Watercolour Landscapes for Beginners

Great question! Here is a short description for every single class:

Session 1: Welcome to Watercolour

In this lesson, Laura provides the course overview, introduces Watercolour basics and principles, and demonstrates Watercolour materials. In addition, you will experiment with washes and brush marks, skills that will get refined as you progress through the course.

Session 2: Water Control, Brush Control and Values

In this lesson, you will learn and practice water and brush control by learning about value. You will experiment with value range of individual colours in your palette while creating fun and exciting gradients to be used in future paintings of this course.

Session 3: Limited Palette Colour Mixing

Learn the basics of Colour Mixing and Colour theory using a limited palette. You will learn to mix neutral tones, dark values and even black without using any black pigment.

By the end of this session, you will have created many colour charts that will act as a reference for future paintings.

You will also learn to see and colour-match your reference photos and be surprised that sometimes the colour you see is different from what you thought!

Session 4: Basic Watercolour Washes

The real fun of Landscape painting begins, as it's all about Watercolour washes. You will explore wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry painting techniques and experiment with hard and soft edges.

Laura will show you how to time your washes to avoid common Watercolour pitfalls.

Session 5: Glazes and Layers

Build on your Washes and learn how to create deep and complex colours by layering multiple washes of Watercolour on top of each other.

Laura will teach you how to create edges and paint from light to dark, which is crucial for painting with Watercolour.

Session 6:Texture Galore

Begin to take it to the next level. You will learn many tips and tricks to create exciting textures in your Watercolour Landscapes.

Splatters, salts, dry brushing, blooms .. the possibilities the endless!

Session 7: Landscape Architecture

Take everything you learned and bring it together for a Watercolour Landscape Painting. Laura will go through the planning process, choosing a good reference photo, the importance of a good drawing, and choosing composition and colour profiles.

After this class, you will have a reliable method to paint more landscapes.

Every class will be streamed live, but the content is pre-recorded. The teacher will be present during the first class to welcome you in person and answer any questions you have.

Our hosts will do a weekly live stream in which they play the recorded class. You will be able to participate live through the chat function. The host will be there to address all your questions and pause the video if needed.

During the course, Laura will also address questions from participants on the exclusive Facebook group for the course.

At the end of the course, we will do a fully live Q&A session with Laura. You'll be able to participate via chat, ask her all your questions, and get feedback on your final assignment.

No Problem! Each week has an assigned class. You are welcome to join the Live class hosted by our Hosts and watch the class with other participants or Watch the recording of the class at your own time during the week.

We also have a recorded video for each homework that we will upload every Saturday right after the Live Class takes place. Please watch it and upload your work to the Facebook group so you can get some feedback on it from Laura.

This course is free for all Subscribers.

Please email us at hello@etchrstudio.com to indicate your interest in participating, and you are all set.

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*Program participation is withdrawn once the subscription is no longer active

No, you don't! You have free access to this new and improved version of the program.

We first launched this course back in 2021, but with a different structure, without the community support, no study groups, and with no homework assignments.

If you have already purchased the previous version, please email us at hello@etchrstudio.com, and we will set up your access to this program.

For the Live viewing of the first class, Laura will be present Live, provide an overview of the course and be available to answer any questions.

For the subsequent classes, the class will be hosted by other knowledgeable Artists.

During the course, Laura will be active on the private Facebook group and answer any questions.

Each class will present you with a new challenge assignment. If you submit it on the private Facebook group asking for critique, you will get feedback from Laura and other group members.

At the end of the course, Laura will also provide feedback on your final pieces in a Live Feedback Session.

However, it is worth noting that this feedback will be at a high level; something to guide your next steps. This is also reflective of the price being charged for the 7-class series plus the support and feedback provided along the way.

These are the essential Art Supplies:

1. Watercolour paper;

2. Watercolour paints;

3. Various sizes of Watercolour brushes;

4. Loose sheets of paper;

5. Pencil.

However, we highly encourage you to check the complete list of all the supplies used in this link. 

We had an Early Bird pricing until November 4th, 12:30pm EST.

Anyone who purchased the course before this date and time got a 25% discount (U$56 instead of U$75).

We're here to help. Please shoot us an email at hello@etchrstudio.com and we will get back to you as quickly as possible.