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 am absolutely in love with Julia's way of painting,, excellent lesson incredibly informative ad extremely enjoyable and very easy to follow. Hope to become as good as she is with my boats and water! There are many courses out there and I have followed many, but noone has been so helpful and useful both for technique and instructions provided.





Amazing my second course by Julia and I've learned so much. She is so talented it is really generous that she is sharing her skills and how she sees water, thank you!





I really loved it! Soooo many details, soo beautiful and useful! The only part where I wish the process was not cut is when Julia paints the waves, as a fundamental step and I have the feeling in some parts there were tiny little details missing of how she did it. But overall I have loved it and I am looking forward to trying it over and over again!





I really liked how Julia explained her painting - it was very useful for my own painting, I am very happy with it. Thank you very much.





I really like what you do, draw, paint and so on and your enthusiasm Thank you and see you soon @triliamn















Sea an Sails workshop by @juliabarminova was amazing. She is one of the best artists for painting water, ofcourse all her other paintings are also equally exceptional. Always wanted to learn from her. Thank you for conducting the workshop in English.Really enjoyed learning from her and painting with her during the workshop. Wish to paint with her in person someday. A big thank you to @lectoroom.eng for creating this efficient platform. Very nicely organised. Thanks a lot for the whole team










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





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.