Welcome to our Watercolour Landscapes Course
Watercolour can be both precise and random, from the precision of botanical painting to free flowing compositions relying on the nature of the water and pigment, and everything in between! This makes it an exciting medium to work with as there is an element of opposites and the unknown, the results can be very diverse, but always interesting and rewarding!
The course covers many ways to paint Landscapes in watercolour, each video is a separate project, covering all aspects of watercolour painting, with clear instruction of the techniques used, and how to build your painting. These are supported by a reference video of basic watercolour techniques and the materials and tools used.
Please use the following passwords to access your video content, please note they are case sensitive:
Mountains and Rivers : Mountain (Video Length: 75mins)
Illustrative Rural Landscape : Poppies (Video Length: 95mins)
Crofts and Cows : Rural (Video Length: 108 mins)
Sunsets: Glencoe (Video length: 88 mins)
Rural Village: Riverside (Video length: 115 mins)
Storm Clouds Gathering: Stormclouds (Video length: 62 mins)
Basics of watercolour : Colour1 (Video length: 48 mins)
Don’t forget to watch the video on full screen! Enter your password then click on the square icon(bottom right) to enter and exit full screen mode. You may need to turn the sound on – roll over the top right of the screen and the sound button will appear.
Basics of watercolour -Techniques
We hope you enjoy your painting course, you can access, replay and pause as many times as you like. 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
Project 1 – Mountains & Rivers
In this video we will be starting with simple landscape to practise the techniques and the processes, This will include preparation, sketching, colour mixing, how to paint sky, adding in mountains, and how to paint water effectively with reflections, how to treat back, mid and foreground.
Project 2 – Illustrative Rural landscape
In this video we approach the landscape slightly differently, using influence from the 20th 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.
Project 3 – Composition, Crofts and Cows
A lot packed into this one! Learn to compose your own composition, use references effectively, basic perspective, how to draw and paint buildings and animals, stone walls and foreground.
Project 4 – Sunsets
In this video we will look at cool and warm palettes, and the different effect this has on the mood of a painting. We will then paint a sunset in a landscape, and how to use colour to create the overall ‘feel’ of the painting.
Project 5 – Rural village
In this video we are using the artist GF Nicholls as influence, famed for his beautiful and romantic depictions of The Cotswolds and Cornwall.
Project 6 – Storm Clouds Gathering
This week we are painting a landscape with a very moody, stormy sky. We will be using restricted palette, and washes with bold pigment to create the swirling clouds. This is also an exercise in using the sky as an integral part of the landscape.
MATERIALS LIST
- Pencil – HB ( for light sketching)
- Rubber and ruler – any ordinary pencil rubber and ruler
- Watercolour paper
- Watercolour paint
- Watercolour brushes
- Board
- Water jar
- Masking tape
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
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REFERENCE PHOTOS
My photo reference of cows and Illustrative landscape, and a copy of the finished paintings, Or feel free to choose your own! Please note these are a study aid for this course only, and should not be used for any other reason.
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