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This class is designed for beginners to intermediate watercolor artists, who would like to learn how to create their tropical seascapes with distant islands and palm trees.

Even if you never painted in watercolor before you took this class, I got your back. We will learn all the basics together and gradually increase all the information, whilst keeping it easy to understand and digest.

The class is separated into 3 major parts:

Composing a Painting
Exercises
Final Projects

In the first part, we will go through all the basics tips and techniques whilst learning to compose well organized and cohesive looking paintings. They will help you to understand how watercolor behaves and why.

This part is including:

Basic Watercolor Techniques
Loose Watercolor Techniques
Perspective and Composition
Basic Color Mixing and How to Avoid Muddy Mixtures
How to Create Cohesive Looking Painting

Once we know the basics of composing interesting paintings, we will learn how to thumbnail our ideas to build a perception of the way that our final painting project will look. This will take away the fear of blank pages and the frustration of messing up your painting because you are already prepared mentally that this is just an exercise that will help you to explore different techniques and concepts.

In this second part you will learn to:

Paint 4 Simple Skies and How They Can Set The Mood for Your Seascape
Paint 4 Distant Islands and How to Save Time Whilst Exploring Ideas
Choose How Distinct or Vague Each Element Will Be Painted
Draw Different Types of Palm Trees

In this third phase of your learning journey, you would already have practiced all the different techniques that you need to attempt a finished painting. Now you can go ahead and jump into the final part of this class where we will paint your final projects. Each of them is created as an easy Step-by-Step tutorial, so you can easily follow along. They are positioned in an order of increasing difficulty, to ensure that you will build your skills better with more practice. I encourage you to follow the order they are organized but feel free to paint them in whichever order you prefer.

For your final projects you will explore:

Daytime Tropical Seascape
Tropical Sunset by The Beach
Boat in Water with a Small Island
Fishing Boat Laying on a Palm Tree
Your Own Creative Task

By the end of this class, you will have an understanding of how Watercolor behaves and how to work with it, instead of trying to control it. Through learning all the basics you will build a perfect knowledge base and confidence in your skills, so you can implement everything learnt above in your future paintings. You will have completed four step-by-step projects and one creative task. The last lesson is designed to get the most out of your learning. Here you will choose a reference image, create your composition, choose your preferred colors and create your own Tropical Watercolor Seascape. If you are ready for this exciting journey, gather your paint supplies and let's just jump right in.

Project Description:

For the final project in this class we will have four different individual projects as a paint along and one additional 5th as a creative task. I recommend you to watch each project before you make an attempt to paint it, so you will understand each step better, but feel free to follow along.

In the beginning of each project we will discuss all the materials that we will need in order to create it.

Each painting we will start with a pencil sketch of the horizon line and then we will draw a simple outline of all of the objects on the middleground and the foreground (distant islands, the palm trees and boats). Then we will paint each object separately and leave them time to dry. This will help you to focus on one exercise at a time, so you can paint them at your own pace and have the time to learn and reflect on each action. Some of the techniques and elements that we will paint will require repetitive actions, which will allow you to relax and enjoy the process, but all of them are easy to achieve and don't require any prior knowledge.

By creating each of the projects gradually you will learn all of the techniques and build more confidence in your skills. This will not only help you to learn to paint any tropical seascape, but you will have an understanding of the way to break down the whole watercolor painting process into small easy segments. That way they are a lot easier to approach and you will take away the fear of failure.

After creating the four paint along projects you will have one last task. For this class project I would like you to make your creative juices flowing. You will have to choose your own reference image and paint it at your own pace using all the tips and techniques that we already learned previously in this class. This will give you the most of the class, as you can practice everything on your own.

Take your time to choose a reference image that really intrigues you, study the colors and composition. Once you are feeling ready to paint, try to imagine the end result of your project. If you cannot imagine every step of the way or you face the fear of the blank page, take a small piece of paper and paint a thumbnail, two or even more of it. Feel free to experiment with the colors and composition. Even though you have a reference image, that doesn't mean that you are limited to only what you see there. Feel free to add or remove any part of it. This will help you to choose the best possible variation, building confidence in your skills and preparing yourself for success.

I have prepared a few copyright free photos for you. If you would like to choose any of them for your creative task project you can find them in the resource section of the class or can use your own image.

I`m looking forward to seeing what you will come up with. Once you complete your class projects you can upload all of them into the project section of the class. I will check and comment on each of your works.

If you face any difficulties, please feel free to ask me a question in the Discussion section of the class, so I can answer your question as soon as I can. This way you are helping fellow artists that may have the same question to easily find the answer.

Have fun with your project and Happy Painting! :)

If you are interested to check my whole class planning template, please follow the link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Z85FfyMP77HMksuoEPYO4RP31q97uSuSt1PNUXmq2c/edit?usp=sharing

Tropical Watercolor Seascapes: Learn to Compose Your Own Summer Paintings - image 1 - student project

Tropical Watercolor Seascapes: Learn to Compose Your Own Summer Paintings - image 2 - student project

Tropical Watercolor Seascapes: Learn to Compose Your Own Summer Paintings - image 3 - student project

Tropical Watercolor Seascapes: Learn to Compose Your Own Summer Paintings - image 4 - student project

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