About
English and Spanish subtitles are available
From a simple lantern element to a complex building facade
with contrasting sunlight.
Architectural painting relies on two skills: academic drawing and watercolor technique.
In the course you will be able to deal consistently with drawing and watercolor right from the architectural details. From exercises to final drawings, everything will be full of life: these are not plaster staging, but real capitals touched by time, textures of dried plaster from city streets, lanterns, not cubes, cones and pyramids.
Classical academic drawing for architectural forms is exactly the foundation that gives the aquarelle artist the confidence to build city streets, house facades, architectural elements, ships, yachts, bicycles.
After drawing, we will add watercolor techniques to our instruction: the proper use of color to create, for example, sunlight, quick sketch subjects, and slow studio work
What will we study
Working with watercolor when depicting urban landscapes and architectural elements is composed of several skills:
- Finding subjects in reality
- Composition and arrangement of an object on a sheet of paper
- Finding proportions and dimensions
- Linear and aerial perspective
- Working with shading: seeing and conveying volume
- Illustration of different types of light: diffuse and contrast sunlight
- Features of watercolor technique
- Coloristics and chromatics
- Classical step by step work: from the general to the particular and from light to dark
We'll break down all these points in detail in the context of academic rules and learn how to break them in order to master watercolor for depicting architecture once and for all.
Program
Reviews




I enjoyed very much to see Julia do dry on wet to create the sea, very helpful.





Really like learning Julia's technique, would have love to be able to see or download the reference photo





It was the first time that I have an WS online with Lectoroom and is was Excellent. Hope you make many more:





I really loved the lesson, have learned more from Julia Barminova. Thank you. I will practice more to improve.





I loved the course, the explanations were clear and concise, video quality was very good. Thank you very much Julia for sharing your skills and knowledge.





It was my First experience with lecto room, was so happy with my experience. Special thanks for sorting me out of finding the course and the recording. Thank you so much





Thanks again for a great opportunity to learn your approach. Fluent english, a lot of tips and trics,.... watching you paint is very interesting! Thanks Julia, Tomas





she explained very well her techniques, and I just love her work. I really like her workshop.










The course was very good and very intense. I did not know we had to work simultaneously with Julia so I got behind from the start and did not finish in time to upload for review. However I had some very nice hours afterwards following the course on replay and painting the hydrangeas. I love the way it is filmed so that you can follow the actual painting process live - that is very informative and there are lots of big discoveries in watching how Julia works. Great course.




It was wonderful work shop.. I was waiting for Julia’s English speaking workshop and was happy to attend.. I tried once painting after the workshop and hope I will improve in painting waves .. thank you




Who is it suitable for
- You work in watercolor, but feel you lack the basic rules of perspective and finding proportions.
- Ever dropped out of academic drawing because you got bored.
- Would like to master classical pencil shading and feel the difference between linear and light-toned drawing.
- Dream to understand such concepts as linear perspective, aerial perspective, tone, flare, penumbra, reflex, falling shadow, own shadow and so on.
- You want to know all secrets how to create realistic architecture in watercolor filled with sunlight on a white sheet of paper.
The course structure will change smoothly from simple to complicated in order to put your hand in the most harmonious way, to develop the sense of rhythm and generally understand the basis of academic drawing as applied to watercolor painting.