Simple Watercolor Streetscapes and Urban Landscapes

Name: Simple Watercolor Streetscapes and Urban Landscapes
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Learn how to paint and sketch street scenes and buildings in watercolor through 7 demonstrations.

Created byWatercolour Mentor

Last updated 5/2021

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What you'll learn

How to draw from a reference photo quickly and loosely, how much detail you need to add, and how to imply more details through painting.
Learn various watercolour painting techniques such as wet-in-wet, wet-in-dry, drybrush.
How to allow paint to mix on the paper for dramatic and interesting washes.
How to paint simple street scenes and define a light source to create dramatic shadow effects.

Course content

3 sections • 14 lectures • 5h 47m total length

Introduction1:04
Develop confidence and speed in watercolor painting by learning pen and wash techniques, turning any street-scene reference photo into a beautiful painting through clear, step-by-step guidance.
Materials Required5:34
Discover essential materials for pen and wash watercolor, including Arches 300 Yasim 100 percent cotton paper and Saunders Waterford options, permanent pens, mechanical pencils, and a three-primary paint palette.

Flinders Street Station, Melbourne - 1A - Drawing19:35
Learn to paint Flinders Street Station in Melbourne by simplifying an urban scene into silhouettes and big shapes, starting with a horizon line and adding details later with watercolors.
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne - 1B - Painting25:57
Learn to create a soft watercolor wash for Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, using magenta, cerulean blue, yellow ochre, and subtle shadows to build light and form.
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne - 1C - Painting43:22
Master a watercolor wash to capture Flinders Street Station and urban streetscapes, building up windows, figures, cars, and light with layered color and selective detail.
Perth - 1A - Drawing22:34
Draw a Perth cityscape from Kings Park with careful silhouette planning, outlining buildings, foreground figures, and trees to create depth, light from the left, and a recognizable skyline.
Perth - 1B - Drawing1:00:59
Learn to build a cityscape with watercolor washes, combining light sky tones, soft clouds, and sharp building silhouettes using flat and calligraphy brushes, and master wet-on-wet and glazing techniques.
Streets Beach, Brisbane - 1A - Drawing16:57
Capture Brisbane’s street beach scene in watercolor, balancing sunlit buildings, a man-made beach, and bustle of figures to create depth with silhouettes, shadows, and simplified structures.
Streets Beach, Brisbane - 1B - Painting47:24
Wet the paper and lay loose washes in cerulean blue, yellow ochre, and turquoise to create a sunlit Brisbane street scene with palm trees, figures, and distant buildings.

Melbourne City - Drawing and Painting28:39
Create a high-contrast Melbourne city watercolor streetscapes scene by simplifying buildings to silhouettes, highlighting cars and figures, with layered sky washes and deep shadows.
Melbourne, Chapel Street - Line and Wash25:58
Block in the horizon and edges of Melbourne's Chapel Street, then paint cars and buildings with line-and-wash to create perspective. Use left-hand side light and simple figures to enhance depth.
Surfers Paradise, Queensland - Line and Wash16:18
Create a pen and wash sketch of Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast, capturing loose line work, horizon, sand, waves, and simplified building silhouettes in watercolor.
Sydney Street Scene - Line and Wash31:47
Explore a Sydney street scene in line and wash, using loose pen work, simple building forms, and color washes of cobalt blue, sap green, and yellow ochre.
Class Project1:00
Sketch the outlined landscapes using demonstration videos and reference photos, apply the class tips to create paintings, adjust figures or add objects, then upload your original city or street scenes.

Requirements

No Prerequisites

Description

Hi, I'm Darren from Watercolour Mentor. If you're looking for a class that will give you confidence and help you improve your drawing and watercolour painting skills, this is it.

Sketching on a regular basis is an important but often overlooked way to learn how to draw and paint. Sketching allows you to experiment and practice in a fun and low pressure environment - all you need are some paints and a sketchbook or some spare paper! In this class you'll learn how to drawn and paint twelve different landscape scenes. By the end of the course, you will understand how to convert any reference photo into a pencil sketch and watercolour painting.

This course is designed to increase your confidence in executing different watercolour techniques and give you ample practice to build strong painting habits that will set you on the right track in watercolour painting.

I'm excited to get started, so join me in this class and let's have some fun sketching!

*Reference painting scans are included under the 'Materials Required' lecture.

In this class we will cover:

12 full drawing and painting demonstrations.
How to draw from a reference photo quickly and loosely, how much detail you need to add, and how to imply more details through painting.
Various watercolour painting techniques such as wet-in-wet, wet-in-dry, drybrush.
How to allow paint to mix on the paper for dramatic and interesting washes.
How to paint simple street scenes and define a light source to create dramatic shadow effects.

Who this course is for:

Beginner students learning watercolor
Beginner students learning line and wash
Students looking to learn watercolor techniques

Simple Watercolor Streetscapes and Urban Landscapes

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Course content

Introduction and Materials2 lectures • 7min

Watercolor Demonstrations7 lectures • 3hr 57min

Line and Wash Demonstrations5 lectures • 1hr 44min

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