Watercolor Mountain Lake Landscape: Learn to Paint Realistic Clouds and Reflections

Inspired by my recent hiking and sketching trip to the Alps, in this class I will teach you some tips and tricks for painting realistic mountain lake landscapes, paying particular attention to the combination of basic techniques, water control and wet-on-wet approach.

With my guidance this work will be split into doable steps. You’ll see a demonstration of each of them and will get the instructions for better process understanding. You also will find a few photo references in the class materials for your independent practice.

Join this class and you will learn:

• to plan a composition and a course of work
• to better control pigment/water ratio
• to apply atmospheric perspective for creating multiply plans in the landscape
• a method for keeping the paper wet for longer
• a combination of basic watercolor techniques
• to mix loose watercolor with precise details
• to blend colors for harmonious reduced color palette

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

I'm looking forward to seeing you in the class!

Here are the materials I used in this project:

Paper:

Centenaire: 100% cotton paper, cold pressed, 300 gsm (you can take any other paper with the same characteristics), 31x25 cm + paper for color tests and exercises

Watercolors:

Naples yellow, White nights

French vermilion, Sennelier

Olive green, Sennelier

French Ultramarine blue, Sennelier

Payne's Grey, Sennelier

Blue Sennelier (Phthalo blue), Sennelier

Brushes:

Goat flat brush 3 cm or any wide flat natural brush for moistening the paper (optional)

Round squirrel / squirrel mix / squirrel imitation brush (6-10 mm fits well)

Small (about 3-6 mm ) round synthetic brush for details (mixed / imitation / natural will do this job as well)

Other:

Plastic WATERPROOF board

Cup of water

Paper towels

Masking tape

Pencil and eraser