5 Watercolor Landscapes: Painting Sky And Foreground

Paint 5 stunning landscapes. Learn how to use watercolor techniques for creating realistic and detailed landscapes

What you'll learn

Painting Watercolor Sky

Painting Realistic Landscapes

Creating textures for the Foreground landscape with Watercolor

Painting Water Reflections and Lake in Landscape

Painting landscape with Limited Palette and Color Mixing

Requirements

Basic Watercolor Skills

100% cotton watercolor paper 300 gsm/140 lbs cold-pressed or grain fin

Watercolors: Cobalt Blue, Alizarin Crimson, Yellow, Payne's Grey, SAP Green or any other Green, Yellow Ochre

Brushes: Mop Brush or Quill Brush #8, Round Brush #6, small brush for details number 1

Some additional materials for creating textures: table salt, zink white watercolor

Pencil, kneadable eraser, palette, paper towels

Description

Welcome to the magical world of watercolor landscapes!If you ever wondered how to capture the beauty of a sunrise or the drama of a stormy landscape, this class is for you!I will show you how to make your landscape come alive with simple watercolor techniques and tips.In this class, we will paint 5 different landscapes. At the beginning of the class, I will show you how to paint different types of sky from gradient sunrise to dark grey stormy sky. As a class project, you can paint any of them or even your landscape based on the knowledge you will get.Yellow Field before the stormLake at SunriseLake in a Rainy DaySouthern FieldPurple Sky After the RainArt Materials:We will use a limited color palette and I will show you colors and color mixes at the beginning of each landscape. I will use up to 5 colors per landscape and all landscapes will have about 3 primary colors in common (Yellow, Cobalt Blue, and Red). So you will be able to use a very small palette of essential colors for painting any of these landscapes.The most important art supply is watercolor paper. You will need 100% cotton cold-pressed or grain fin paper 300 gsm/ 140 Lbs. I used paper by Arches for all the landscapes.After we practice in painting the sky and creating detailed foregrounds we will move to painting landscapes. These are the main steps we will follow to paint each of 5 landscapes:Preparing color mixes.Drawing a simple sketch.Painting with watercolor.All of the landscapes are suitable for the beginners. To make sure you will paint your dream landscape, I shared some simple techniques for painting the foreground and the sky.At the end of the class, you will learn how to paint different types of landscapes and the main principles you need to follow to paint any landscape with watercolor.Please don’t forget to leave a review about this class - it will help other students to understand if this class is a good fit for them. I am very happy to hear feedback from my students too!Hope to see you in the class!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Art Materials

Section 2: Painting Sky Exercises

Lecture 3 Exercise 1 - Painting Sky

Lecture 4 Exercise 2 - Painting Sunset Sky

Section 3: Landscape 1

Lecture 5 Color Mixes

Lecture 6 Sketch

Lecture 7 Painting Sky

Lecture 8 Painting the Field

Lecture 9 Painting the Background

Lecture 10 Final Details

Section 4: Landscape 2

Lecture 11 Color Mixes

Lecture 12 Sketch

Lecture 13 First Layer

Lecture 14 Foreground

Lecture 15 The Boat

Section 5: Landscape 3

Lecture 16 Color Mixes

Lecture 17 Sketch

Lecture 18 First Layer

Lecture 19 Painting the Right Side

Lecture 20 Painting the Left Side

Lecture 21 Final Details

Section 6: Landscape 4

Lecture 22 Sketch and Color Mixes

Lecture 23 Painting the Sky

Lecture 24 Painting the Field

Lecture 25 Final Details

Section 7: Landscape 5

Lecture 26 Color Mixes

Lecture 27 Sketch

Lecture 28 Painting the Sky

Lecture 29 Painting the Field

Lecture 30 Final Details

Section 8: Final Word

Lecture 31 Thank you for painting with me!

Beginners who'd like to start painting landscapes and watercolor sky,Intermediate level artists who would like to learn more about creating textures