Romantic Sunset on a Lake

Learn to paint realistic water and simple and loose fir trees

What you'll learn
Course description
Requirements
Content

What you'll learn

paint simple and quick fir trees
create warm sunset light in the picture
paint realistic calm water of the lake
make a fog effect in painting
choose a brush for different type of work

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Course description

In this live session you’ll get explanations and exercises that will help you to understand better how to paint realistic water and simple and loose fir trees.

Then you’ll see a step by step demo of painting sunset on the lake from a pencil drawing to final details. You also will have time to paint your own picture.

This is a recording of a Live-Course.

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Requirements

The course is interesting for beginners as well as for advanced artists who want to improve their technique more and more.

No special drawing skills are required.

Materials:

Paper:
Arches 300 gsm, cold pressed 100% cotton 25x25cm
same paper for exercises and color tests

Brushes:
- Flat goat brush 3cm
- Squirrel mix brush 10mm
- Flat squirrel brush 16mm
- Natural or mixed brushes numbers 2-6 for details

Colors:
- Aureolin
- Naples yellow
- Orange Sennelier (PO73)
- Indanthrene blue
- Payne’s grey

Other:
- Waterproof tablet (important!)
- Pencil and eraser
- Paper towels
- Paper adhesive tape
- Paper clips 2-3 cm size (optional)
- Water spray (optional)
- Plastic or ceramic palette
- Water

Content

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: