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English and Spanish subtitles are available
From a simple lantern element to a complex building facade
with contrasting sunlight.
Architectural painting relies on two skills: academic drawing and watercolor technique.
In the course you will be able to deal consistently with drawing and watercolor right from the architectural details. From exercises to final drawings, everything will be full of life: these are not plaster staging, but real capitals touched by time, textures of dried plaster from city streets, lanterns, not cubes, cones and pyramids.
Classical academic drawing for architectural forms is exactly the foundation that gives the aquarelle artist the confidence to build city streets, house facades, architectural elements, ships, yachts, bicycles.
After drawing, we will add watercolor techniques to our instruction: the proper use of color to create, for example, sunlight, quick sketch subjects, and slow studio work
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Working with watercolor when depicting urban landscapes and architectural elements is composed of several skills:
- Finding subjects in reality
- Composition and arrangement of an object on a sheet of paper
- Finding proportions and dimensions
- Linear and aerial perspective
- Working with shading: seeing and conveying volume
- Illustration of different types of light: diffuse and contrast sunlight
- Features of watercolor technique
- Coloristics and chromatics
- Classical step by step work: from the general to the particular and from light to dark
We'll break down all these points in detail in the context of academic rules and learn how to break them in order to master watercolor for depicting architecture once and for all.
- You work in watercolor, but feel you lack the basic rules of perspective and finding proportions.
- Ever dropped out of academic drawing because you got bored.
- Would like to master classical pencil shading and feel the difference between linear and light-toned drawing.
- Dream to understand such concepts as linear perspective, aerial perspective, tone, flare, penumbra, reflex, falling shadow, own shadow and so on.
- You want to know all secrets how to create realistic architecture in watercolor filled with sunlight on a white sheet of paper.
The course structure will change smoothly from simple to complicated in order to put your hand in the most harmonious way, to develop the sense of rhythm and generally understand the basis of academic drawing as applied to watercolor painting.
Program
1. Construction of a lantern consisting of one element
2 hours 50 min
We will learn how to depict the main thing, work with coloristic sunny landscapes and answer the question: how not to get confused in so many details and draw complex subjects quickly in the studio or in the open air.
2. Construction of a lantern consisting of five elements
3 hours
Complication of the object. Work with the construction of a truncated pyramid. Construction of a lantern consisting of five elements. Composition consisting of different painting techniques: line and construction drawing and watercolor image center in color.
3. Prospective construction of the Gothic temple in Lisbon
2 hours 46 min
A deeper study of the three types of perspective we use when depicting cityscapes: frontal, linear, and aerial.
4. Construction of an architectural element in frontal perspective
2 hours 38 min
5. Creating volume in watercolor
2 hours 53 min
Strengthening the skill of creating sunlight and volume on a white sheet of paper. Work with watercolor.
6. Construction of the architectural element
3 hours
7. Sketch of a street in Barcelona
2 hours 40 min
Будем учиться изображать главное, работать с колористикой солнечных пейзажей и отвечать на вопрос: как не запутаться в таком количестве деталей и рисовать сложные сюжеты быстро в студии или на пленэре.
8. Sunny facade of a building in St. Petersburg
3 hours 15 min
We will learn how to depict the main thing, work with coloristic sunny landscapes and answer the question: how not to get confused in so many details and draw complex subjects quickly in the studio or in the open air.
Author
Julia Barminova
Reviews of author`s courses
I really loved it! Soooo many details, soo beautiful and useful! The only part where I wish the process was not cut is when Julia paints the waves, as a fundamental step and I have the feeling in some parts there were tiny little details missing of how she did it. But overall I have loved it and I am looking forward to trying it over and over again!
Just a bit more indication on how wet the paper is supposed to be would have been welcome :) the rest is perfect. Thank you! I love the restult :)
Julia's explanations were very helpful for understanding how to paint the sea. I had the wrong paper (no 100% cotton), but I'm happy with the first result though. I'm curious how my paintings will look when I have bought 100% cotton paper. Thank you very much!
I really liked how Julia explained her painting - it was very useful for my own painting, I am very happy with it. Thank you very much.
Julia explained everything really nice and I had some mind-blown moments when I thought "oh this explains a lot, why I don't like some of my paintings" because I didn't thought much about contrasts of colors before. But now I will :) It was a bit difficult to read the english subtitles and watch Julia painting simultaneously, but it worked with stopping the videos and going back.
Very clear instruction on the techniques and colour mixing. Really enjoyed painting along!
I was so use full for me, I knew new opprouch
Wonderful course thank you so much!
Very kind and charming instructor, excellent explanations, easy to follow. I especially liked the preparatory exercises to understand the specific watercolor technique Julia Barminova is using.
Julia Barminova explains very well her technique , very good course, thank you
excellent course with very good and comprehensible explanations
Very beautiful and helpful course, love it. Thank you Julia!
Julia Barminova is the best teacher and I love her style very much. Hope there will be much more courses from her, for example painting lanterns or buildings :-)
I like this course with a lot of details with the colours and the sketch. I didn't know that we can draw the reflections on the sea !
Clear instruction provided at a manageable pace.
