This foundational painting course focuses on the observation, understanding, and design of lighting and color to create an immersive landscape. Students will learn how to see and understand how color and lighting work through the study of nature around us. Through the studies, students will compose, experiment and push their colors based on these foundational skills learned from this class to create paintings that are rich in narrative mood yet grounded in reality.
You will receive all the class-related emails for this course about a week before the first day of class.
- CLASS #: 114
- TIME: Tuesdays, 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM (PDT)
- START DATE: June 10th, 2025
- (This class will be on break on July 15th & 22nd.)
- DURATION: 10 Weeks*
RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITE:
- Vis Com 1: Dynamic Sketching
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Some previous Photoshop painting experience
MATERIALS:
- Digital materials such as PC/Mac, Wacom Tablet/Cintiq, and Photoshop.
CLASS SYLLABUS: Click here
INSTRUCTOR: Mike Hernandez
Mike Hernandez is a Production Designer/ Visual Development Artist at Dreamworks Feature Animation. His past projects include "Sinbad", "Spirit", "Shrek 4", "Bee Movie", "Monsters vs Aliens" and "Turbo".
TIME ZONE: All CDA class days/times listed above are based on the Los Angeles PST/PDT time zone.
REFUND POLICY: For details about our class refund policy, please visit our "Refund Policy" and "Terms of Service" pages.
*Due to reasons such as instructor sick day, family emergencies, storm, earthquake, fire, flood, disease outbreak or other unforeseen circumstances, Concept Design Academy reserves the right to push any class back 1~2 weeks in schedule if necessary and change the class format to adjust for the emergency situation. Students are strongly recommended to plan their schedule with some flexibility in mind to avoid schedule conflicts.
*** Limit one seat purchase for each class per student. Multiple seat purchase of same class will not be honored. ***