Landscape in Acrylic

Landscape painting is one of the most satisfying subjects in art — and acrylic paint is the perfect medium to start with. Fast-drying and forgiving, acrylics let you work boldly and make changes quickly.

Igor Naskalov will walk you through his process for translating a scene into a painting: simplifying forms into shapes, building from background to foreground, and using color temperature to create atmosphere and depth. You work from a reference image and leave with a complete painting on canvas board.

What you’ll learn

• How to simplify a scene into paintable shapes
• Atmospheric perspective
• Building a painting in layers: sky, middle ground, foreground
• Brush handling and paint consistency for acrylics

What to bring

• Acrylic paint set (titanium white, sky blue, earth tones, greens)
• Canvas board or primed cardboard A3/A4
• Soft synthetic brushes #0–8
• Disposable palette or white plate

Class size: 8–12 students (minimum 5 to run) · Ages: 12+ · Languages: English · Russian · Italian

Who is Igor Naskalov?

Igor Naskalov is a classically trained Russian painter and one of the foremost instructors of Old Masters techniques working today. He currently serves as Chairman of Painting at the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Moscow – the same institution that has trained generations of Russia’s finest artists – where he also leads student programs at the State Hermitage Museum.

Igor’s teaching takes him across the world. He has led workshops and masterclasses at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy and the Dutch Atelier of Realist Art in Haarlem, Netherlands, working with serious students of painting from Europe, Russia, and the United States. This summer, he completed a program at the Hermitage Museum with 22 students before bringing his work to South Florida.

He is the co-author of Drawing Drapery, an academic instructional book on the history and classical technique of depicting textiles — a staple subject in the European painting tradition.

Igor teaches in English, Russian, and Italian, and his classes are designed to give students of all levels a genuine experience of how the great painters of Europe actually worked — not a simplified version of it, but the real thing, adapted to where you are right now as an artist.