Khadija Karachiwala

Experience the Outdoors: A Beginner’s Guide To Watercolor Landscapes

Here is another attempt at a landscape, this time from a photo I took a few summers ago in South Dakota USA of Sunset.

Hi Sue. I love the shades of green in your painting and the distance and depth you’ve been able to create. Plein air is the most invigorating way of painting. Keep going out and creating beautiful paintings.

By the way, there is a mountain behind the clouds in real life. I put it in painting because most of the time it is visible, just not today when I took the picture. It also often has a ring of cloud around it, which I tried to paint.

That’s the beauty of a painting, you get to add and subtract elements. I’m glad you added the hill, it gives character to the painting.

<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/aabb32a1ad221646c6b168c900d3f15e/62d70f7d.jpg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/aabb32a1ad221646c6b168c900d3f15e/62d70f7d.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/aabb32a1ad221646c6b168c900d3f15e/62d70f7d.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="First Plein Air - image 1 - student project"><img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/aabb32a1ad221646c6b168c900d3f15e/6fee2635.jpg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/aabb32a1ad221646c6b168c900d3f15e/6fee2635.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/aabb32a1ad221646c6b168c900d3f15e/6fee2635.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="First Plein Air - image 2 - student project"><img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/aabb32a1ad221646c6b168c900d3f15e/4496794b.JPG 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/aabb32a1ad221646c6b168c900d3f15e/4496794b.JPG 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/aabb32a1ad221646c6b168c900d3f15e/4496794b.JPG" loading="lazy" alt="First Plein Air - image 3 - student project">This is my first plein air painting. I did it after watching this awesome class!<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/aabb32a1ad221646c6b168c900d3f15e/94a4fc52.jpg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/aabb32a1ad221646c6b168c900d3f15e/94a4fc52.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/aabb32a1ad221646c6b168c900d3f15e/94a4fc52.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="First Plein Air - image 4 - student project">

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