CSPN-112-SU01-2026: Landscape Painting
This introductory course guides students through historical and contemporary approaches to landscape painting while developing foundational skills in composition, perspective, colour, value, and spatial depth. Through demonstrations, guided exercises, studio practice, and critique, students will learn how to organize foreground, middle ground, and background; use tracing paper and sketchbook studies to explore composition; and mix acrylic colour to suggest light, distance, atmosphere, and mood.
Working with acrylic paint on paper, in sketchbook studies, and on canvas, students will move from observation and plein-air-inspired methods toward studio-based painting, semi-abstract interpretation, and intuitive approaches to landscape. Group and individual critiques will help students strengthen their visual language, discuss artwork with confidence, and refine their personal painting direction.
assessment methods
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LEARNING OUTCOME (as per the Course Outline) |
PASS (P) Standard |
FAIL (F) Standard |
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Explore landscape painting through analysis, observation, and diverse techniques. |
The student explores landscape painting from a range of perspectives, including observation, historical and contemporary references, and approaches to working from indoor and/or outdoor sources in response to nature. |
The student shows limited engagement with landscape painting. Work demonstrates minimal evidence of observation, analysis, historical or contemporary references, or exploration of different approaches to depicting the natural environment. |
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Learnt different methodologies of creating comprehensive compositions using color theory and pictorial devices |
The student demonstrates an expanded understanding of how depth and pictorial space can be achieved through colour theory, value, scale, overlap, atmospheric perspective, and the arrangement of foreground, middle ground, and background. |
The student is unable to demonstrate how colour, value, composition, or pictorial devices can be used to create depth or diminish space in a landscape painting. |
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The exploration of a variety of different paint and painting tool applications expanding visual language in painting |
The student uses a range of painting tools, techniques, and applications to create varied surfaces, marks, textures, and visual effects in their painting practice |
The student relies on a limited range of paint applications and tools, resulting in paintings that show little variety, experimentation, or development of visual language. |
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Analysis of historical or contemporary landscape painters to enhance ones one development in painting techniques, composition and paint application |
The student evaluates and decodes historical and/or contemporary landscape paintings, demonstrating an increased understanding of composition, painting process, paint application, and the history of landscape painting. |
The student does not adequately analyze historical or contemporary landscape painters, limiting their understanding of how composition, technique, paint application, and ideas are developed in landscape painting. |
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Participate in critique and |
The student participates in group and individual critiques, reflects on feedback, and uses discussion to improve their understanding of their own work and the work of others. |
The student participates minimally or not at all in critiques and reflection, showing limited ability to discuss, interpret, or revise artwork in response to feedback. |
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- Teacher: Lori Goldberg