How To Paint Boat Landscapes: Watercolor Essentials

Paint 8 different boat scenes by learning essential watercolour techniques. BONUS: Short workshop with additional scene

What you’ll learn
Essential watercolour techniques such as wet-in-wet and wet-in-dry
Simplifying any photograph into a loose drawing/painting
Paint various boat landscapes quickly and easily
How to loosen up your brushstrokes whilst maintaining detail
How to paint quickly and maintain vibrancy in your paintings
How to plan your scene through sketching and composition
Requirements
No prerequisites
Description
Welcome to “How to Paint Boat Landscapes: Watercolor Essentials”! In this course, I’m going to show you how to paint 8 different boat landscapes in watercolour. One of the things I struggled with as a beginner was learning how to loosen up my brushstrokes while preserving a sense of realism.BONUS: Short workshop with an additional boat scene. This workshop is located at the end of the main course lectures.This class will help you loosen up as well as go through some essential wet-on-wet watercolour techniques when painting boats, water, reflections and surrounding objects. This class is aimed at beginners to intermediate learners.We’ll be painting a variety of simple boat and water landscapes that will build your confidence in understanding and applying various watercolour techniques and processes. We also go through composition and how to plan your painting, selecting colours and elements for the story you want to tell.You will need some watercolour paper, watercolour paints consisting of blue, yellow, red and green, a 3/4 inch and number 6 flat brush, and a number 4 round brush. What’s included in this course:Essential watercolour techniques such as wet-in-wet and wet-in-drySimplifying any photograph into a loose drawing/paintingPaint various boat landscapes quickly and easilyHow to loosen up your brushstrokes whilst maintaining detailHow to paint quickly and maintain vibrancy in your paintingsHow to plan your scene through sketching and compositionI’m looking forward to sharing my knowledge with you, so join me in this class and you’ll be producing some simple and beautiful paintings in no time!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction and Materials

Lecture 1 Introduction and Materials

Section 2: ‘Paint-along’ Demonstrations

Lecture 2 1 Lucerne Boats

Lecture 3 2 Cinque Terre

Lecture 4 3 Nearby Boats and Jetty

Lecture 5 4 – Simple Boat Silhouettes

Lecture 6 5 – Mountains and Boats

Lecture 7 6 – Boats on Rocky Shore

Lecture 8 7 – Boats in Harbour

Lecture 9 8 – Boats and Buildings

Lecture 10 Class Project

Section 3: Bonus Workshop

Lecture 11 Boats on the water – Short Workshop

Beginner students in watercolour,Students aiming to loosen up their painting,Students learning boat and water landscapes in watercolour