RECORDINGS from an Understanding Trees in the Landscape course

What to expect:

These recordings are from my Spring 2026 three-session online class called Understanding Trees in the Landscape. Each session's recording is close to 2 hours long (together they total about 5 1/2 hours of class time). Three additional videos are various recorded demos we view in each class or opted to watch outside of class. These are from 24 to 40 minutes long. Total watch time for all videos: just over 7 hours. 

These rentals are Zoom quality recordings and are the same videos participating students received after each class, minus introductions from the first day for privacy purposes. There is no feedback offered from me during the two-month rental period.

I am offering rental access to the Zoom recordings from this class for a reduced fee of $250. These videos are NOT downloadable, you are renting the videos for a limited time. 

After renting, you will create a free Payhip login to access the videos. A very sincere thanks for your interest! 

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What You'll Learn:

In the recordings from her course, Julie offers her insights and process in rendering trees in her landscape paintings. The videos touch on materials, value, color, edges, composition, and design as they relate to trees as part of or primary subjects in a landscape painting. Julie shares tools that have been most helpful to her in thoughtfully designing trees in her work. She works in oils, techniques may vary with other mediums.

• Day 1: slides (focused practice, observation, building trees, main considerations, scale, value, character, gesture, studies), demos.
• Day 2: slides (a tree’s purpose, trunks and taper, sky holes, mixing greens, thoughtful use of color, active/passive), demos.
• Day 3: slides (Carlson's Theory of Angles, atmospheric perspective, where sky meets tree, cast shadow, bare trees, middle and far-distance trees, foregrounds), demos, wrap-up.

Helpful if you choose to do studies as workshop students did for the class:

• your painting setup
• photographs you’ve taken of trees
• Carlson’s Guide to Landscape Painting by John Carlson (optional, but every landscape artist should have a copy!)
• paint - artist’s grade – Your foundational color palette. I currently paint with a rotation of the following colors (I use a mix of Blue Ridge Oils, Gamblin, and Vasari - if I’m particular about a color and brand it is noted). Use whichever brand and palette you are used to unless you would like to try some of these:
  • Alizarin Permanent  
  • Transparent Red Oxide
  • Yellow Ochre
  • India Yellow (Gamblin)
  • Cadmium Yellow Lemon
  • Cadmium Yellow Deep (Gamblin)
  • Ultramarine Blue   
  • Cobalt Blue
  • Silver point (Vasari)
  • Jasper (Vasari)
  • Cedar (Vasari)  
  • Titanium White

• Gamsol or other oderless mineral spirits and solvent container*medium such as Galkyd Gel (or Lite or Regular), or Gamblin Solvent-Free Gel
• brushes - I generally use Rosemary & Co. Ivory flats or filberts in sizes #2, #4, #6 and #8 (use your favorite good quality hog bristle brushes in that range), and small rounds size 1 or 2.
• panels – For plein air work and studies I use inexpensive panels or those I have repurposed with oil-based primer. For studio work, RayMar L22U are my favorite, but Source Tek and Wind River Arts also make / carry high quality panels. Use what you are accustomed to. Choose small sizes you are comfortable with, such as 6 x 8, 8 x 10, or 9 x 12, and at least one 12 x 16. I often reformat 12 x 16s down to smaller sizes with tape for studies.