Landscape & Color with Artist Amanda Bittner
JULY 12, 2025
Landscape & Color explores abstraction, color and mark through the lens of landscape painting. This workshop will briefly look at the traditional elements and principles of landscape painting, and use these tools to inform and create compelling abstract work of art. This workshop is designed to provide the structure necessary to enter an abstract painting language with intention and ease, while still providing space for freedom and intuition. Landscape & Color is designed to help the artist better understand composition, value, color, and most importantly, how to become a looser and more expressive painter.
What to expect: The morning will be spent exploring a few sequential exercises both onsite and in the studio and the afternoon will be painting plein air, outside. Amanda will demonstrate all exercises before artists embark on their own work. Artists will leave the class with preparatory composition and value studies and a miniature series of abstract landscape paintings on archival paper.
Event Timeline:
9am-12pm Workshop
12pm-1pm Delicious, seasonal farm lunch
1pm-4pm Workshop
Student material list:
Sketchbook, or few pieces of ~8x10 drawing paper
Writing/drawing utensil (pencil, pen, or marker)
Viewfinder (I recommend Viewcatcher or Guerilla Painter Composition FInder)
Paper Pad, 9x12 (I recommend Arches Oil Paper for oil painters, Canvas Paper for acrylic/oil painters, or any mixed media archival paper you usually work with.)
Paint Brushes, size small-medium (any any alternative applicators you normally use)
Field Easel (seat and umbrella optional)
Palette (I will be using 12x16 palette paper. Masterson Sta-Wet recommended for acrylic painters.)
Paper towels and/or rags
Water tin for acrylic painters
Oil paint, water-based oil or acrylic paint is welcome. The instructor will use water-based oil paint during demonstrations. There are no specific pigments required for this workshop, please bring what you normally use. I will be using:
Titanium White
Quinacridone Magenta
Napthol Red
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Lemon
Phthalo Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Burnt Umber
Preferred paint additives (Gamsol, Neoglip, Matte Medium)
Any additional materials for comfortably painting inside/outside (Field stool, sun hat, bugspray, sunscreen, etc).
Meet Amanda:
Amanda Bittner is an award-winning painter living and working in Beverly, MA. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Boston University and Bachelors of Fine Arts from Montserrat College of Art. Amanda is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Endicott College and teaches painting workshops at many organizations such as the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Cambridge Art Association, Sedona Arts Center, Vancouver Island Artist Workshops and Rocky Neck Art Colony where she sat on the Board of Trustees from 2021-2024. Amanda shares her creative practice with an online blog boasting over 25K followers, actively exhibits her work across the Northeast, and has work in private collections across the world. She is represented by Bromfield Gallery on 450 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Ma. Outside of the studio, Amanda is an avid hiker having climbed all 67 4,000’ mountains across New England.
JULY 12, 2025
Landscape & Color explores abstraction, color and mark through the lens of landscape painting. This workshop will briefly look at the traditional elements and principles of landscape painting, and use these tools to inform and create compelling abstract work of art. This workshop is designed to provide the structure necessary to enter an abstract painting language with intention and ease, while still providing space for freedom and intuition. Landscape & Color is designed to help the artist better understand composition, value, color, and most importantly, how to become a looser and more expressive painter.
What to expect: The morning will be spent exploring a few sequential exercises both onsite and in the studio and the afternoon will be painting plein air, outside. Amanda will demonstrate all exercises before artists embark on their own work. Artists will leave the class with preparatory composition and value studies and a miniature series of abstract landscape paintings on archival paper.
Event Timeline:
9am-12pm Workshop
12pm-1pm Delicious, seasonal farm lunch
1pm-4pm Workshop
Student material list:
Sketchbook, or few pieces of ~8x10 drawing paper
Writing/drawing utensil (pencil, pen, or marker)
Viewfinder (I recommend Viewcatcher or Guerilla Painter Composition FInder)
Paper Pad, 9x12 (I recommend Arches Oil Paper for oil painters, Canvas Paper for acrylic/oil painters, or any mixed media archival paper you usually work with.)
Paint Brushes, size small-medium (any any alternative applicators you normally use)
Field Easel (seat and umbrella optional)
Palette (I will be using 12x16 palette paper. Masterson Sta-Wet recommended for acrylic painters.)
Paper towels and/or rags
Water tin for acrylic painters
Oil paint, water-based oil or acrylic paint is welcome. The instructor will use water-based oil paint during demonstrations. There are no specific pigments required for this workshop, please bring what you normally use. I will be using:
Titanium White
Quinacridone Magenta
Napthol Red
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Lemon
Phthalo Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Burnt Umber
Preferred paint additives (Gamsol, Neoglip, Matte Medium)
Any additional materials for comfortably painting inside/outside (Field stool, sun hat, bugspray, sunscreen, etc).
Meet Amanda:
Amanda Bittner is an award-winning painter living and working in Beverly, MA. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Boston University and Bachelors of Fine Arts from Montserrat College of Art. Amanda is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Endicott College and teaches painting workshops at many organizations such as the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Cambridge Art Association, Sedona Arts Center, Vancouver Island Artist Workshops and Rocky Neck Art Colony where she sat on the Board of Trustees from 2021-2024. Amanda shares her creative practice with an online blog boasting over 25K followers, actively exhibits her work across the Northeast, and has work in private collections across the world. She is represented by Bromfield Gallery on 450 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Ma. Outside of the studio, Amanda is an avid hiker having climbed all 67 4,000’ mountains across New England.
JULY 12, 2025
Landscape & Color explores abstraction, color and mark through the lens of landscape painting. This workshop will briefly look at the traditional elements and principles of landscape painting, and use these tools to inform and create compelling abstract work of art. This workshop is designed to provide the structure necessary to enter an abstract painting language with intention and ease, while still providing space for freedom and intuition. Landscape & Color is designed to help the artist better understand composition, value, color, and most importantly, how to become a looser and more expressive painter.
What to expect: The morning will be spent exploring a few sequential exercises both onsite and in the studio and the afternoon will be painting plein air, outside. Amanda will demonstrate all exercises before artists embark on their own work. Artists will leave the class with preparatory composition and value studies and a miniature series of abstract landscape paintings on archival paper.
Event Timeline:
9am-12pm Workshop
12pm-1pm Delicious, seasonal farm lunch
1pm-4pm Workshop
Student material list:
Sketchbook, or few pieces of ~8x10 drawing paper
Writing/drawing utensil (pencil, pen, or marker)
Viewfinder (I recommend Viewcatcher or Guerilla Painter Composition FInder)
Paper Pad, 9x12 (I recommend Arches Oil Paper for oil painters, Canvas Paper for acrylic/oil painters, or any mixed media archival paper you usually work with.)
Paint Brushes, size small-medium (any any alternative applicators you normally use)
Field Easel (seat and umbrella optional)
Palette (I will be using 12x16 palette paper. Masterson Sta-Wet recommended for acrylic painters.)
Paper towels and/or rags
Water tin for acrylic painters
Oil paint, water-based oil or acrylic paint is welcome. The instructor will use water-based oil paint during demonstrations. There are no specific pigments required for this workshop, please bring what you normally use. I will be using:
Titanium White
Quinacridone Magenta
Napthol Red
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Lemon
Phthalo Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Burnt Umber
Preferred paint additives (Gamsol, Neoglip, Matte Medium)
Any additional materials for comfortably painting inside/outside (Field stool, sun hat, bugspray, sunscreen, etc).
Meet Amanda:
Amanda Bittner is an award-winning painter living and working in Beverly, MA. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Boston University and Bachelors of Fine Arts from Montserrat College of Art. Amanda is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Endicott College and teaches painting workshops at many organizations such as the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Cambridge Art Association, Sedona Arts Center, Vancouver Island Artist Workshops and Rocky Neck Art Colony where she sat on the Board of Trustees from 2021-2024. Amanda shares her creative practice with an online blog boasting over 25K followers, actively exhibits her work across the Northeast, and has work in private collections across the world. She is represented by Bromfield Gallery on 450 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Ma. Outside of the studio, Amanda is an avid hiker having climbed all 67 4,000’ mountains across New England.
