Paint snowy mountains with watercolour: easy, full guidance

Name: Paint snowy mountains with watercolour: easy, full guidance
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Learn how to paint beautiful sunny mountains, explore the watercolour techniques and get the painting you'd be proud of

Created byAnna Zadorozhnaya

Last updated 8/2020

English

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What you'll learn

watercolour painting
different type of watercolour washes
dry-brush technique
understanding of tone values
rules of painting in limited palette

Course content

3 sections • 7 lectures • 1h 28m total length

Trailer0:55
Learn to create mountain scenery with watercolor, from preparation and color schemes to washes, dry brush, and masking fluid. Build tone, contrast, and coloristic composition for confident paintings.
All about materials: paper, paints, brushes and other stuff9:03
Discover essential watercolor materials for snowy mountains: 300 g Waterford paper, 28 × 38 cm format, brushes, masking fluid, and a six-color palette with blues and browns for moody washes.

Analysing the reference photo and planning the technology of layers6:45
Analyze subject, composition, colors, and tones to plan a snowy mountain watercolor. Emphasize light, contrast, and layer planning, using specific colors, sharp edges, and masking to build depth.
Drawing a preliminary sketch and applying a masking fluid6:30
Start with a quick pencil sketch of sharp mountain silhouettes, then use masking fluid to keep white areas, and paint with transparent watercolors to shape shadows.

Sky11:28
Learn to create a luminous sky with clean-water washes, wet-on-wet blending, and soft-edged clouds by layering ultramarine, orange, and related tones while managing paper moisture and drying techniques.
Shadows23:17
In this watercolor lesson, build the mountain shadows with blue washes, vary tones using royal blue, brown, and ultramarine, and master sharp and soft edges through careful blending.
Stones30:21
Use dry brush textures, diagonal rock alignment, and layered ultramarine, blue, and brown to paint snowy mountains with vivid shadows and contrast.

Requirements

minimal knowledge of watercolour basics

Description

In this lesson I explain how to plan your painting before actual start (check-list included!), how to create contrasts - the most vital for good painting category. We will talk about all aspects of painting: the tone, the colour, the mistakes that you should not make (and how to fix the mistakes you've made), consider the principles of creating interesting washes, discuss how to make the texture and what exactly forms the wow-effect of the painting.

Materials needed:

I try to use a limited range and a minimum of materials, so you don't need a mountains of paint and thousands of brushes to draw this painting.

◽️Paints: Sepia, Cadmium orange (PO20 pigment), Raw Umber, Ultramarine, Cobalt Blue, Indigo, Royal Blue

◽️Brushes: large soft squirrel/imitation, round or oval goat brush, small synthetic brush with a sharp tip

◽️Paper: for this subject paper is not essential, cellulose paper is also suitable, but I recommend 100% cotton, fin texture, density of 300 gr. (I have Saunders Waterford)

◽️Masking fluid and some old brush for applying it on paper

◽️Masking tape, can for water, paper towels, pencil and eraser

Who this course is for:

artists
mountains lovers
watercolour students

Paint snowy mountains with watercolour: easy, full guidance

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Course content

Introduction2 lectures • 10min

Preparing for watercolour painting2 lectures • 13min

Washes and dry-brush technique in watercolour3 lectures • 1hr 5min

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