough, thoughtful, kind, and very skilled. This atelier is the place where week by week you build on your skills and understanding with lesson plans, exercises, video demonstrations and zoom meetings. You have a sense of community with the other students and her platform allows you to see other people’s work for her appraisal and for yours. She replies quickly, kindly, thoroughly.”
Maggie Parkinson
“The Landscape Atelier offers a comprehensive set of courses for developing skills as a landscape artist. Deborah Paris is an excellent instructor who has put together a package of course materials that provides guidance and inspiration. I am on my seventh course, and the way the lessons from each course connect and build on each other has been very powerful in underscoring key concepts.”
Susan J.
“Deborah Paris’ deep appreciation for the fundamentals of her craft, her intimate approach to the natural world, and her enthusiasm for teaching the traditions of landscape painting is what makes the Landscape Atelier such a special place. It is a profound place for artistic development.”
Rob Wellings
You may enroll in an On Demand course at any time.
Yes, you will retain access to the course materials and videos after the course ends for as long as the site is up.
No. On Demand classes contain all of the same written and video content as the Full Access classes, but there is no course community or instructor feedback.
Please see our cancellation policy on the “About Our Courses” page.
The courses on drawing, values, and composition would be appropriate for an artist working in any medium. Other classes involve techniques in oil painting, and all demonstrations are in oil.
The courses in drawing, color mixing, composition, and values would be appropriate for beginners. The other courses require some basic understanding of oil paint and how to apply it. They would be best for those with at least a year or two of experience working in oil. Our Creative Development courses are best for artists with at least two years of experience working in oil.
The materials list for each class is available as a free lesson. Click on “Free Preview” above to access that lesson.
Absolutely! You can upgrade for just $130. Contact us at [email protected] for a one-time discount coupon which you can apply to the purchase of the Full Access version of your On Demand course. Let us know which course you want to upgrade in your email, please!