Landscape Foundations: Watercolor Seascapes

Dive into Watercolor Seascapes and explore advanced painting techniques from shore to sea! Elevate your skills with guided, step-by-step lessons. Paint seascapes from small waves on shore to crashing waves at sea–five paintings will teach you a wide variety of techniques to use in all your watercolor adventures!

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 hours of video! Teaching video is sped up for efficiency, and full realtime video is also provided.
• Supplies are found in the free preclass lesson
• Language: English
• Closed Captioned

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 (9 min video)
2. A drop in the ocean (20 min instruction + realtime no audio 31 min)
3. A walk in the surf (21 min instruction + realtime no audio 35 min)
4. Lone wave spray (20 min instruction + realtime no audio 30 min)
5. Wave watcher (22 min instruction + realtime no audio 50 min)
6. Surf's up! (28 min instruction + realtime no audio 66 min)

View free pre-class lesson.