Enjoy painting fresh, lively landscape watercolors, with this 6-online session watercolor course dedicated to explore and practice methods and techniques aimed to improve your technical skills, obtain clean and vibrant colors, paint more efficiently and confidently. These skills will be also particularly useful when applied to painting any subject in watercolor.

During each 3-hour painting session, we will create a watercolor landscape painting going through a variety of steps that will help you to further develop your painting skills. The painting sessions will start with small, quick studies, to decide composition, color palette to use and painting approach. After these studies, we will proceed to work on a final, larger painting, working from original photographic references of a variety of landscapes I will provide. These images are copyright free and you will be able to enter your artworks in art shows and competitions.

We will also copy artworks by Master watercolorists such as Wyeth, Turner, Hopper, to study their technique and to further develop our own.

Open to all levels

Materials list

• Paint: cadmium red medium, alizarine crimson, cadmium yellow lemon, cadmium yellow medium, earth red, (Indian red, Venetian red or burnt Sienna) yellow ochre, ultramarine blue, ultramarine violet, black, burnt umber, sepia, cobalt blue, cobalt violet, sap green, Hooker’s green, and any other colors you might already have
• Paper: a pad (12” by 16” or so of cold press paper.
• Brushes: #2 and #8 or 10, round. You can use synthetic or natural sables (Kolinsky or red sable), a flat, synthetic brush, about ¾ “will do.