Mike Hernandez – Transcending Landscape: Painting and Design (Online); February 1-22, 2024

Date: Thursdays, February 1-22, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM Pacific Time, 1:00-3:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00-8:00 PM London Time
Level: All
Medium: All

In this 4-week class with award-winning artist Mike Hernandez, set yourself up for a successful painting and dicover ways to take your existing or new works to the next level by focusing on composition, natural color and light, shape vocabulary and mark making. Learn how to start a painting by creating a comprehensive approach in simplified steps and identifying the pitfalls of a bad composition in advance.

The class will be broken up into 4 sections: fundamentals of composition and shape design, establishing your values and lighting, color and it’s complexities and adding texture and making final touches. Mike will provide hands-on individualized critiques.

A native Angeleno, Mike Hernandez is a plein air painter skilled in gouache, oil and acrylic, who’s works have been featured in several on-line publications as well as galleries. His process began as a young child, painting still life images. Influenced by the likes of Edgar Payne, Sorolla and Franz Bischoff, Mike soon explored the foundations of color and light in the outdoors – striving to find the beauty in the ordinary. With a palette that resides at the crossroads between industrial and landscapes, he finds inspiration anywhere from the Eastern Sierra range to the muddy concrete banks of the Los Angeles River. Mike studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, graduating with a B.A. in 1998. Currently he is a Production Designer at Dreamworks Animation as well as a nation-wide sought-after workshop instructor. His works can be found in several private collections around the world.