How To Paint An English Castle Scene Watercolour

Learn how to paint a Castle and Cathedral Landscape using Watercolor. Get INCREDIBLE detail with fine brushes.

What you'll learn

Learn AMAZING New Watercolour Techniques

Understand building colours and layers with watercolour

Understand how to paint skies, water, castle/cathedral buildings, foliage and more

How to use brushes for fine details

Requirements

Watercolor Paper (I use 300gsm smooth watercolor paper)

Variety of Brushes - Most Commonly No.6, No.4, No. 3, No.1, No.00, Half Inch Flat and Quarter Inch Flat.

Watercolor Paints (I use Winsor and Newton Cotman watercolour pans but you can use any you like)

Hardboard backing board (for taping your work to)

Graphite pencils & sharpener - optional if drawing free hand (we provide an outline drawing)

Brown sticky tape!

Kitchen roll

Water container

Description

When I first started using Watercolour in 1980 I was inspired to copy the great artists such as Constable, Quinton and others. I couldn’t get on with oil or acrylic so turned my hand at watercolour. As I had never gone to art school I just went with my instincts and had fun! Because I tried to copy the great artists, the techniques I developed were completely unique and unlike any other watercolour pictures I saw.I remained self taught, learnt as I went along and what you’ll see in this course is a result of years of learning through mistakes and finding what worked. You’ll also see techniques never before attempted with watercolour (as far as I know). My watercolour pictures, even though they’re “impressionistic”, have a sense of realism about them.In this course I’ll give you an outline drawing so that you can print this straight to watercolour paper or trace it using a carbon. I’ll also show you the materials I use in my watercolour work. Then we’ll get started with the paintings which are split into “easy to digest” parts.With this course you will learn to paint a landscape of Rochester in Kent - the "Garden of England" . In this course you'll learn to paint a distant castle, cathedral, river, boat, trees and more.I hope you enjoy learning my watercolour techniques, once you are finished, please do share your artwork via the Q & A section or message us using Udemy's messaging tools.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Getting Started - Materials

Lecture 3 Colours Used in this course

Section 2: Video Course

Lecture 4 Part 1

Lecture 5 Part 2

Lecture 6 Part 3

Lecture 7 Part 4

Section 3: Summary - Share Your Work

Lecture 8 Sharing your work

Students wishing to try a new approach to watercolour,Artists coming from other mediums wishing to learn watercolour techniques