Watercolor Essentials: Painting Beaches And Oceans

Paint 6 beach landscapes. Apply essential watercolor techniques easily. BONUS: 1-hour Special Beach Workshop video

What you'll learn
Materials - what paints, paper, and brushes you will need
A comprehensive watercolour painting process that will allow you to paint any beach landscape
Identifying light sources and how to paint realistic shadows
How to sketch a subject easily by simplifying a landscape into basic shapes, and using a combination of loose and accurate drawing/painting styles
Hands-on lessons on essential watercolor techniques such as wet-in-wet and wet-on-dry, dry brush and paint 'flicking'
How to paint clouds, water and land
How to paint simple yet convincing watercolour figures and people
Requirements
No prerequisites - view materials required lecture for more information.
Description
Hi, I'm Darren from Watercolour Mentor. Welcome to "Watercolor Essentials: Painting Beaches and Oceans". In this class, I'll show you the FUN and EASY way to enter the world of watercolors!BONUS: 1-hour Special Beach Workshop included at the end of this course. You will learn how to paint a rocky beach landscape with shadows. You'll learn how to paint 6 simple, yet beautiful Beach Landscape paintings, that you'll be proud to show your friends and family. By the end of this course, you will have the confidence and skills to understand how to paint any beach landscape scene in half an hour or less.Understanding how to create a loose landscape requires knowledge of composition as well as essential watercolour techniques. You will learn how to plan your painting by making decisions on your composition. You'll also learn how to layer effectively in watercolor by using wet-in-wet and wet-on-dry techniques.This comprehensive class contains 6 full landscape painting demonstrations of varying complexity. I will walk you through how to complete each painting step by step as you follow along.In this Watercolor Essentials: Painting Beaches and Oceans course, I will cover:Materials - what paints, paper, brushes and pens you will need.A comprehensive watercolour painting process that will allow you to paint any beach landscape6 full demonstrations that will guide you along so you can create similar resultsI'll touch on light sources and how to paint realistic shadows.How to sketch a subject easily by simplifying a landscape into basic shapes, and using a combination of loose and accurate drawing/painting styles.Hands-on lessons on essential watercolor techniques such as wet-in-wet and wet-on-dry, dry brush and paint 'flicking'.How to paint clouds, water and land.Join me in this course - let's make painting fun and easy!*The reference photos attached in the class projects are royalty-free images covered by the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction and Materials

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Materials Required

Section 2: 'Paint-along' Demonstrations

Lecture 3 1 - Sunny Beach

Lecture 4 2 - Umbrellas on the Beach

Lecture 5 3 - Beach Headland and Figure

Lecture 6 4 - Rocky Beach and Sky

Lecture 7 5 - Simples Figures on Beach

Lecture 8 6 - Jetty, Figures on Beach

Lecture 9 Class Project

Section 3: Bonus Workshop

Lecture 10 Beach Landscape Full Workshop

Students looking for a fast and easy way to paint watercolor beach landscapes,Students learning watercolor painting,Students learning how to paint loosely in watercolors,Beginner students in watercolors,Students looking for a way to loosen up their painting techniques