Travel Sketches in Watercolor: Capture your Surroundings
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Learn watercolor techniques to capture the color, light, and atmosphere of a place in your sketchbook
Want to know what makes plein air painting so special? In this online course, artist Timo Bechert takes you on an unforgettable journey into the world of watercolor painting. Learn techniques to help you gain confidence in the medium and paint atmospheric pieces full of expression.
His work has been featured in group exhibitions around the world, alongside that of maestros like Caspar David Friedrich, Vincent Van Gogh, and Albrecht Dürer, and he has painted in more than 18 countries throughout his artistic career. He teaches you all you need to know about plein air painting. Get ready to explore and capture the eternal magic of a place, using your brush and watercolors to express it in the form of a vibrant painting.
Start the course by meeting your teacher, artist Timo Bechert. Discover how he got started in the world of watercolor and his main sources of inspiration.
Next, Timo shows you the basic processes of painting with this medium and explains the right materials to use for working outdoors. Before heading outside, learn how to simplify the essential characteristics of a complex object then test how your paper reacts to paint and the wet-on-wet technique, among others.
Look for inspiration in an outdoor space and compile your references on a mood board. Make several sketches of scenes and objects, analyzing the basics of perspective drawing and composition.
Add details to your sketches to build complexity and gradually get used to painting outdoors. After that, explore the importance of grayscale, which you then complement with a color study. To finish this section, color your final piece and decorate it with a sentence.
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