PLEASE BOOK AND PAY BY 20 MARCH 2026

9:30am to 4:00pm

Morning Tea Included - BYO MUG

Oksana Stevens is a self-taught oil landscape painter originally from Belgium, now based on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, where she moved in 2024 with her family. She has been practising her art seriously since 2017 and previously studied at the Mechelen Art Academy in Belgium, where she developed strong academic foundations in drawing, figure work and portraiture.

Oksana’s greatest passion is plein air landscape painting. Working directly from life, she seeks to capture the immediacy of a moment and translate the vibration, light and energy of the landscape onto the canvas. She is deeply inspired by the way a fleeting impression, once painted, continues to resonate with life and atmosphere. Her work is best described as realistic impressionism, focused on capturing mood,light and colour harmony rather than strict detail. All of her studio work is informed by time spent painting outdoors and by the sketches and studies created on location.

In this workshop,participants will explore how to create a strong sense of light, atmosphere and depth in landscape painting. Working from reference, you will learn how to translate what you observe into vibrant colour harmonies that evoke a sense of place. The workshop will focus on understanding how light moves from light into shadow and on mixing all colours from the three primaries, building confidence in colour mixing and developing paintings where colours truly sing together.

Materials List

Surface: -  not  too big to be able to finish it during the workshop

·     Stretched  canvas or canvas on board or gessoboard– 20cm x 30cm or 30cm x 40cm

Brushes:

·    Long Flat or  Filbert Bristle Brushes – various sizes

·    Long Flat or  Filbert Synthetic Brushes – various sizes

Colours: - if purchasing  new paint,  don’t  get something too expensive. Better to be affordable in order to be freely  using paint.  It is important to use  and mix lots of different colours and puddles.

·     Alizarin  Crimson

·     Cadmium  Yellow light

·     Ultramarine  Blue

·     Titanium  White

Misc:

·     Palette  knife for mixing colours

·     Mineral  odourless solvent

·     Some  Linseed oil

·     Rags  or Paper Towels

·     Easel  or Table Easel

·     Gloves  (optional)

·     Palette:  paper palette or wooden palette or plastic/acrylic palette (medium tone not white)