Lesson Description
Images are copyrighted by Shanna Kunz. As of member of STREAM Inspired to Paint, you are allowed to paint from these images for personal use only. You are not allowed to paint from these images and then put a painting in a show or a gallery for sale. If you paint from the image and post to social media, we ask that you credit Shanna and STREAM Inspired to Paint with the original painting.
Finished painting by Shanna Kunz
ABOUT THE ARTIST
As a contemporary landscape painter, my work is a conscious play of mood, light and color, but as a naturalist raised and rooted in the diverse landscapes of western America, a painting means more than that to me. Each location is an encounter of spirit with the land, the trees, and the waters that have always given me a sense of connection and order. When a location intrigues and inspires me, I will paint the scene into a series using a range of keys or themes, experimenting and searching to learn more about the natural threads that tie the landscape together with complexity, subtlety and more importantly balance. I look for new ways to express spatial relationships and distance with layers of paint, brushwork, gradations, and diffusions of light. Hopefully, my study of the landscape will bring me somewhat closer to an honest translation of both soul and land as I push color and value into new compositions and continue a lifelong effort to communicate the emotional connection I feel with my environment.
She also has an online mentorship course Inspired to Paint with her good friend Elizabeth Robbins
