Traveler'S Urban Sketchbook 4: Adding Watercolors

Create and paint a thematic series of sketches while traveling with Santa Fe, New Mexico as the featured location.

What you'll learn

Create and paint a thematic series of sketches that represents a place you have traveled to using photographs or sketching live.

Create finished sketches with ink pens that come to life when watercolor is applied.

This course is a two for one since it includes sketching and beginning watercolor lectures.

Combine skills learned from previous courses: Proportions, Contours, Landscapes and Perspective

Requirements

Anyone can take this course but it would be helpful if you either have sketching experience or have taken Traveler's Sketchbook Pt 1, 2 and 3.

Some watercolor experience would be helpful.

Description

In this course, I will teach you how to create a series of thematic, painted sketches that tell a story or feature a particular location. The instruction will focus on adding watercolors to your ink drawings of buildings, trees, sculptures and other landscape features.  I will travel  to Santa Fe, New Mexico where I will show you how to create a series of sketches that bring to life a particular place. You can use your previous sketches, create a series from past photographs or make a new series from a place around you. I will introduce the idea of creating a thematic border around your sketches and you then you will watch me create my sketches.  Half of the class, eight lectures, are dedicated to watercolors. I introduce watercolor techniques like flat and graded washes, glazing and creating value charts and creating study paintings.  I will cover the materials and techniques that I prefer, and then you will watch me paint, with step by step narrated instruction instruction of how to paint your sketches.  If you are a beginning painter, you can stop at any stage, and if you are up for more of a challenge, watch as I turn my sketches into finished paintings!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Create an Interesting Border Around a Series of Sketches

Lecture 2 Create an Interesting Border Around a Series of Sketches

Section 3: Create a Compilation Sketch as the First Sketch in Your Series

Lecture 3 Create a Compilation Sketch as the First Sketch in Your Series

Section 4: Sketching an Iconic Place in Santa Fe-Canyon Road with Landscape

Lecture 4 Sketching an Iconic Place in Santa Fe-Canyon Road with Landscape

Section 5: Sketching a Shrine to Guadalupe with Some History of Chimayo

Lecture 5 Sketching a Shrine to Guadalupe with Some History of Chimayo

Section 6: Sketching El Santuario de Chimayo

Lecture 6 Sketching El Santuario de Chimayo

Section 7: WATERCOLORS! Value Charts, Flat Washes and Glazing on Sketch Paper

Lecture 7 WATERCOLORS! Value Charts, Flat Washes and Glazing on Sketch Paper

Section 8: WATERCOLORS! Graded Wash Technique on Sketchbook Paper

Lecture 8 WATERCOLORS! Graded Wash Technique on Sketchbook Paper

Section 9: WATERCOLORS! Creating a Study Painting to Assess Colors

Lecture 9 WATERCOLORS! Creating a Study Painting to Assess Colors

Section 10: WATERCOLORS! Setting Up Your First Painting of a Sketch

Lecture 10 WATERCOLORS! Setting Up Your First Painting of a Sketch

Section 11: WATERCOLORS! Painting Shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe

Lecture 11 WATERCOLORS! Painting Shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe

Section 12: WATERCOLORS! Painting the Santa Fe Compilation Sketch

Lecture 12 WATERCOLORS! Painting the Santa Fe Compilation Sketch

Section 13: WATERCOLORS! Painting the Chimayo Sketch

Lecture 13 WATERCOLORS! Painting the Chimayo Sketch

Section 14: WATERCOLORS! Painting the Canyon Road Sketch in Santa Fe

Lecture 14 WATERCOLORS! Painting the Canyon Road Sketch in Santa Fe

Intermediate or beginning sketchers who have worked their way through the Traveler's Sketchbook series of courses.,Experienced sketchers who want more information about how to add watercolor to their sketches.