Country Barn House Landscape in Watercolour

Discover the joy of watercolor painting with this beginner-friendly course! Learn to create a beautiful, loose country barn house scene – perfect for artists just starting their watercolor journey. This course focuses on capturing the beauty of natural landscapes in a quick and expressive style.

What you'll learn:

• Watercolor Techniques for Landscapes: Master wet-in-wet watercolor techniques to paint realistic trees, grass, and sky.
• Sketching & Planning: Learn how to effectively sketch landscape paintings in pencil, including simplifying shapes and planning composition with foliage, trees, grass, and land. Proper planning is key to a successful watercolor painting.
• Painting Trees & Foliage: Develop simple methods for painting trees, branches, and leaves with minimal brushstrokes.
• Adding Figures to Landscapes: Learn how to incorporate people into landscapes in a natural and unobtrusive way.
• Layering for Depth: Master layering techniques to add depth and dimension to your watercolor paintings.
• Creating Shadows & Light: Understand how to paint simple shadows and identify or choose a light source to enhance your scenes.
• Building Depth: Combine layers to create a natural sense of depth in your watercolor artwork.
• Loose Painting Style: Develop a loose painting style ideal for capturing the spontaneity and expressiveness of watercolor.
• Country Barn House Painting: Step-by-step guidance on how to paint a charming country barn house scene in watercolor.

Course Highlights:

• Bonus Workshops: Expand your skills with included workshops on painting an urban night scene (Melbourne) and a fall scene (Japan).
• Beginner-Friendly: Designed for artists with no prior watercolor experience.
• Expressive Results: Learn to create spontaneous and expressive watercolor paintings.

Materials:

• Watercolor Paints: Artist-grade watercolors in blue, yellow, and red.
• Paper: Watercolor paper (100% cotton recommended) or a watercolor sketchbook.
• Brushes: A mop brush and a variety of round brushes for detail work.
• Pencil: 0.5mm mechanical pencil.

Course Project:

Create your own country landscape painting! You can either paint a scene from the course or use your own reference photos or outdoor observations. Tracing templates are provided for assistance. Drawing is an important step in the painting process.

Get Started:

Review the course demonstration videos and download the tracing templates. Find reference photos online or paint from life!

Share Your Work:

Share your progress and finished paintings in the Q&A or discussion section. Questions and feedback are welcome!