I have always been fascinated by people who could paint what they saw. When I just started my art journey all I ever wanted to do was paint beautiful landscapes from reference or go on a little trip and paint the beauty that was in front of me but I didn't know where to start. After all, how can you “paint what you see” if you don’t know what to look for?

Over the years, I’ve understood the rule of breaking the landscapes down into different bits and then putting the puzzles back together to taking a gorgeous landscape reference photo and turning it into a unique watercolour painting.

In this class, we'll be exploring the lake landscapes together using watercolours. We'll start with knowing the right type of art supplies you need while working with watercolours to enhance your artworks, Next, we'll be learning about the watercolours techniques and how to analyse them while looking at a reference picture. Using Our knowledge of the watercolour techniques I will walk you through painting 6 types of skies that I personally use in my paintings. We'll also discuss how we paint reflections on moving & still bodies of water.

After learning all the basics we will put these puzzles together to paint our class project. I have also uploaded some bonus reference images for you to try out as well that will help you understand the composition better.

So, if you're enthusiastic about learning how to paint lakes from reference images then join me in this class and let's go on a wonderful watercolour journey together.

Manuel Lopez Cabrera

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