Northern Lights: Turning Watercolor Flow into Winter Night Landscapes in three Plots

Learn how to create Nothern Lights in a free flow with Watercolor
What you'll learn


- Managing watercolor flow
- Understanding drying process
- How to apply transparent and opaque paints for creating light
- Making contrast for realistic bright northern lights
- Painting loose fir trees
- Picturing snow using watercolor and gouache mixture
- Enjoying spontaneous painting process
- Not giving up after one try!
Join the class and enjoy watercolors!

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Course description

If you, like me, prefer to control watercolors while painting, this class is for you! Yes-yes, you're not mistaken, here we are going to let watercolor flow freely almost without using brushes!

But how can it help to master your technique? The more freedom you give to your medium, the more you understand it. Playing with water and pigments will help you to control it better in the end. This class is a lot about watercolor streams, very wet technique and paint drying control.

But it's also just super fun ! :)

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Requirements

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

Materials

Here are  materials I used in this project:

You can use paints of similar colors from any manufacturer in tubes or pans, but before you start don't forget to check which colors your paints give when mixed with each other.

Watercolor paper: Arсhes -  100% cotton, cold pressed, 300 gsm + paper for color tests and exercises

Brushes: Flat goat brush 4cm, Round squirrel mix brush 10mm, round synthetic brush 3 mm

Colors:
- May green (White nights), 
- Dioxazine purple (Sennlier), 
- Payne's grey (White nights), 
- Indanthrene blue (Sennelier), 
- Neon Pink (White nights), 
- Titanium White gouache (Linel)

Other:
- Clipboard + masking tape
- Paper towels
- Craft paper for desk protection
- Cup of water
- Water spray (Derwent) - optional

Content
  • Supplies
    Supplies
    02:00
  • Color choice
    Color choice
    04:47
  • Opaque colors
    Opaque colors
    05:15
  • First picture. Background
    First picture. Background
    08:06
  • First picture. Landscape
    First picture. Landscape
    08:43
  • Fir tree exercise
    Fir tree exercise
    07:45
  • Second picture. Background
    Second picture. Background
    07:14
  • Second picture. Foreground
    Second picture. Foreground
    08:43
  • Third picture. Background
    Third picture. Background
    10:39
  • Third picture. Forest background 1
    Third picture. Forest background 1
    06:02
  • Third picture. Forest background 2
    Third picture. Forest background 2
    04:07
  • Third picture. Snow
    Third picture. Snow
    03:00
  • Third picture. Details
    Third picture. Details
    09:23
  • Conclusion
    Conclusion
    01:05
Maria Smirnova
Maria Smirnova
Watercolor artist and tutor
Maria is a passionate watercolorist, author of watercolor courses, video lesson’s creator, participant of different competitions and exhibitions. Her paintings can be found all around the world from the USA to Malaysia.  
This course includes:
  • Languages :
    en
  • Subtitles :
    -
  • Content :
    14 lessons
  • Duration :
    1h 30m
  • Level :
    Beginner
  • Updated :
    2021-12-31
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