Outdoor Painting - Utah Lakeshore, Saratoga Springs 6/9/26

Itinerary:

6pm - Meet & Set-up

615-8 pm - Paint

Drive: Inlet Park parkinglot, Saratoga Springs

(park in the north parking lot - or if it's closed, there is a dirt parking lot to the west)

Locations: "find shade and then find something to paint" - Jewel Hodson

• Shady spot on pavement under trees on south side of the parking lot

• Lakeshore - take the dirt trail south, east of the paved trail south to Saratoga Springs hotsprings, and west of the metal fence. Hike about 5 minutes southeast to where the lake shore meets the Jordan River.

Activity: Outdoor Painting - Landscape in Acrylic

Easy Landscape Painting Lesson:

1) Sketch different landscape ideas on paper

2) Cover whole canvas in thinned Burnt Sienna tone

3) Sketch landscape with light blue or Burnt Sienna

4) Paint in midtones for sky, mountains, lake, and shore

5) Paint in dark tones for mountains, lake and shore

6) Paint in highlight tones for mountains, lake and shore

7) Foreground details

Great Landscape Painting Tutorials:

James Gurney

Gear: chair, easel or additional chair, 2 water bottles (one for dirty paint water - don't pour onto sensitive lake shore), acrylic paints, brushes, canvas board, paper towels (for cleaning brushes), paper plate or palate (for paint), plastic bag (for garbage), sunhat, sunscreen