fine-art

Watercolour Landscapes

Paint Landscapes That Glow in Transparent Watercolour

12 lessons4 modules10h 30m durationbeginner level

Instructor: StretchLearn Faculty

About this course

This beginner course teaches watercolour landscape painting as a sequence of repeatable skills rather than happy accidents. You will master the wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry techniques, paint graded skies and soft clouds, build foreground texture, and use warm and cool colour to create depth. The course ends in the field, where you learn to simplify a real scene and finish a small painting on location.

Curriculum

Module 1: Materials, Water Control, and the Three Washes3 lessons

A Landscape Watercolour Kit That Will Not Fight YouPreview45m
Stretching Paper and Reading Water on the Surface🔒50m
Flat, Graded, and Variegated Washes🔒55m

Module 2: Skies, Clouds, and Wet-on-Wet Atmosphere3 lessons

Wet-on-Wet and Wet-on-Dry: The Two Core Techniques🔒50m
Painting Skies: Clear, Graded, and Atmospheric🔒55m
Clouds: Soft Edges, Lifting, and Reserved Whites🔒50m

Module 3: Colour, Depth, and the Greens of Landscape3 lessons

A Limited Palette and Mixing Natural Greens🔒55m
Colour Temperature and Creating Depth🔒55m
Composing the Landscape🔒50m

Module 4: Foreground Texture and Painting Plein Air3 lessons

Foreground Texture: Dry-Brush, Lifting, Salt, and Spatter🔒55m
Painting Water, Trees, and Common Landscape Elements🔒50m
Plein-Air Sketching: Painting on Location🔒1h 0m