Watercolour Sketching Essentials: Fun & Easy Landscapes

Name: Watercolour Sketching Essentials: Fun & Easy Landscapes
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Learn how to drawn and paint twelve different landscape scenes!

Created byWatercolour Mentor

Last updated 2/2021

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What you'll learn

How to quickly improve your drawing and watercolour painting skills.
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.

Course content

2 sections • 15 lectures • 3h 47m total length

Introduction1:04
Develop confidence in watercolor techniques by sketching landscapes regularly, learning to convert reference photos into pencil sketches and watercolor paintings, and practicing to build painting habits in 12 landscape scenes.
Materials Required6:45
Explore essential watercolor materials for landscapes: compare sketchbook papers (cellulose 150–200 gsm, cotton blends, 100% cotton), paints and primaries, brushes (flat, round, mop), and affordable options to practice techniques.

1 - Simple Landscape8:26
Create a landscape by sketching a border and horizon, then build sky and land with loose washes in cerulean blue, orange, yellow, greens, burnt sienna, plus mountains and trees.
2 - Simple Boat Scene7:22
Create a simple boat scene by establishing the horizon line, adding distant boats and silhouettes, and painting a sky wash with magenta, orange, and blue, plus reflections in the water.
3 - Night Beach Sketch7:44
Learn a quick night beach watercolor sketch: establish a rough horizon, layer cerulean sky and darker water with Prussian blue, add headland, trees, and subtle birds for a simple landscape.
4 - Beach Sketch9:26
Practice a daytime beach landscape with soft edges where water meets sand, starting by wetting the top of the paper to render clouds, sky, horizon line, headland, and beach figures.
5 - Venice Sketch14:30
Sketch Venice's St. Mark's quickly by reducing buildings to simple shapes, aligning a horizon line, and painting yellow ochre facades with cerulean sky and darker water with boats.
6 - Jetty Sketch9:18
Create a quick watercolor sketch of a jetty scene, building basic shapes, a middle horizon, silhouetted houses, water reflections, and layered sky washes from warm yellows and oranges to cobalt.
7 - Japanese Temple Sketch25:05
This lecture guides a loose, layered watercolour approach to a Japanese temple landscape, simplifying buildings, painting distant mountains, and blending greens, blues, and warm earth tones.
8 - Street Scene Sketch16:46
Develop a quick watercolor street scene by establishing the horizon and perspective, simplifying buildings, and layering washes for cars, windows, and pedestrians.
9 - New York Street Scene Sketch42:57
Begin with the horizon line to block large building silhouettes, then add signs, cars, and figures using a cerulean blue and yellow ochre wash, refining light and shadow.
10 - Statue of Liberty Sketch22:33
Sketch a New York landscape featuring the Statue of Liberty, focusing on basic shapes, sky wash, sunset tones, building silhouettes, and water with light reflections.
11 - London Landscape Sketch28:26
Paint a London landscape in watercolor, focusing on the bridge silhouette, city buildings, and water with wet-on-wet washes using yellow ochre, cobalt blue, burnt sienna, and sepia.
12 - Street Scene Sketch 223:58
Learn to sketch a street scene in watercolor, blocking horizon and simple building shapes, then layer washes to depict light, shadows, cars, figures, and signage.
Class Project2:44
Upload your original paintings and reference photos, then practice transferring a photo into a watercolor sketch. Experiment freely with reference images and share your piece in the project section.

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 enroll in the class and let's have some fun sketching!

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:

Students in watercolor
Student learning how to draw and sketch in watercolour
Beginners in watercolour

Watercolour Sketching Essentials: Fun & Easy Landscapes

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Course content

Introduction and Materials2 lectures • 8min

Draw & Paint Along Lessons13 lectures • 3hr 39min

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