Watercolour Landscapes for Beginners
In this course, learn to paint any landscape, real or imagined.
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About the Artist and the Course
Laura Krieger is a Toronto based watercolour artist specialising in landscapes. She finds Landscapes to be inspiring. She started painting with photos from her travels to revisit positive memories and reunite with her creative self.
Beginner's Watercolour for Landscapes
A Step-by-Step, Beginner-friendly Course
Learn the basics of water and brush control, colour mixing, washes, glazes, and textures, culminating in the creation of a stunning watercolour landscape painting.
What will I learn
Class 1: Welcome to Watercolour
Length: 1 hour
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.
Class 2: Water Control, Brush Control and Values
Length: 1 hour
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.
Class 3: Limited Palette Colour Mixing
Length: 1 hour
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.
Class 4: Basic Watercolour Washes
Length: 1 hour
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.
Class 5: Glazes and Layers
Length: 1 hour
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.
Class 6: Texture Galore
Length: 1 hour
Begin to take it to the next level. You will learn many tips and tricks to create exciting textures in your Watercolour Landscapes.
Class 7: Landscape Architecture
Length: 1 hour
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.
What are others saying
Valerie A
The was course was very informative, and I really enjoyed painting the landscape. I like the exercise from light to dark vice versa with the different colors.
Kathy A
Thank you Laura. I am not a rank beginner but I am finding these beginner landscape lessons very helpful. They fill in the gaps (and there are many) in my learning. 👍😊
