Watercolor painting with Master step-by-step: Poppy field

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Learners: 5,819

Instructor: Vitalii Dets

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Learn professional watercolor techniques easy and fast with this step-by-step video course "Watercolor trip to France: Poppy field" from Ukrainian watercolorists Andrej Gerasimyuk and Vitaly Dets. This course is a unique opportunity to learn from two of the world's top watercolorists, who have combined their 30 years of experience to create a tutorial that will teach you how to paint a poppy field in just 3 steps. With this course, you will learn different techniques such as wet-in-wet, dry, splattering, and masking, and you will also get a short history of the authors' travels to France to find the best views for the book. Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity to learn from the best! ▼▲

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Free

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Udemy

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Language:

English

Start Date:

2018-02-08

Course Overview

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Updated in [July 17th, 2023]

3-steps lesson teaches you how to create a realistic watercolor landscape within 2 hours using professional techniques

What you'll learn:

After easy 3-steps lesson you will be able to create your own watercolor landscape. 1. Consequence of applying watercolor techniques. 2. Which paints to mix for natural colors 3. How to correct any mistakes and make your painting vibrant.

Learn professional watercolor techniques easy and fast!

This video course“Watercolor trip to France: Poppy field” is a step-by-step tutorial made by Ukrainian watercolorists: Andrej Gerasimyuk (ranked in TOP20 world’s watercolorists) and Vitaly Dets (finalist TOYP 2014).The tutorial shows how just in a 3steps you can learn painting poppy fieldwith watercolor. The authors share their expertise and secrets of watercolor techniques in the form of step-by-step interactive lessons. Video-course includes different techniques:wet-in-wet, dry, splattering, masking etc. It is one of 16 lessons extracted from the book "Watercolor trip to Italy". So if you have the book, you can paint directly in it.

!This master-class from the Andrej Gerasimyuk appears in internet for the first time. All his 30 years experience in watercolor painting will be used for creating this course!

Shortly about structure:

1. You make draftdrawing on watercolor paper. Sketch is attached to the lection.

2. Applying mask.Making first layer wet-in-wet. Checking this step.

3. Taking out the mask. Painting house and the field.Checking this step.

4. Finishing all details.Checking this step.

Short history.

Before creating a book and a video-course, artists traveled together several times to get the best authentic views from France. They properly selected most expressive locations to include in the book. Then, they painted more than 50 watercolors and among them, they have chosen the most suitable for a tutorial. Carefully prepared instructions have been included in the last version of the book.

About authors:

Andrej Gerasimyuk (born in 1970) – famous Ukrainian watercolor painter, which is ranked in the world’s TOP20 according to Kuzema ranking. He is several times finalist in the competition of the Artist’s Magazine in 2008 and 2009 and finalist in the XXI Century Watercolor Open Competition organized by the Royal Watercolor Society etc. In TOP100 among 16000 participants. He was also the artist of the month in the USA.

Vitali Dets (born in 1981) – Ukrainian artist, who invented his own method to learn painting within one day. He is the first to have started it in Ukraine. Since 2005, more than 5000 amateur artists created their own paintings within one day in his studio. Vitali implemented his method in the book “Watercolor trip to Italy” to simplify learning.

Course Syllabus

Necessary materials to start the course

Lesson1: Poppy field. Step-by-step tutorial

Pros & Cons

Pros Cons

The course provides a book and kit, which users find fantastic as it helps bring the painting to life and makes it easy to follow.
The course offers plenty of instruction from beginning to end, allowing users to create a lovely watercolor painting quickly. Users appreciate the opportunity to dive in and create their own artwork.

Some users, particularly beginners, feel the need to learn more about specific techniques such as the angle of the sun causing shadows, the wetness of the mix with water and color, brush size, and the placement of masking fluid. They would like more detailed instructions on these aspects.
Although the video clearly illustrates the steps to create the painting and the instructor is knowledgeable and easy to understand, some users would appreciate more information on the progression of steps and techniques to build the image. They desire more guidance on how to utilize these techniques to create their own art.