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Cinque Terre in Watercolor: Complexity to Loose Painting
12 students

Cinque Terre in Watercolor: Complexity to Loose Painting

Turn a simple and effective way to reduce a complex reference picture to a loose, impressionistic painting.
Created byWatercolour Mentor
Last updated 1/2025
English

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

Course content

3 sections • 8 lectures • 5h 28m total length

  • Introduction1:25

    Learn to reduce a complex photograph of buildings into a loose, impressionistic watercolor painting. Master wet-on-wet water, soft ripples, and tonal balance from lightest to darkest, including figures and birds.

  • Materials Required2:13

    Use 100 percent cotton watercolor paper, preferably Saunders' Warford, or a cellulose alternative. Gather four brushes: a 3/4 inch flat, flats 12 and 6, a small round, and artist-grade paints.

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

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