Landscape Painting with Lana Daubermann

Can you complete 4 paintings in 2 hours and be totally engaged in each step of the process? A definite YES from 14 enthusiastic participants who exercised their artistic muscles in a fast-paced series of learning exercises, expertly led by Lana Daubermann. It was also a night of sevens! Using our preferred mediums (some used acrylics, some oils, some pastels, some pencils), we started by representing our allocated landscape in 7 minutes, making speedy decisions about features like colour, line/brush work and focus.

Next, we were challenged to break the same composition down in to 7 shapes, with some surprising abstract landscapes emerging. Our next challenge was to undertake the same landscape in 7 brush strokes, ensuring that our brushes were sufficiently well loaded. Finally, we infused a particular mood or feeling into the same landscape, selecting colours, strokes, blending techniques or line work to fit the emotion. A lot of fun was had afterwards guessing the mood of each other’s renditions!

Our efforts were gently guided by Lana, who demonstrated each of these approaches before letting us power through our own and shared our accomplishments with lovely encouragement. The landscape painters in the group commented that these techniques will be invaluable in their plein air painting, where speed is of the essence.

Thanks Lana for a fun and thoroughly educational evening!

Lana will be running a 2 day weekend workshop for HBAS members at Woods Street Art Space on 10th and 11th August, so watch this space for more information.

Check out more of Lana’s work on her website: https://www.lanadaubermann.com/