Upcoming Holiday Closure: December 21, 2025 - January 1, 2026
Painting an Impressionistic Landscape in Oil with a Palette Knife
Palette knife is one of the most rewarding techniques that produces loose, eye-catching impressionistic paintings with a lot of texture.
Type:In-Studio
Level:Intermediate
Medium:Painting
Class Dates
Saturday Feb 21, 2026 11:30 AM - 3:30 AM
Overview
This one-day workshop will help you to become more comfortable using palette knife. It will help you to become more expressive and carefree with your painting which will bring freshness to your work as you add another dimension to your oil painting repertoire. Participants will receive step by step guidance with a lot of individual attention.
Pre-requisites: some painting experience required.
Materials List - see below
Please note, this is an in-studio program.
Please contact programs@niagarapumphouse.ca for any questions.
Materials List
-2 palette knives (3 cm and 4.5 cm long diamond shape blades)
-16 x 16" or 18 x 18" stretched canvas, canvas panel, canvas board, or gessoed board
-palette
-sketchbook
-pencil
-eraser
-paper towels
-baby wipes
-trash bag
-apron
-Colours
-titanium white
-cool and warm cadmium yellow
-yellow ochre
-cadmium orange
-red (permanent rose, cadmium red, or alizarin crimson)
-burnt sienna
-ultramarine blue
-cerulean blue
-turquoise green (or viridian green)
-purple or violet
-*note: bring big tubes as we will use a lot of paint, especially white and ultramarine blue.
Instructor - Maria Iva
Maria Iva is a landscape painter and instructor known for her impressionistic style and vibrant colorist approach, working primarily with oil and dry pastel mediums.