Cinque Terre in Watercolor: Complexity to Loose Painting
What you'll learn
- Using essential watercolor techniques such as wet-in-wet and wet-on-dry
- Turn a simple and effective way to reduce a complex reference picture to a loose, impressionistic painting.
- Learn how to paint buildings, water and boats
- Learn my 3 step layering process to produce a realistic looking watercolor painting
Requirements
- No prerequisites
Description
Hello and Welcome! In this course, I'm going to show you how to paint Cinque Terre, Italy in watercolor. One of the things I struggled with as a beginner was learning how to loosen up my brushstrokes while preserving a sense of realism. I will show you a quick and simple process of simplifying details in a reference picture to turn this into a loose watercolor painting.
Bonus Workshop Included: Draw and Paint Venice, Italy, and Annecy, France
This class will help you loosen up as well as go through some essential wet-on-wet watercolor techniques when painting boats, water, reflections, and buildings. This class is for beginners to intermediate learners.
You will need some watercolor paper, watercolor paints consisting of blue, yellow, red, and green, a 3/4 inch, and number 6/12 flat brush, and a number 4 round brush. I'm looking forward to sharing my knowledge with you, so enroll in this class and you'll be producing some simple and beautiful paintings in no time.
In this course, we will cover:
How to paint houses and indicate details with minimal brushstrokes.
How to use tone to imply shadows, contrast, and draw attention to certain areas of your painting.
How to paint shadows and light.
How to compose or come up with a unique design for your painting, by deciding what to incorporate from your reference photo and what to leave out.
Using complementary colors to create vibrant contrasts in your paintings.
How to use essential watercolor techniques and processes such as; layering and glazing, wet-in-wet, and wet-in-dry.
Who this course is for:
- Beginners and intermediate students in watercolor
- Students aiming to learn basic watercolor techniques
Instructor
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 213 Reviews
- 1,265 Students
- 90 Courses
Hi, I'm Darren Yeo from Watercolour Mentor, and I'm here to Mentor, Encourage and Inspire you in your watercolour journey! I'm a watercolour artist based in Melbourne, Australia. I've taught thousands of students how to create beautiful paintings using a simple two-step process. On my Udemy page, you will find a variety of tutorials that will help you fast-track your progress in watercolour painting.
I am an experienced teacher on various other platforms. My courses contain a large amount of content and information compared to other similar watercolour courses on Udemy. I like to provide as much value as possible in my courses, and different subjects to paint, so students can pick and choose which lectures interest them the most.
Need more support during your course? feel free to send me a message or ask a question in the Q&A and I will get back to you. I want to make sure you get all the help and feedback you need.
I would love to share my knowledge with you and build a friendly community, free of judgement to help you discover this amazing skill and hobby.
My goal is to provide simple videos to make learning watercolours easy & less intimidating! I use a limited palette, and when painting landscapes, have a loose, vibrant and expressive style.
Something unique about me, and Watercolour Mentor is that I have a psychology and educational background. I am passionate in making a difference on a personal level by providing real feedback and mentoring. I would love to hear from you. I'm primarily a watercolour artist and have won awards for my sculptural works. Teaching watercolours is my passion and I look forward to sharing my premium classes with you on this platform.