A Guide To Atmospheric Watercolors: Wet-in-wet Landscapes

🚀 Welcome to A Guide To Atmospheric Watercolors: Wet-in-Wet Landscapes! 🎨

Dive into the world of dreamy and atmospheric watercolor landscapes with our expert mentor in this comprehensive online course. 🌄✨

Course Overview:

In this course, we'll explore the enchanting world of wet-in-wet watercolor techniques to create stunning, soft, and hazy landscape paintings. You'll learn the secrets behind this seemingly challenging technique and how to master it to bring your watercolor journey to new heights! 🌟

What You'll Learn:

• Simplify Shapes: Master the art of sketching large components like sky, buildings, trees, grass, and land for a cohesive painting.
• Wet-in-Wet Techniques: Discover how to use wet-in-wet to achieve ethereal effects in the clouds, skies, mountains, grass, and sand.
• Minimalist Trees & Rocks: Learn to paint trees and rocks effortlessly with minimal brushstrokes.
• Adding People: Find out how to naturally integrate figures into your landscape compositions.
• Effective Layering: Understand the art of layering for depth and detail in your paintings.
• Shadow & Light Dynamics: Learn to identify or choose a light source and add simple shadows to enhance the mood of your painting.

Course Structure:

1. Planning Your Painting: We'll start by teaching you how to plan your beach landscape painting in pencil, ensuring every detail is considered before you even touch your brush.
2. Wet-in-Wet Demonstrations: Watch two live demonstrations where I'll guide you through painting clouds, skies, mountains, grass, and sand using wet-in-wet techniques.
3. Painting Trees & Rocks: Learn how to paint basic trees and rocks with ease and naturalness.
4. Adding Figures: Discover the simple way of adding people to your landscape to bring it to life.
5. Detailing with Layers: Understand how to layer effectively for extra details and depth in your paintings.
6. Completing Your Work: Combine all the techniques learned to finish your painting, ensuring a natural atmospheric effect.

Your Assignment:

Draw & Paint Your Own Landscape! 🖌️🌍

• Choose a scene from this course or use one of your own photographs or observations.
• Follow the planning and painting steps outlined in the demonstrations to create your wet-in-wet landscape.
• You can use the provided scanned drawing/painting templates as a reference for tracing, but it's highly recommended to draw each scene freehand to enhance your skills.

Materials Needed:

• 0.5mm mechanical pencil
• Artist-grade watercolor paints (blue, yellow, and red)
• 100% cotton watercolor paper or sketchbook
• Variety of watercolor brushes (mop brush and round brushes for detailing)

Getting Started:

• Review the course demonstration videos to familiarize yourself with the techniques.
• Download the tracing templates if you wish to use them as a guide for your drawing.
• Research reference photos or find an outdoor location to sketch and paint from life.

Sharing Your Work:

• Share your progress and final paintings with the course community by uploading them to the Q&A or discussion section.
• If you have any questions or need additional tips, reach out! I'm here to support your artistic growth.

Embark on this creative journey and transform your watercolor skills with "A Guide To Atmospheric Watercolors: Wet-in-Wet Landscapes" course today! 🌈🎨 Let's create something truly breathtaking together.