Welcome to our Illustrative Rural Landscape Mini Course
A complete mini watercolour painting course. Using a more illustrative approach, this course is suitable for anyone wishing to try watercolour or to practise landscape painting. A watercolour basics video with guidance from the very beginning, and a step by step project video, to create a beautiful illustrative watercolour landscape, featuring fields, cottages and poppies.
Please use the following passwords to access your video content, please note they are case sensitive:
Basics of watercolour : Colour1 (Video length: 48 mins)
Illustrative Rural Landscape : Poppies (Video Length: 95mins)
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We hope you enjoy your painting course! If you have any queries please contact us via email. We’d love to see your creations, feel free to send your paintings in to us to feature on our social media!
Many thanks and happy painting!
Jessie, Discovery Art Class
Illustrative Rural landscape
In this video we approach the landscape slightly differently, using influence from the 2oth Century artist Eric Ravilious, who is known for his distinctive illustrative style, and his depiction of The South Downs in the South East in watercolour and printmaking.
Basics of watercolour -Techniques
This reference video has lots of useful information, explaining and demonstrating watercolour paint from the very beginning.
MATERIALS
- Pencil – HB ( for light sketching)
- Rubber and ruler – any ordinary pencil rubber and ruler
- Watercolour paper
- Watercolour paint
- Watercolour brushes
- Board
- Masking tape
Downloadable Materials list – – a list of good quality materials and suggested suppliers. Please note that the links will take you to another company’s website, which is outside of DAC data control.
Please click below to download:
Watercolour Mini Course Materials List
REFERENCE IMAGE
A copy of the final painting for reference, feel free to choose your own!
To download image:
Mac users: Hold ‘Control’ Key down, Click on Photo. Select ‘Save Image as’…, then ‘Desktop’ – Save.
PC users : Right click image, select ‘save image as’, choose location.
