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Perspective - Painting Cityscapes and Urban Landscapes with Watercolours

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Overview

Painting a cityscape or urban landscape incorporating all the rules of perspective and elements in it can be quite challenging. Welcome to Class 2 of the cityscapes and urban landscape series.

I will be teaching you right from where to get your reference images to how to compose your paintings from that reference image as well as the rules of composition which will help you compose your own painting from scratch.

In this class I will be sharing with you step by step all the necessary techniques, to carefully prepare the pencil drawing for your sketch, applying both linear and aerial perspective to your paintings, and how to use the wet on wet and wet on dry techniques to paint the different elements in your cityscape. We will also learn how to effectively use different colours to paint shadows and reflections with a clear contrast and texture in our paintings.

We are going to spend a night and day in New York, paint two beautiful city streets and then head over to Prague to hop onto the night tram amidst the gigantic architectural buildings. We will also explore the trams in Lisbon and the Eiffel tower in Paris.

Are you ready for an exciting painting journey and creating unique cityscape masterpieces? Then join me now and let us travel to these places together.

Syllabus

  • Welcome to the Class
  • About this Class
  • Art Supplies
  • Taping the Paper
  • Angle of Board
  • Setting Up Your Board
  • Finding Reference Pictures
  • Plein Air vs Photo
  • Rule of Thirds
  • Golden Rule of Composition
  • New York Day - Sketching
  • New York Day - Layer I
  • New York Day - Layer II
  • New York Day - Layer III
  • New York Day - Details
  • New York Night - Sketching
  • New York Night - Masking Fluid
  • New York Night - Layer I
  • New York Night - Layer II
  • New York Night - Layer III
  • New York Night - Details
  • Prague - Sketching
  • Prague - Part I
  • Prague - Part II
  • Prague - Part III
  • Prague - Final Layer & Details
  • Lisbon Tram - Sketching
  • Lisbon Tram - Layer I
  • Lisbon Tram - Layer II
  • Lisbon Tram - Layer III
  • Lisbon Tram - Details
  • Paris - Sketching
  • Paris - Layer I
  • Paris - Layer II
  • Paris - Layer III
  • Paris -Details
  • Night City - Sketching
  • Night City - Layer I
  • Night City - Layer II
  • Night City - Layer III
  • Night City - Details

Taught by

Geethu Chandramohan

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