Watercolor Painting Essentials - Line and Wash Sketching

Name: Watercolor Painting Essentials - Line and Wash Sketching
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Learn the secrets to painting amazing line and wash paintings! Additional Bonus Workshop included.

Created byWatercolour Mentor

Last updated 6/2025

English

What you'll learn

Materials - what paints, paper, brushes and pens you will need.
A crucial series of 6 lessons on understanding 'values' and color - including practical exercises and demonstrations for you to follow along to.
Understanding light sources and how to paint realistic shadows.
How to sketch a subject in pencil and Ink easily by simplifying a landscape into basic shapes, and using a combination of loose and accurate drawing 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.
Using colour effectively in watercolour.
Over 6 hours of practical demonstrations and 'paint along' content

Course content

5 sections • 35 lectures • 9h 23m total length

Introduction3:39
Introduction: What to expect from this course.

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Materials: Paint4:33
Basic video on recommended paints - materials that I use and would recommend. You only need 3-4 colours to start with!
Materials: Paper6:12
Recommended paper - materials that I use and would recommend. Unique demonstration and comparison between different types of Watercolour paper.
Materials: Pens, Pencils & Brushes4:47
Recommended brushes and pens/pencils - materials that I use and would recommend. Beginners are often surprised at how little they need to get started - just a pencil + eraser, black ink pen and two brushes.
Materials: Other2:48
Other important materials and items that will help you in your watercolour journey. Surprisingly, these objects are found around the house!

Sketching: Techniques and Demonstrations6:55
Some essential tips to keep in mind when sketching. Observing shapes and creating a combination of loose yet accurate drawings.
Watercolor Techniques: Introduction and Demonstrations14:42
This is a paint along video to provide you an opportunity to learn and practice a range of essential as well as unique watercolor techniques.
Watercolor Techniques: Skies (Wet-in-Wet)10:06
Learn how to use wet-in-wet watercolor techniques to paint beautiful and convincing looking skies.
Watercolor Techniques: Skies (Flat and Graduated Wash)5:00
Learn how to paint flat and graduated washes to create clear blue skies and to portray a sunset.
Watercolor Techniques: Waves8:05
Learn how to paint waves using wet-in-wet and wet-on-dry watercolour techniques.
Watercolor Techniques: Waves and Shore7:56
How to indicate where waves and water meets land. In this video, you will learn techniques to accomplish this by viewing and following along to multiple demonstrations.
Watercolor Techniques: Land (Wet-on-Dry)6:41
Indicating land though wet-on-dry watercolor techniques.
Watercolor Techniques: Figures & Shadows (Wet on Dry)5:39

Values: Values vs. Colour Introduction4:07
Introduction to Values and Color - how are they different? Why is it important for you to know?
Values: Monochrome Demonstration5:20
Practical and helpful exercise in learning how to identify different values in a reference picture.
Values: Color Demonstration5:12
Practical and helpful exercise in learning how to identify different values in a reference picture. This exercise adds the further consideration of color when determining value.
Values: Palm Beach Demonstration4:57
Learn how to paint a simple beach with palm trees. Understand concepts of color and value whilst painting this scene.
Values: Simple Beach Scene5:45
Paint a simple beach scene and determine values and color in sky, water and land.
Values: Beach Night Landscape6:50
Learn how to paint a beach night landscape and learn about creating darker values and contrast within your paintings.

Paint Along 1: Simple Beach12:15
Paint along to a simple beach landscape. I will guide you through the entire painting, step-by-step.
Paint Along 2: Figure on Beach11:36
Paint Along 3: Figures on Beach16:06
Learn how to paint a more detailed beach scene with figures in the background. I will guide you through the entire painting, step-by-step.
Paint Along 4: Loose Sky Beach16:53
Learn how to paint a beach scene with a loose and cloudy sky. I will guide you through the entire painting, step-by-step.
Paint Along 5: Moody Lighthouse16:06
Learn how to paint a moody lighthouse scene with dark clouds in the background. I will guide you through the entire painting, step-by-step.
Paint Along 6: Lighthouse Sunny Day18:25
Learn how to paint a sunny day lighthouse scene. I will guide you through the entire painting, step-by-step.
Paint Along 7: Beach Scene with Buildings21:43
Learn how to paint a beach landscape with buildings in the background and a simple figure. I will guide you through the entire painting, step-by-step.
Paint Along 8: Two Figures on Beach19:05
Learn how to paint a beach landscape with mountains in the background and two figures walking in the foreground. I will guide you through the entire painting, step-by-step.
Paint Along 9: Tropical Beach and Figures27:36
Learn how to paint a tropical beach landscape with figures, trees, land and waves. I will guide you through the entire painting, step-by-step.
Paint Along 10: Ipanema Beach19:54
Learn how to paint a beach landscape (Ipanema Beach) with mountains in the background and simple figures in the foreground. I will guide you through the entire painting, step-by-step.
Paint Along 11: Figures on Beach + Umbrella20:47
Learn how to paint figures on a beach under an umbrella with a vibrant sky. I will guide you through the entire painting, step-by-step.
Paint Along 12: Beach with Surfers21:39
Learn how to paint a beach landscape with surfers and figures in the foreground and background. I will guide you through the entire painting, step-by-step.
Paint Along 13: Beach and Boats17:56
Learn how to paint a simple beach landscape with boats on the shore. I will guide you through the entire painting, step-by-step.
Paint Along 14: Beach Sunset14:26
Learn how to paint a dramatic beach sunset. I will guide you through the entire painting, step-by-step.

Requirements

No prerequisites - however ensure you check the 'materials' videos before starting.

Description

This Beach Landscape themed Watercolor Line and Wash Essentials course is designed for beginners with a desire to learn the essentials of Line and Wash Watercolor Painting. There is a beach theme to this class, however, the skills you will learn can be applied to all other watercolor landscapes.

By the end of this class, you will have the confidence and skills to understand how to paint any beach landscape scene in half an hour or less!

This course is designed for you to follow and paint alongside the demonstrations. It is encouraged for you to do so, as this will quickly strengthen your watercolor techniques by providing ample opportunities for practice. Each demonstration sketch is simple and tailored towards beginners. Draw these prior to painting.

*Additional Bonus Workshop included!*

I take a different approach from other instructors and make a conscious effort to demonstrate every technique I discuss in the context of a small painting/sketch. So, in addition of 19 full-length demonstrations, there are also 10+ smaller demonstrations highlighting techniques such as sketching, wet-in-wet in the context of painting clouds, water, land and other beach landscape components.

In this class, I will show you the FUN and EASY way to enter into the world of watercolors, and paint along to over 20 simple, yet beautiful Beach Landscape paintings.

This comprehensive class contains over 20 landscape painting demonstrations! These are based on various beach landscape compositions from around the world. I will walk you through how to complete each painting step by step as you follow along!

In this Watercolor Painting Line and Wash Essentials: Beach Landscapes course, I will cover basics such as:

Materials - what paints, paper, brushes and pens you will need.
The difference between different kinds of watercolor paper, and practical demonstrations showing comparisons of paper performance.
A crucial series of 6 lessons on understanding 'values' and color - including practical exercises and demonstrations for you to follow along to.
Understanding 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 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 the class and let's make learning watercolors fun and easy!

Who this course is for:

Beginner Students in Watercolour
Anyone with a desire to learn how to sketch and paint

Watercolor Painting Essentials - Line and Wash Sketching

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Course content

Introduction & Materials Required5 lectures • 22min

Watercolour Techniques & Sketching8 lectures • 1hr 5min

Watercolour Theory: Values vs. Color - 'Paint Along' demonstrations.6 lectures • 32min

'Paint Along' Full Demonstrations14 lectures • 4hr 14min

Bonus Workshop2 lectures • 3hr 10min

Requirements

Description

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