RGS offers both in-studio and plein air (outdoor) landscape classes and workshops.
In-studio landscape painting and drawing offers a controlled atmosphere, working from memory, sketches, photographic images, or window views. Light sources, colors, and angles remain constant, allowing time to focus on developing paintings over time.
Plein air allows one to experience the benefits, challenges, and joys of painting directly from nature. The fundamental concepts and techniques of plein air painting include composition, color, and atmosphere. Concentrating on the colors, the values, and the masses and their relationships to one another can help us to capture the essence of the scene.
