In this class we'll be quickly and easily capturing the essence of our urban scenes and rural landscapes using simple ink and watercolour processes.

Do you often get lost trying to capture a photo realistic scene? Or get that fear of white paper, where you're just not sure where you should start?

Perhaps you're bored of creativity, and really want to let loose and get more of your personality on the page!

If so, this is the class for you!

Aims of this class:

Understand what we mean by the essence of a scene
Use simple techniques to start with confidence
Learn how to use thumbnails to help visualise and simplify our scene
Develop watercolour techniques to create beautiful watercolour paint effects
Create quick, loose and lively ink and watercolour sketches

And most importantly, we'll enjoy the whole process as we relax and sketch!

This is the style of watercolour and ink sketching you can expect to learn more about today!

Capturing the Essence

The essence of a scene is all about getting what is important to you on the page.

If you're stuck with creativity, finding your sketches too busy or overworked - then you're probably not allowing yourself the freedom to make decisions about the scene.

Decisions that allow you to capture the essence and get your personality on the page.

In this class, we'll set all of that right!

Urban Sketching AND Landscape Painting

With these simple ink and watercolour techniques you'll be able to feel confident to sketch urban scenes, inside or en plein air. But also to take you pen and paints to more rural and traditional landscapes, crafting beautiful landscape sketches too.

Here is a fun and lively landscape using these same techniques!

Suitable for beginners

As with all my classes, these lessons are fully narrated in real time and take you step by step through all my thoughts and processes.

I'm confident that anybody from beginners to more advanced sketchers and painters could gain something from this class.

Ink and watercolour sketching

Ink and watercolours, otherwise known as pen and watercolor or line and wash - all these different names mean the same thing.

Quick and lively ink sketching, to create a framework for our colours. Then splashing on those lovely watercolours to create amazing effects from this unique and special media.

The essence of this scene is those beautifully coloured houses - everything else can be left loose and to the imagination.

Looking forward to having you join me :)

Audio credits:

Apero Hour Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons By Attribution 4.0 License
httpcreativecommons.orglicensesby4.0

Sarah Gartland

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