Do you enjoy observing the details of an urban scene and would like to represent it in watercolor? You are warmly welcome to join this class! Here, you will acquire effective and practical techniques to master the art of capturing watercolor cityscapes. As artist, having a fundamental grasp of the single-point perspective drawing technique will elevate your skills and enhance your watercolor paintings. On the other hand, if you’ve never explored this subject before, this class will instill the confidence you need to take the first step in painting the city scenes you love.
Throughout the lessons, you’ll learn how to convey depth and proportion using basic perspective drawing and watercolor techniques. You’ll discover a genuinely playful and intuitive creative process!
In this class you will:
- Understand how a single-point perspective works and why it is an effective tool.
- Get familiarized with perspective basic concepts: horizon line, single point perspective, convergence lines and human figure drawing.
- Create a monochromatic watercolor sketch to understand how tonal values and perspective complement each other.
- How useful a limited color palette is: You need only 5 colors!
- Learn how color mixing helps us through temperature and with the illusion of depth.
- Apply previous knowledge in a final project sketching a beautiful Mexican town urban scene.
