This drawing course will investigate landscapes beyond the naturalistic representation of a place, with a strong emphasis on using color drawing materials to explore space, mood, and expression. Students will delve into landscape as a way to communicate ideas and emotion, and emphasis will be placed on color relationships, mark making, composition, and more. We will primarily work from photographic references, starting more representational and developing more inventiveness throughout. All skill levels are welcome!

Lindsay’s Bio:

Lindsay Mueller is an artist fascinated by the layered relationships humans have with outdoor spaces. She typically creates paintings inspired by local fragments of landscape, often incorporating sculptural elements in her process. Mueller holds a BFA in Painting and a BA in Psychology from Boston University and an MFA in Visual Arts from American University. She has exhibited across the East Coast at venues including the University of Mary Washington, Adah Rose Gallery, the Peale Museum, and Chautauqua Institution. In 2023 she received the Bethesda Painting Young Artist Award, and she was a 2025 Sondheim Art Prize semifinalist. She is currently an artist-in-residence at MoCA Arlington.