Loose Natural Landscapes - Combining Watercolor and Gouache

🎉 Course Title: Loose Natural Landscapes - Combining Watercolor and Gouache! ✨ Bonus Workshop Included!

Course Description 🎨

Hello and a warm welcome to all you budding landscape artists! In this comprehensive course, we're embarking on a creative journey to paint two breathtaking natural landscapes using the stunning combination of watercolor and gouache. Gouache, with its opaque quality, will help us create those striking highlights that truly bring a painting to life.

📚 Learning Through Steps

• Planning Perfection: We'll start by mastering the art of planning your painting. You'll learn how to simplify shapes and sketch out the large components like sky, water, trees, grass, and land accurately before we even touch our paintbrushes.

• Technique Mastery: Whether you're a beginner or looking to refine your skills, we'll cover various techniques such as wet-in-wet and wet-in-dry methods to paint clouds, skies, grass, basic trees, flowers, and even how to add a touch of human presence to your landscape.

• Adding Depth and Shadows: Discover the secrets to layering effectively, combining these layers for natural depth, and identifying or choosing a light source to create realistic shadows in your painting.

🚀 Your Learning Outcomes

• Learn to paint simple yet evocative natural landscapes in watercolor.
• Sketch and plan your paintings accurately for a cohesive end result.
• Utilize wet-in-wet techniques to create fluid effects in the sky, clouds, and grass.
• Paint trees and flowers with ease and minimal effort.
• Add a human touch to your landscape in a natural and simple way.
• Enhance your painting with effective layering and details for depth.
• Understand how to paint shadows naturally.

🖼️ Assignment: Create Your Own Watercolour Landscape!

Your course project is to draw and paint a watercolor landscape that resonates with you. This could be inspired by the scenes we cover in this course, or from a photograph of your own, or perhaps an observation from nature. Use the provided scanned drawing/painting templates as a guide if you wish, but I encourage you to draw each scene freehand for a more enriching experience.

🎭 Materials Needed

• 0.5mm mechanical pencil for precise sketching.
• Artist grade watercolor paints in primary colors (blue, yellow, red).
• High-quality 100% cotton watercolour paper or a sketchbook to ensure optimal results.
• A variety of watercolor brushes, including a mop brush for broader strokes and round brushes for detailed work.

🎞️ Getting Started

Before you dive into your drawing and painting, make sure to review the course demonstration videos. These will be your guide through each step of the process. If you're looking to sketch and paint another scene, feel free to use reference photos from the web or find a scenic spot to capture with your eyes and brush.

🖼️ Share Your Artwork!

Once you've completed your painting, I invite you to share your progress and final masterpiece in the Q&A and discussion section on Udemy. Your fellow students and I would love to see how you bring the natural landscape to life with watercolor and gouache! If you have any questions or need additional guidance, please don't hesitate to reach out. Let's create some magical landscapes together! 🌄💖

✨ Bonus Workshop: Paint a House and Natural Landscape Scene! ✨

As a special added bonus, we have an exclusive workshop where we'll paint a house alongside a natural landscape. This will give you even more practice in combining different elements to create a harmonious and detailed painting. Keep an eye out for this exciting extra content in the course! 🏠➡️🌄

I can't wait to see your creativity unfold as you learn and grow with each stroke of your brush. Welcome aboard, artists! Let's make some splashes of color and bring nature to life on canvas. Happy painting! 🎨✨