Landscape Foundations: Watercolor Rocks and Ripples

Join us to explore the Watercolor rocks and ripples! Gain confidence in painting water interactions and elevate your artistic abilities now - small streams, puddles, and rocks that affect water. These lessons build skills that you can pair with others in the Landscape Foundations series courses and create all kinds of paintings your imagination can conjure!

What is a Foundations Course?

Foundations courses methodically walk through many techniques to get artists started on larger artworks (not card-sized); no one was around to help ME make that transition, so I'm going to teach YOU all the things I wish someone taught me, and in an order that makes sense. Each one will build on the last, growing skills and knowledge throughout a watercolorist's journey through the series.

What experience is required for a Level 4 class?

Solid but not extensive experience with watercolor is important for Foundations courses. These classes are designed to help artists make the jump from small to large format, or to give the experienced larger-format painter new ideas for approaching painting techniques.

These courses are not for beginners; I would recommend beginning with Watercolor Jumpstart if you've never done any watercolor at all, as that class deals with basic pigment mixing and management.

Do I need to know how to draw?

For this Landscape series, only limited drawing skills are needed. That's deliberate - I wanted to make watercolor accessible to those with limited drawing experience! So no buildings will be included in these aside from very minor elements so that perspective experience isn't required. Trees, hills, rocks, and skies are easy and forgiving subject matter, and photo resources are carefully selected to help keep the focus on subjects that are doable.

• Intermediate/advanced Level
• 6.5 hours of video! Teaching video is sped up for efficiency, and full realtime video is also provided.
• Supplies are found in the free preview lesson
• Language: English

See the video preview of class below:

The lessons can be viewed anytime and at your leisure; there are hours of instruction that you can watch again and again for years to come:

1. FREE Pre-class Lesson with supply list (27 min video)
2. Negative Painting River Rocks (16 min + realtime 55 min)
3. Gentle Swells (19 min + realtime 49 min)
4. Capillary Waves (15 min + realtime 55 min)
5. Disruptive Raindrops (18 min + realtime 60 min)
6. Submerged Rocks (16 min + realtime 53 min)

Click the preclass lesson below to see the supplies and exercises.

View free pre-class lesson.