Wayne Jiang – Apply Color Recipes to Landscape Paintings (Online); Fridays, January 16-30, 2026

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Mediums: All mediums welcome
Level: All levels welcome
Class Dates: Fridays, January 16-30, 2026
Class Times:
• 10:00 am-12:30 pm Pacific Time
• 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Eastern Time
• 6:00 pm-8:30 pm UK Time

Spice up your landscape paintings with tried-and-true imaginative color combinations!

In cooking, a recipe is a set of instructions for preparing a particular dish, including a list of suggested ingredients. In painting, there are also recipes for particular subject matters and painting styles. Except the ingredients are the color combinations and the set of instructions are how to mix and apply these colors together to achieve the right effect.

In this workshop, we’ll apply tried and true landscape color recipes Wayne learned over the years as well as color recipes from some of the best-known landscape paintings in art history. I’ll be guiding you in your exploration of color recipes to a more color rich territory.

The slideshows, color study exercises, and painting assignments in this workshop have been designed to help you learn how I learned over the years.

You’ll learn how to:

· Use simple color theory concepts and logic to determine why some color combinations work and why others don’t;
· Identify the main, supporting, and accent colors in a color recipe from a painting by a well-known artist;
· Determine the color saturation levels and which areas to apply each color in a color recipe;
· Create subtle variations for each color in your color recipes in muted and saturated forms and apply them to your paintings.

All color mediums are welcome in this class (oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, color pencil, and procreate). The painting demos will be done with acrylic.

This workshop will include painting demos, slideshow presentations, student work feedback sessions, and eye training exercises. This combination of activities are designed to help refine your painting techniques and observation skills. Photo references will be provided for all painting assignments. More experienced students can use their own photo references.