Expanding Landscapes

Paint bold landscapes with Nikol Wikman across five projects. Build confidence through mark-making, color mixing, and layering. For all levels.

Paint bold, expressive landscapes with Nikol Wikman across five immersive projects, from glowing sunrises to moonlit seascapes. Using acrylics, a trowel, and charcoal, you'll practice intuitive mark-making, color mixing, and layering techniques that bring real depth and personality to your canvas.

Each lesson builds naturally on the last. You'll start with the wide, open feeling of Blue Horizon, move into the warm light of Daybreak, explore dramatic contrast in Moonlit Meander, find stillness in Passing Time, and bring everything together in Morning Walk. There's also a bonus lesson on breathing new life into a canvas you've already worked on.

Whether you're new to painting or looking to loosen up your existing practice, this class is designed to meet you where you are. You'll finish with five complete paintings and a way of working that feels expressive, layered, and genuinely yours.

  • Five 30 x 40” canvases (or the size of your choosing!)
  • White Gesso
  • Heavy bodied acrylic paint in Titanium White
  • Acrylic paint in Metallic Gold
  • Fluid acrylics in the following colours:
    • Cadmium Red Medium Hue
    • Paynes Gray
    • Phthalo Turquoise
    • Cerulean Blue
    • Burnt Sienna
    • Raw Umber
    • Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold
    • Quinacridone Magenta
  • Charcoal, graphite or a black soft pastel (chalk style)
  • Medium sized “House painting” brush(es)
  • Filbert brushes 1/2”, 3/4”
  • Extra large filbert brush 2”
  • Extra large round brush Mine is size 50
  • Metallic Gold Paint Pen
  • Sponge Roller
  • Large palette knife or a trowel
  • Catalyst wedge(a palette knife or other substitute will work in place of this!)
  • Spray bottle with water
  • Paper towel or shop towels
top Studioworks Picks
most watched classes
Enjoy our most popular classes along with over 200 creative classes, exclusive to Studioworks.
Latest Classes