Sunny landscapes in watercolor. Video lesson on painting with watercolors "Sunny Landscape"

Japanese artist Abe Toshiyuki creates stunning watercolors filled with a special inner light. Perhaps he can be called a real singer of nature, because his track record is almost exclusively landscapes.

The Japanese have always shown deep love and respect for nature. This can be clearly seen in painting. Paintings by Japanese masters often reflect the fragility and beauty of the world around us. To a large extent, this also applies to Abe Toshiyuki’s realistic landscapes. “In my works I focus on simple things, I try to reflect all their inherent nuances,” says the artist.

Toshiyuki says that when creating another watercolor, he is very careful in choosing the nature. “I avoid painting too hackneyed landscapes,” explains the artist, “so as not to give viewers a feeling of deja vu. It’s important to me that art resonates deeply in people’s souls and touches them emotionally.”

Abe was born in Japan in 1959. Studied art in National University, and then devoted about twenty years of his life to teaching. It was only in 2008 that Toshiyuki gave up his previous profession to take up painting in earnest.

“I was ambitious, I always wanted to become an artist,” Toshiyuki shares, “that’s why I left teaching, focusing on painting. Today I work a lot, I have several personal exhibitions in Japan, and for my work I have repeatedly received prestigious awards.”

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Video lesson in watercolor painting "Sunny landscape. Seabed." Artist-teacher: Yulia Pashkova Yulia is a watercolor artist who creates incredible light and light landscapes in watercolors. I've been drawing since childhood, I tried it various techniques and genres, but most of all I fell in love with watercolor. The workplace of a watercolor artist is a small laboratory. He never tires of experimenting with paint, paper, water, light, color, composition, so that there is life in the picture. She loves to learn and share knowledge, believes that in watercolor there are no rules that cannot be broken :) In this lesson, Julia invites you to soak up the sun and paint a picture with the azure sea and learn how to draw clear water and a beautiful seabed! You will learn ✔ To work with a photo reference, choose the right color and tone. ✔ Basics of the raw technique, working in several layers ✔ Maintain a balance between working in spots and detailing objects ✔ Use masking fluid and a craft knife when depicting waves and highlights ✔ Depict the surface of the seabed in clear water ✔ Correct mistakes or eliminate defects, continuing to remain within the framework of the raw techniques ✔ Convey the atmosphere and mood in your works in watercolor without detailed detailing due to watercolor techniques and light accents. You will learn ✔ How to paint with watercolor ✔ How to select colors for a watercolor painting ✔ How to use masking fluid and white ✔ What is the wet-on-wet technique in watercolor ✔ How to paint a landscape with watercolor ✔ How to paint mountains and sea with watercolor ✔ How to paint the sky with watercolor ✔ How to draw clear water and the seabed. The result of the video lesson will be a sunny seascape! Lesson duration Video lesson duration: 2 hours 07 minutes Art materials For a comfortable learning experience, make sure you have the following: art materials: ✔ WATERCOLORS Watercolor “White Nights” from the Nevskaya Palitra plant or any other manufacturer of the following colors: - Neapolitan yellow (Julia used Sennelier series 1, 566, but it is almost similar to the same color in the watercolor “White Nights”) - Cadmium light yellow (Julia used Sennelier series 1, 529, but it is almost similar to the same color in the “White Nights” watercolor) - Indanthrene blue - Red ocher - Mars brown - Sepia - Quinacridone lilac - Olive - Chromium oxide - Emerald green - Azure - blue - Indigo ✔ BRUSHES - squirrel brush, round, with a sharp tip No. 8-10 (replacement: squirrel mix or imitation squirrel) - squirrel brush, round, No. 5 (replacement: squirrel mix or imitation squirrel, round, No. 3- 5) - squirrel brush, round, No. 1 (replacement: squirrel mix or imitation squirrel, or kolinsky, round, No. 0-2) - squirrel brush, round, No. 2 (replacement: squirrel mix or imitation squirrel, or kolinsky, round No. 0-2) - flute goat brush No. 50 for wetting the sheet (replacement: fluetz, No. 40-60) - a thin brush that you don’t mind spoiling, for applying masking fluid ✔ PAPER FOR WATERCOLORS, A4 FORMAT You can use any cotton paper for watercolor, approximately the same size as A4. For beginners, it is not recommended to take a larger format. Density not less than 250 g. Required for final work, 1 sheet. In the lesson, Julia uses Saunders Waterford paper, Fin, 300 g, 100% cotton. You will also need a sheet of A5 paper, similar in characteristics to the paper for the final work - to perform preliminary exercises. ✔ MASKING LIQUID ✔ TOOTHPICKS (for applying masking liquid) ✔ WHITE GOUACHE ✔ STATIONERY KNIFE ✔ TABLET ✔ PAPER TAPE ✔ PENCIL AND ERASER ✔ GLASS OF WATER ✔ RAG OR PAPER NEW TOWEL ✔ PALETTE OR WHITE PLATE Level of training Advanced. The lesson will be of interest to students with advanced creative skills. Do you want to learn how to paint with watercolors? It's easy with us! Have great fun and learn to draw from masters of their craft!

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Dear readers, today I have an article on my blog for our spiritual fulfillment. I often address this topic on my blog pages. I think that our health is at its best physical level always interconnected and directly depends on how we think, what we see around us, how we live, what we hear and feel. Each of us wants a harmonious state of mind, right? Personally, it always helps me feel mentally fulfilled. good books, music, painting and much more.

When I was designing our virtual magazine “Scents of Happiness,” I accidentally discovered the artist’s works, which are impossible to pass by. It was very tempting to make a magazine cover using material from the artist's floral compositions. But the magazine should be harmonious and not disturb the overall style, so I abandoned this idea. But I am writing a post about the artist himself and his amazing paintings with pleasure.

I started looking for information about him, and it turned out that there wasn’t much of it on the Internet. I will share with you my impressions and thoughts about the works of the Korean artist Shin Jong Sik. The main themes of the artist’s works: floral watercolors, still lifes and landscapes. There is such a lack of colors in our lives, I hope that the artist’s works will give us joyful moments and will not leave us indifferent.

In addition to being an artist and art professor, Shin Jong Sik has authored two books on expressive watercolor techniques. In these books, he talks about how to use salt, toothbrushes, adhesive tape, and plastic film to work on different surfaces, and shares his knowledge of watercolor techniques.

In his paintings, the artist conveys to us a mood that probably evokes a response in everyone’s heart. Soft, delicate details; in other works we see bold, dynamic brushstrokes. Let's look at the artist's work. Anyone who visits the blog regularly knows my love for poetry. Therefore, I decided to make my article in this form: the artist’s works and lines of poetry that resonate with me.

Floral sunny watercolor. Artist Shin Jong Sik.

The floral theme is presented in such an interesting way. I think that you will look at the work with pleasure. Poppies are simply enchanting...

Tango of scarlet moths -
Poppies dance in the wind,
The cereals applaud them
Malachite spikelets...
Scarlet silk outfit
In the dance he glows with bright passion...
Summer, I'm rooting for you -
There is a chord in the heart of happiness!…

Watercolor paintings by Korean artist Shin Jong Sik.

I want to present and comment on these paintings with consonant lines of poetry from Elena Baturina.

LET MY BOUQUET OF FLOWERS TELL ABOUT MY LOVE...

...I declare my love to you...with flowers!!!
Their watercolor-warm tenderness of tones...
Their aromas... Their shine... Charm...
And the quiet rustle of shimmering silks...

... Let the wings of poppies flare fiery passion
And the bright flame of enthusiastic love!!!
Magical! Sensual! Sparkling voluptuousness!
With blissful trepidation striving to encircle...

Let the orange-gold flowers shine
The priceless light of my fragile tenderness!!!
Enveloping you in a starry veil
And a web of sunlight!!!

The shine of the cornflower blue eyes of the flowers is pure! clear! –
Let him reflect my heavenly love!!!
With its divinely beautiful glow,
What intoxicates a sensitive soul with languor!!!

Forest stars with snow-white beauty
The crystalline quality of my bright feelings will be poured into you!!!
With its calmness, quite serene
And let them gently envelop your dreams with romance!!!

Let the ripe raspberries exude sweetness
The charm of my unearthly love!!!
Intoxicated by the honeyed bliss of dreams,
The fire of desire resonates in the blood!!!

... Let a bouquet of flowers tell about my love
In all the nuances of feelings and their halftones!!!
Let them sparkle with happiness in their eyes,
They delight and dream with bliss!!!

FLOWERS LIKE BUTTERFLIES.

Flowers are like butterflies and butterflies are flowers
Light wings fly over our lives,
And they fall, falling from a height,
When life seems hateful to them.

Flowers are like butterflies, and butterflies are like us
They are sad and cry, and in dreams and daydreams,
Tired of life's chaos,
They dream about frosts in winter.

Flowers like butterflies and their short lifespan
It makes us sad, we freeze, we fall asleep,
Winter is coming, sparkling soft snow,
Covers our wings with white down.

And we become white like angels,
Like moths, like white inflorescences,
And our thoughts and deeds are bright,
We write lines, lines about immortality.
Larisa Kuzminskaya.

Now let's see for ourselves creative process, how the artist himself adds depth to his paintings, how he, with the help of an ordinary brush, brings everything to life with a couple of touches. I found a video on the Internet. Let's see how everything happens in reality for the artist.

Watercolor. Video. Artist Shin Jong Sik

Still life in watercolor by artist Shin Jong Sik.

Let's look at some more of the artist's works. These will be still lifes. Look how much light, how much touchingness there is in the artist’s works.

My heartfelt gift for today will continue the theme of the artist. Shin Jong Sik. Let's see other works of the artist. Such a wonderful video musical accompaniment. Everything is so harmonious, touching, beautiful.

I wish everyone the same light in the soul, harmony, warmth, discover new colors of life.

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MASTER CLASS " Watercolor landscape»

Painting lesson in plein air classes for teachers and students of 3-4 grades of the Children's Art School on the topic: Sketches by the water.

Ponomareva Lyubov Innokentievna, teacher of MAOU DOD "ODSHI No. 3" of the Bratsk municipal district, Irkutsk region.
Master class for children's art school students in grades 3-4 (14-15 years old) and teachers.
Purpose: visual material, present.
Target: Familiarization with the basic methods and techniques of sequential execution of a landscape sketch in watercolor.
Tasks:
Improving skills in performing a landscape sketch in watercolor.
Development of creative abilities.
Fostering love and interest in depicting nature.
Materials: Watercolor (“St. Petersburg”, “Neva”, “Black River” or “Leningrad”); round brushes, squirrel No. 3, No. 6; watercolor paper, water jar, palette, pencil.

Hello, Dear colleagues and art lovers!
My master class is called “Watercolor Landscape”.
Landscapes are performed in plein air classes, and have great importance, since they contribute to visual and practical study laws light-air perspective, acquiring new knowledge in mastering watercolor techniques and the methodological sequence of work.
We choose a landscape motif with water and learn to paint a reflection.
There are two main watercolor techniques - glazing, or multi-layer painting, and “a la prima” - raw, as well as numerous combined techniques derived from them, aimed at revealing the effectiveness, multi-structure and imagery of the object.
We paint the landscape using the traditional technique of multi-layer painting. This technique involves sequential layering of paint layers after the previous layer has dried. Moreover, the first layers are transparent, the subsequent ones partially overlap them, gradually darken and saturate the color structure of the work. You can’t immediately write in dark and bright colors, because in the absence of white in watercolor, it is quite difficult to highlight something, and watercolor is a fresh, light, transparent material, derived from the word “aqua”, which means water. The color is composed with a lot of water, so a round, squirrel brush is used, which holds water well, and watercolor paper absorbs it well.

Stages of work.

1. The landscape motif is not very complex, so we perform the drawing directly with a brush, in a cold or warm color.

2. We fill the background sky with watercolors using brush No. 6 from top to bottom, using ultramarine and ocher for this, since on a sunny day there are warm shades in the blue of the sky.

3. Cover the bushes and river banks with light and warm green. It's better if green color will be obtained as a result of mixing. As you know, in a watercolor box you are offered not colors, but paints. To get a color, you need to mix at least two paints.

4. In this sketch, the dominant colors are blue, brown, ocher, and green. All subsequent stages of work are carried out on the dried previous layer. We determine the penumbra of the bush in the background.

5. We strengthen the penumbra of the background, taking into account that the lighting is from above, and the bushes are large hemispherical volumes.

6.Write the reflection in the water. This river has a very weak current, so the reflection is almost mirror-like. As a rule, it is always darker and warmer than real objects. We paint the reflection with vertical strokes, mirroring the shape of the bushes.

7. We paint water, with the sky reflected in it, in a darker color.

8. We enhance the foreground shore with brighter shades of green, without forgetting, however, about the transparency of the watercolor.

9. In the shade of bushes we look for shades of cool colors. We begin to paint spruce trees in the background. Compared to shrubs, they are much darker.

10. The spruces are dark, almost flat, since they are far away, we paint them with a thinner brush.

11. We enhance the shadow in the bushes and the water in the foreground, which gives a feeling of space.

12. Show the reflection of the fir trees in the water, enhance the contrast and color density in the reflection of the bushes.

13. We emphasize the branches in the bush, clarify the reflections of the foreground.

14. The sketch is ready. Success in creative work!

Paintings American artist Mike Kleimo It’s best to consider it when the weather outside leaves much to be desired, and it’s cloudy, cold, and short-term rains are expected. The fact is that the bright, multi-colored watercolors of this author are called sunny, emitting light and capable of creating good mood and positivity wherever it happens to be.

With his love for architecture and the cityscape, Maike Kleimo could pass for an architect, but no, he received a specialized education and a diploma from the California College Applied arts, and is professionally engaged in painting, giving preference to watercolor paints and a deliberately careless, easy drawing style.

The works of this author resemble postcards or stills from cartoons. The grotesque style and peculiar manner of painting indicate that the artist invented all these pictures and scenes, even if he painted them from life. This is one of those signs that makes it possible not to confuse the paintings of Maike Kleimo with the works of other watercolorists. Another sign can be considered a peculiar method of applying paint. The artist does this in several stages, in several layers, in order to preserve the lightness and translucency of the watercolor and at the same time obtain fairly bright, contrasting colors for which his paintings are famous. amazing paintings.

Artist, designer, illustrator, Maike Kleimo gives positivity, joy and good mood with his paintings. He sees the streets and squares of Seattle and San Miguel de Allende so wonderful. Other works of the watercolorist can be seen on his website.