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How To Paint Boat Landscapes: Watercolor Essentials

Discover the art of painting captivating boat scenes with our creative watercolour course. Enroll now and unleash your artistic skills! Read more.

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Course Skill Level
Beginner
Time Estimate
4h 29m

Hello, I'm Darren Yeo, a watercolour artist and teacher based in Melbourne, Australia. I am the founder of one of the largest watercolour learning communities, "Watercolour Mentor". My work features predominantly natural landscapes, urban streetscapes, and portraiture in watercolor medium. Watercolours are special to me because there is a sense of finality once an area has dried – you can’t erase or go over that area to ‘fix’ it. You need to accept and work with what is there. To lea

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About This Course

Who this course is for:

  • Beginner students in watercolour
  • Students aiming to loosen up their painting
  • Students learning boat and water landscapes in watercolour

What you’ll learn: 

  • Essential watercolour techniques such as wet-in-wet and wet-in-dry
  • Simplifying any photograph into a loose drawing/painting
  • Paint various boat landscapes quickly and easily
  • How to loosen up your brushstrokes whilst maintaining detail
  • How to paint quickly and maintain vibrancy in your paintings
  • How to plan your scene through sketching and composition

Requirements: 

  • No prerequisites

Welcome to “How to Paint Boat Landscapes: Watercolor Essentials”! In this course, I’m going to show you how to paint 8 different boat landscapes in watercolour. One of the things I struggled with as a beginner was learning how to loosen up my brushstrokes while preserving a sense of realism.

This class will help you loosen up as well as go through some essential wet-on-wet watercolour techniques when painting boats, water, reflections and surrounding objects. This class is aimed at beginners to intermediate learners.

We’ll be painting a variety of simple boat and water landscapes that will build your confidence in understanding and applying various watercolour techniques and processes. We also go through composition and how to plan your painting, selecting colours and elements for the story you want to tell.

You will need some watercolour paper, watercolour paints consisting of blue, yellow, red and green, a 3/4 inch and number 6 flat brush, and a number 4 round brush.

What’s included in this course:

  • Essential watercolour techniques such as wet-in-wet and wet-in-dry
  • Simplifying any photograph into a loose drawing/painting
  • Paint various boat landscapes quickly and easily
  • How to loosen up your brushstrokes whilst maintaining detail
  • How to paint quickly and maintain vibrancy in your paintings
  • How to plan your scene through sketching and composition

I’m looking forward to sharing my knowledge with you, so join me in this class and you’ll be producing some simple and beautiful paintings in no time!

Our Promise to You

By the end of this course, you will have learned how to paint a variety of boat landscapes quickly and easily while mastering essential watercolour techniques.

10 Day Money Back Guarantee. If you are unsatisfied for any reason, simply contact us and we’ll give you a full refund. No questions asked.

Get started today!

Course Curriculum

Section 1 - Introduction And Materials
Introduction And Materials 00:00:00
Section 2 - 'Paint-along' Demonstrations
Lucerne Boats 00:00:00
Cinque Terre 00:00:00
Nearby Boats And Jetty 00:00:00
Simple Boat Silhouettes 00:00:00
Mountains And Boats 00:00:00
Boats On Rocky Shore 00:00:00
Boats In Harbour 00:00:00
Boats And Buildings 00:00:00
Class Project 00:00:00

About This Course

Who this course is for:

  • Beginner students in watercolour
  • Students aiming to loosen up their painting
  • Students learning boat and water landscapes in watercolour

What you’ll learn: 

  • Essential watercolour techniques such as wet-in-wet and wet-in-dry
  • Simplifying any photograph into a loose drawing/painting
  • Paint various boat landscapes quickly and easily
  • How to loosen up your brushstrokes whilst maintaining detail
  • How to paint quickly and maintain vibrancy in your paintings
  • How to plan your scene through sketching and composition

Requirements: 

  • No prerequisites

Welcome to “How to Paint Boat Landscapes: Watercolor Essentials”! In this course, I’m going to show you how to paint 8 different boat landscapes in watercolour. One of the things I struggled with as a beginner was learning how to loosen up my brushstrokes while preserving a sense of realism.

This class will help you loosen up as well as go through some essential wet-on-wet watercolour techniques when painting boats, water, reflections and surrounding objects. This class is aimed at beginners to intermediate learners.

We’ll be painting a variety of simple boat and water landscapes that will build your confidence in understanding and applying various watercolour techniques and processes. We also go through composition and how to plan your painting, selecting colours and elements for the story you want to tell.

You will need some watercolour paper, watercolour paints consisting of blue, yellow, red and green, a 3/4 inch and number 6 flat brush, and a number 4 round brush.

What’s included in this course:

  • Essential watercolour techniques such as wet-in-wet and wet-in-dry
  • Simplifying any photograph into a loose drawing/painting
  • Paint various boat landscapes quickly and easily
  • How to loosen up your brushstrokes whilst maintaining detail
  • How to paint quickly and maintain vibrancy in your paintings
  • How to plan your scene through sketching and composition

I’m looking forward to sharing my knowledge with you, so join me in this class and you’ll be producing some simple and beautiful paintings in no time!

Our Promise to You

By the end of this course, you will have learned how to paint a variety of boat landscapes quickly and easily while mastering essential watercolour techniques.

10 Day Money Back Guarantee. If you are unsatisfied for any reason, simply contact us and we’ll give you a full refund. No questions asked.

Get started today!

Course Curriculum

Section 1 - Introduction And Materials
Introduction And Materials 00:00:00
Section 2 - 'Paint-along' Demonstrations
Lucerne Boats 00:00:00
Cinque Terre 00:00:00
Nearby Boats And Jetty 00:00:00
Simple Boat Silhouettes 00:00:00
Mountains And Boats 00:00:00
Boats On Rocky Shore 00:00:00
Boats In Harbour 00:00:00
Boats And Buildings 00:00:00
Class Project 00:00:00

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