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Lesson contents

EXERCISE №1

Firs in watercolor

Running time: 10 min

Professional English voice-over + subtitles

Let's repeat the exercise from the Freedom of Light course, where we learned how to convey the character of the firs in different ways using different brushes. We will choose the most successful technique to use in the big artwork.

EXERCISE №2

Learning to convey character

Running time: 55 min

Professional English voice-over + subtitles

We will paint three small preparatory studies with silhouettes in order to practice depicting trees of different characters. 

FINAL ARTWORK

Painting a landscape

Running time: 1 hour and 50 min

Professional English voice-over + subtitles

We will paint a big artwork on a 38 * 56 cm sheet in the analogous color harmony. We will depict fog over the forest, we will practice depicting the transparency of water and reflections, as well as trees of complex configuration.

It has already become a tradition for me to share with my students only my best plots,

full-fledged watercolors of exhibition quality, in which you can go through all the stages of working

on a large format and demonstrate many techniques and secrets of mastery.

This work has an interesting fate:

it is currently on display at the international exhibition in Melbourne, Australia (3 place),

and the video with this watercolor has got almost 1 million views on Instagram.

And I am very glad that now you too can paint this well-loved plot, too.

Who is this course for?

YOU WILL NEED

Materials

• Brushes: 1. wide flat brush for wetting the sheet; 2. wide flat brushes №25-30 with soft hair;
  3. fan brush №2-4; 4. squirrel/imitation/synthetics with a fine tip № 4-6;
  5. different thin brushes with a thin tip (rigger brush, calligraphy brush and others)
• Watercolor paints (Mijello/ RockWell Art/ White Nights/ Pinax/ Van Gogh/ Shinhan and others)
• Watercolor paper 100% cotton 280-300 gr  Saunders Waterford/ Arches/ Hahnemuhle/
  Baohong s8 / Fabriano and others
• Masking tape, white gouache

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