Swan Lake: How to paint water with watercolors

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Free Online Course: Swan Lake: How to paint water with watercolors provided by Skillshare is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Swan Lake: How to paint water with watercolors is taught by Maria Smirnova.

Overview
  • It's hard to find better medium to paint water than watercolor. But is also can be very tricky when you start creating waves. An understanding of  how the technique works may help to make it easier !

    Join this class and you will discover:

    • How to paint white objects on a dark background
    • How to combine wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry techniques
    • How to work with limited color palette
    • How to paint water surface with waves 
    • How to use masking liquid

    The lesson may be interesting both for amateurs artists who never stop improving their technique and for courageous beginners.


    I'm looking forward to seeing you in the class!

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    Music: bensound.com

Syllabus
    • What is this class about?
    • Supplies
    • Exercises
    • Pencil drawing
    • Masking white zones
    • Water: Preparing paper
    • Painting water
    • Reflections
    • Birds
    • Birds : Last touches