Canadian Landscape Painting Workshops with Dominik Modlinski
Join Dominik Modlinski, acclaimed Canadian landscape artist and plein air painter, for immersive landscape painting workshops on Vancouver Island, along Canada’s rugged West Coast, and in the Canadian Rockies.
These professional art workshops are designed for oil and acrylic painters seeking to deepen their skills in both studio painting and plein air landscape painting. Through hands-on demonstrations, individualized instruction, and field painting experiences, participants learn to capture mountains, glaciers, forests, and coastal landscapes while developing a strong personal style.
Dominik’s painting workshops combine adventure, artistic exploration, and technical mastery, offering a unique opportunity to paint on location while learning directly from an established Canadian wilderness landscape artist with more than three decades of professional painting experience.
Each session is designed to help artists of all levels develop their skills, deepen their creative expression, and gain confidence in their personal style.
Workshop Philosophy
Painting is not just about technique — it’s about connecting with the landscape and people, understanding light and atmosphere, and expressing emotion through colour contrasts and composition. My workshops emphasize:
Plein Air Painting – capturing natural light and movement on location
Studio Techniques – transforming field studies into large-scale works
Individual Guidance – personalized feedback to nurture your style
Adventure & Inspiration – painting in remote, breathtaking locations
These experiences encourage creativity, exploration, and the joy of painting outdoors, whether in the Canadian Rockies, Yukon, or along the West Coast.
Why Join a Landscape Painting Workshop with Dominik
Hands-on painting experience in a studio and plein air setting
Personalized instruction from a contemporary Canadian landscape artist
Learn to capture light, colour, and atmosphere in plein air
Take home sketches, studies, and possibly a completed painting
Workshops are designed to inspire, challenge, and help you grow as an artist — while experiencing some of Canada's most inspiring landscapes.
2027 Landscape Painting Workshops & Painting Adventures
Mexico Painting Workshop — Bold Strokes, Brilliant Colors
February 17–27, 2027
Casa Buena, Mexico
Journeying into Painting Techniques and Creative Visualization
Join Dominikfor an inspiring 10-day painting workshop in beautiful CASA BUENA, Mexico. Designed for oil and acrylic painters of all skill levels, this workshop combines technical instruction, creative visualization, and hands-on painting in a relaxed and supportive atmosphere.
Through daily demonstrations, individual instruction, and engaging exercises, you'll explore expressive brushwork, dynamic mark-making, colour harmony, and composition while developing your own artistic voice. Outdoor sketching and painting sessions will be combined with studio work, guiding you from observation to creating a more ambitious finished painting inspired by memory and imagination.
For further info and to register please visit CASA BUENA website
Newfoundland & Labrador Plein Air Painting Adventure
Saturday, June 12 - Thursday, June 17, 2027
Accommodations:
First three nights:
https://rockybrookacres.com/
Second three nights:
https://www.bamburyschalets.ca/
$3995.00 (tax included)
This Itinerary is a journey through history, including Gros Morne, a UNESCO World Heritage Site where we'll spend the majority of our time. Travelling from the town of Deer Lake, we'll spend our days visiting several little-known locales and travel to outport communities that are quintessential "Newfoundland," a testament to a bygone era, with its dramatic ocean vistas and craggy rock outcrops providing a stunning backdrop for the wooden structures that dot the landscape.
The Park locations we will explore represent the best the area has to offer, as recommended by local naturalists and artists, two of which are retired Gros Morne National Park staff. To preserve the uniqueness and value of your experience, we will not publicly list these sites. This approach is not intended as gatekeeping, but rather to ensure that your investment grants you access to exclusive, lesser-known locations.
Our base lodging will be in the area of the town of Rocky Harbour.
This is not a traditional plein air workshop. It is an field-based painting journey designed for artists who want to think, explore, and create independently while benefiting from the guidance of two experienced mentors.
Rather than following step-by-step demonstrations or painting identical subjects, throughout the workshop, you'll develop your own work in extraordinary locations throughout Newfoundland and Labrador. Every day brings new opportunities to paint dramatic coastal scenery, discover hidden landscapes, and build a meaningful body of plein air work inspired by your own vision.
Throughout each expedition, Dominik Modlinski will be painting his own work alongside the group, exactly as he does during his professional wilderness painting expeditions throughout Canada and around the world. This offers a unique opportunity to observe an established landscape painter working in real conditions—responding to changing weather, shifting light, colour relationships, and compositional challenges as they unfold.
Rather than leading constant demonstrations, Dominik's role is that of a mentor.
Throughout each painting day, he will move between participants, offering individual guidance tailored to your own artistic goals. Conversations may focus on design, colour harmony, simplification, brushwork, atmosphere, or developing a stronger personal voice. His objective is not to have you paint like him, but to help you become a stronger, more confident painter in your own style.
This workshop is intended for artists who already have some plein air experience and a solid understanding of composition and colour theory. Because of the mentoring format, participants are expected to work independently while remaining open to discussion, experimentation, and creative growth.
Drawing on more than three decades of painting wilderness landscapes across Canada and around the world, Dominik shares practical knowledge gained through thousands of hours working outdoors. His goal is not simply to help you complete better paintings during the workshop, but to give you ideas and approaches that will continue to influence your work long after you return home.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS
Guiding the group is acclaimed photographer Pete Ryan, whose deep knowledge of Newfoundland and Labrador comes from more than twenty years of exploration, including expeditions into remote regions such as the Torngat Mountains. Pete's photography has been featured by National Geographic and is archived in the National Geographic Image Collection. His intimate knowledge of the province allows us to venture beyond the usual destinations while providing invaluable advice on photography, visual storytelling, and gathering reference material for future studio paintings.
Each day we'll travel to one or two carefully selected locations, giving participants ample time to paint, explore, and photograph the landscape. Evenings conclude with informal group critiques and discussions, where everyone can share their work, exchange ideas, and apply the day's lessons to the next adventure.
By the end of the workshop, you'll return home with much more than a collection of plein air paintings. You'll leave with stronger observational skills, renewed creative confidence, exceptional photographic reference material, and a deeper understanding of how to approach landscape painting independently.
A Mentoring-Based Painting Experience
Who This Expedition Is For
This mentorship expedition is designed for artists who:
Have previous plein air painting experience.
Are comfortable working independently in the field.
Want to develop their own artistic voice rather than copy an instructor.
Value one-on-one mentoring and constructive critiques.
Enjoy adventure, exploration, and discovering extraordinary landscapes.
Want to build a meaningful body of work while experiencing Newfoundland and Labrador in a unique way.
To ensure the highest quality experience for everyone, participation is limited to 12 artists, allowing for meaningful individual mentoring throughout the expedition.
If you're looking for an unforgettable artistic adventure where you'll paint extraordinary places, observe a professional landscape painter at work, receive personal mentoring, and return home inspired to take your work to the next level, we invite you to join us on the East Coast.
Prefer to Learn from Home?
Explore Dominik's online landscape painting workshops covering colour theory, composition, brushwork, creative development and the process of transforming landscape references into finished paintings.
Private Wilderness Painting Workshops & Mentoring Adventures
Dominik Modlinski offers private small-group painting adventures and personalized instruction for artists seeking an immersive and focused painting experience in inspiring landscapes.
Designed for 2–5 participants, these multi-day adventures provide the opportunity to work closely with Dominik in a relaxed and collaborative setting. Drawing on more than three decades of professional painting and extensive experience working in the wilderness, Dominik provides individualized guidance tailored to each artist’s experience, interests, and creative goals.
Each painting adventure may include several days of plein air painting, demonstrations, discussions on composition, colour and painting techniques, individual critiques, and exploration of the surrounding landscape. The small-group format allows for meaningful one-on-one instruction while preserving the camaraderie and shared experience of painting alongside other artists.
Private Painting Adventures
Dominik offers year-round private painting trips, mentoring, and instruction by request. Locations can range from accessible mountain and coastal destinations to more remote wilderness environments, depending on the interests and experience of the group.
Private instruction fee: $1,000 CAD per day for 1–2 participants
Additional participants: $250 CAD per person, per day
Maximum group size: 5 participants
Travel, accommodation, meals and other trip-related expenses are additional.
Accommodation, meals, transportation, and other trip-related expenses vary depending on the destination. Experiences can range from wilderness camping and cooking outdoors to comfortable accommodations and dining in nearby communities.
Paint in Extraordinary Places
These private adventures are about more than instruction. They offer an opportunity to become deeply immersed in the landscape, slow down, observe, and develop a stronger connection between place, experience, and painting.
Dominik’s extensive experience painting throughout the Canadian Rockies, West Coast, Yukon, Alaska, and other remote landscapes provides participants with both artistic mentorship and valuable practical knowledge of working outdoors.
You will return home not only with new skills and a deeper understanding of your painting process, but also with original plein air paintings and lasting memories of remarkable places—sometimes locations rarely visited, and perhaps rarely painted.