🌳 Summer Trees Landscape

Watercolor — Live Online Workshop with Sophia Rodionov

🗓 June 27, 2026 (Saturday)
🕖 19:00 Jerusalem Time
⏳ Duration: ~4 hours (includes a 20-minute break)
💻 Live on Zoom
📹 Recording available — lifetime access for everyone who enrolls

🌿 Paint Summer Greenery That Feels Alive — Where Every Green Is a Decision, Not a Guess ✨

A summer landscape can feel impossible to paint. So much green. So many leaves. So many branches all tangled together... And it's so easy to end up with a flat green blob — or a chaotic mess where the eye has nowhere to rest.

But a strong summer scene isn't about painting every leaf. It's about deciding: which tree leads, which fades back, where to simplify, where to let the watercolor breathe, and how to turn a wall of green into real space with depth and air.

In this workshop, I'll show you how I read a tree by its personality and simplify it without losing its character — and how I build a believable, atmospheric landscape out of all that summer foliage.

This is not only "paint with me." This is think with me 🤎 🖋

We'll go behind the scenes of the decision-making — so you can later look at any group of trees, any green summer view, and know exactly how to turn it into a strong, dynamic painting of your

 ENROLLMENT PERIOD 

💡 What Makes This Workshop Special

Most landscape lessons hand you a reference and walk you through copying it.

Here we go deeper:

     ✅ how to simplify trees by reading their personality — not by counting leaves

     ✅ composition for landscapes — focal point, dynamic vs. stable compositions, and rhythm

     ✅ how to create rhythm in an almost abstract scene of pure nature

     ✅ how to decide what to paint and what to ignore in all that greenery

     ✅ how to build depth, air, and atmosphere — a three-dimensional space, not a flat green wall

    ✅ how to enrich your greens with unexpected colors so the landscape stays alive

✨ You'll leave with a clear, repeatable system for summer landscapes — one you can reuse on
every grove of trees you fall in love with.

🎨 What We Will Do — The Program

1⃣ Simplifying Trees by Personality (~30 min)

We start with the heart of it: how to look at a tree and simplify its summer foliage based on its personality — its shape, its weight, its rhythm — instead of getting lost trying to paint every leaf.

2⃣ Composition Basics for Landscapes (~30 min)

Where to place your focal point. Dynamic compositions vs. static, stable ones — and when to use each. Then rhythm: how to create it in an almost abstract nature scene so the whole landscape feels connected and alive.

3⃣ Warm-Up — Tree Studies (~30–40 min)

Several quick studies of different trees, exploring how to use different brushes for the tree crown and the foliage. This is where your hand loosens up and the marks start to feel natural.

☕ Break — 20 min

4⃣ Painting 1 — Greens & Air Perspective (9×12") (~50–60 min)

Working from a reference:
palette choice, mixing greens that don't go muddy, and using air perspective to push trees back into the distance and pull others forward.

5⃣ Painting 2 — Final Large Landscape (A3 or 12×16") (~70–80 min)

Our big piece, step by step with every stage explained. Working from a reference, we'll decide what to paint and what to ignore, how not to get lost in all the greenery, and how to build a real three-dimensional space with depth and atmosphere. I'll also show you how to enrich your palette for a green-based summer landscape — bringing in colors you might not expect, so the greens come to life.

❓ Questions time

⏳ About 4 hours total.

🌳 Who This Workshop Is For

This workshop is perfect if you:

• 🌿 love painting trees and landscapes but feel your greens go flat or muddy
• 🌿 get overwhelmed by all the foliage and don't know what to simplify
• 🌿 want more freedom and energy — without losing structure and depth
• 🌿 want to learn how to choose what to paint and what to leave out
• 🌿took my earlier tree classes and want to go deeper with practice 🌿 are a beginner who wants a
  clear system, or an intermediate painter who wants more confidence

🧡 Live Workshop Experience (and Why It Matters)

✨ Live on Zoom means you can:

• ask questions in real time
• see the full decision process as it happens
• feel the energy of painting together in a studio atmosphere

💬 There will be Q&A time, and you're welcome to share progress and ask for feedback if you'd
like.

📹 Can't be online? No problem:

• The Zoom recording will be available within 24 hours after the workshop ends.
• A better-quality video will be added to your class materials within a week.
• If you enroll, you keep lifetime access to the recording — watch and paint at your own pace, anytime.
• If you're a Flow Room subscriber, you'll have access to the recording for as long as your subscription is active.

🤎 A Note for My Tree-Class Students

This workshop is a wonderful next step for everyone who took my previous tree classes — now we go deeper into trees with summer foliage, gaining the hands-on practice you need with my guidance beside you.

It's completely new material with new paintings, of course. And if you're new to my tree work,
you're just as welcome — everything you need is in the workshop itself.

✨ The Promise

After this workshop, you won't just have a few finished landscapes.

You'll have a repeatable system for summer trees:

🌳 simplifying trees by personality

👁 deciding what to paint and what to ignore

🌀 rhythm to connect an almost abstract scene 🍃 greens that stay alive — never flat or muddy 🌫 depth, air, and atmosphere on a flat sheet of paper

✨focal point, composition, and confident decision-making

So the next time a row of trees, a green hillside, or a quiet summer path catches your eye — you'll
know exactly what to do with it.

🖼 What You Will Create During the Workshop

We move step by step: simplify → compose → practice → final piece. You won't just watch —
you'll build a real understanding of trees, greens, and space you can use on your own work.

🌿 Warm-Up — Tree Studies Several quick studies of different trees, exploring brushes for crown
and foliage. (Place studies image here)
🌳 Painting 1 — Greens & Air Perspective Working from a reference: palette choice, mixing
greens, and depth through air perspective. (Place Painting 1 image here)
🌲 Final Painting — Summer Trees Landscape The larger piece that brings it all together:
simplifying, rhythm, depth, atmosphere, and decision-making. (Place final large painting image
here)

🌿 By the end of the workshop you will have:

• several tree studies and two finished landscapes built on real decisions
• a clear understanding of simplifying trees, mixing lively greens, and creating depth
• a practical, repeatable system you can use on any summer landscape you love 

💎 THE FLOW ROOM INFORMATION

Before you decide — there are two paths here.

If this class speaks to you and you'd like to have it as your own — you can purchase it directly below, with lifetime access.

But if you find yourself returning to learn again and again, The Flow Room might be a more natural home for you. It's a subscription studio where this class is already included — alongside streams, workshops, and immersive learning — across three tiers: Emerald, Lapis Lazuli, and Amethyst.

Both paths lead to the same painting table. The question is how you like to travel.