Article · Sara Woster (Substack)
Two of my favorite painting exercises to start 2026 off right
By Sara Woster
- Type
- Article
- Level
- All levels
- Length
- 2 lessons
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2026
About this lesson
An artist's newsletter exercise built around Gabriele Münter's Expressionism: paint dark outlines to define a figure or object, deliberately simplify the shapes instead of chasing photorealism, then fill them with bold, non-naturalistic colour straight from the tube (an "electric blue" sky instead of a natural one).
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