Imaginative Landscapes


Welcome to our page 'Drawing & Painting: Imaginative Landscapes' where I will be sharing with you some of the resources and activities of our course. Enjoy!!!

CLASS 1 (02/05/19) - Initial exercise



Click here to read the step-by-step description of how to draw this landscape by Diane Wright.

CLASS 2 (09/05/19) - Drawing trees


Click on the photo below to see the pictures of trees that we used in class.



CLASS 3 (16/05/19) - Sketching trees outdoors (The Dingle)



Homework: Exercise on abstraction. Produce a non-realistic drawing or painting of a landscape.

Some examples of abstract landscapes:


Peter Wileman


Paul Balmer


Paul Balmer


Erin Hanson

CLASS 4 (23/05/19) - Drawing skies and clouds

Click on the image below to open the presentation:





CLASS 5 (06/06/19) - Colour exercises

Colour schemes
Image result for colour extraction landscapes
















Click on the image below to open the presentation on Surreal Landscapes:



Homework: Exercise on Surrealism. Produce a Surreal drawing or painting of a landscape.

CLASS 6 (11/06/19) - Drawing & painting rocks and mountains

Click on the image below to open the presentation:



CLASS 7 (19/06/19) - Sketching outdoors: the River Severn




CLASS 8 (26/06/19) - Painting water


Click below to open the video on how to paint a Cornish harbour in acrylics:



Download the reference photo here.

Read here the tutorial on how to paint this seascape by Will Kemp.

CLASSES 9 & 10 (4 and 11/07/19) - Final projects

Thank you for all your hard work, inspiration and creativity! I hope you enjoyed our course and learnt new things. These are some photos of the works that you produced during these 10 weeks. Well done! Keep up the good work!

Have a lovely summer and I hope to see you very soon!

Alberto Pitalua





Links and materials of the previous course CREATIVE LANDSCAPES 2017