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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
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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).