TREESCAPE PAINTING WORKSHOPS CALGARY | Intermediate Landscape Painting

Treescape Painting Workshops | Grasby Art Studio Calgary

Trees are a wonderful subject. Join our treescape painting workshops in NW Calgary (Bowness) and create a feature wall painting — capturing local deciduous or evergreen trees with an impressionistic or realistic palette, fat over lean.

Birch triptych by Teresa Grasby — aspens and birches in autumn colour, painted across three tall canvases — Birch triptych, painted across three tall canvases — Teresa Grasby

What You'll Learn

Create a luminous underpainting
Lay out your own compelling composition
Build an analogous or complementary colour palette
Layer your paint fat over lean with brush and palette knife
Finish a painting with a clear focal area, balanced for value and colour intensity

In the studio

Trees are where mark-making shows most — four sessions on trunks, canopy and the light coming through.

Student beside a tall finished canvas of birch trunks and a stepped creek in autumn colour, Treescape workshop, Grasby Art Studio, NW Calgary — A tall birch canvas, finished

Student adding orange leaves to an autumn birch and creek painting with a fine brush, Treescape workshop, Grasby Art Studio, NW Calgary — Leaves go on last, and lightly

Teresa Grasby working on a large golden larch treescape painting at the easel, Treescape workshop, Grasby Art Studio, NW Calgary — Golden larches, worked large

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Winter 2027 Dates

Wednesdays · 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
January 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2027

Saturdays · 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
January 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2027

Cost

$95 — single workshop
$360 — full four-workshop series

Working with Teresa

These intermediate workshops are led by studio founder Teresa Grasby. Teresa takes on the subjects artists find most challenging and shares the efficient process she has developed for them, worked in a loose, expressive style. Most artists use the four sessions to build one large-format canvas — a finished feature wall painting to take home.

Details

Level: Intermediate — for artists who have completed our Beginners series, or who have equivalent experience
Duration: 3 hours per workshop
Class size: 8 artists maximum
Location: Grasby Art Studio, 6520 Bowness Road NW, Calgary

Perfect For

Artists who have completed our Beginners series, or who have equivalent experience, and who want to improve their landscape painting, learn new techniques, or simply enjoy a creative morning painting beautiful treescapes in a relaxed, inspiring atmosphere.

Supplies

We provide the specialty tools, soft-bodied acrylics and a student-grade canvas for each workshop. For the best results we recommend bringing an artist-quality canvas and a basic heavy-bodied paint kit — the three primaries plus black and white, a small palette knife, a disposable palette and a variety of brushes. If you already own these, bring what you have. Canvases and individual supplies are at the front desk, and our Beginners Acrylic Supply Kit or Oil Supply Kit covers the whole kit list for $88.

How to Register

Choose the full series for all four workshops, or a single date to try one.
Booking more than one single date? Add each one to your cart separately.