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[BIG] Ships and Piers with Ludmila Popova

Teacher: Ludmila Popova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 3+ hours

Details:

  • BIG is a course format with large, detailed paintings. We spend 3–5 hours on each painting.
  • Paint 5 big paintings featuring water transport in sea and river scenes
  • Learn how to paint the structure of boats, motorboats, and yachts in watercolor

[BIG] Winter Sea course

Teacher: Natalia Nesterova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 3+ hours

Details:

  • BIG is a course format with large, detailed watercolor paintings. Each artwork takes us about 3–5 hours to paint.
  • Create 6 winter seascapes, each with a different mood or atmosphere
  • 6–12 studies from the course can totally turn into finished pieces on their own
  • Learn the key principles and techniques of composition, and try an independent project

Everyone paints summer seas. Try a winter one — when sky merges with water, wind drives the foam, and there's not a soul on the beach. That's where real painting lives.

Light and Space

Teacher: Ilya Ibryaev
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Paint 10 landscapes using the "alla prima" technique - with full pigment strength in one go.
  • Masterb the unique techniques of creating the play of light in space.
  • Learn to be bold in your work and use associative solutions.

Ibryaev teaches not precision, but courage. One take, full pigment strength — and light you can feel.

Countryside Landscapes in Watercolor

Teacher: Igor Khaikov
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • You'll paint 11 countryside landscapes
  • Learn to combine working on dry and wet paper
  • Depict nature in different seasons

Rural charm in every season. For those who know that the most beautiful landscapes begin beyond the city limits.

Sea Trip

Teacher: Natalia Nesterova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • 11 impressive subjects
  • Learn the author's techniques for watercolor painting
  • Learn how to draw styles, storms, bays, islands
  • The access to the course is permanent

You'll paint a storm — and feel like you got soaked. Paint a calm sea — and hear the silence. The ocean is closer than you think.

Flowers and Bouquets

Teacher: Elena Vavilina
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Paint 12 magical flower compositions in watercolor that look very modern and interior.
  • Master different techniques: botanical - elaborating each petal, "from the stain" - working from the general to the specific
  • Learn how to draw stylized flowers with beautiful gradient washes

When your watercolor flowers look more alive than the bouquet on the windowsill — the course worked.

Watercolor Journey

Teacher: Julia Zilbert
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Paint 8 watercolor pieces with city scenes from different countries
  • Get the hang of soft blends and that moist air effect: fog, haze, clouds, rainy surfaces, reflections on water and wet asphalt
  • Get how to build up depth and layers using tone, working with distant silhouettes, soft gradients, and guiding the viewer's attention

Fog, haze, rain, and reflections on wet asphalt — cities of different countries through watercolor wetness. A journey that needs no passport.

Seasons with Ilya Ibryaev

Teacher: Ilya Ibryaev
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • 10 watercolor landscapes in the «alla prima» technique
  • You'll learn how to capture a variety of shades and moods on paper
  • Learn to depict different seasons both in urban settings and in nature

In January this park is silent. In July — it's so loud you can hear it from the paper. Ibryaev paints not the trees, but what's between them — air, light, and the season.

Light in Urban Watercolors

Teacher: Igor Khaikov
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Paint 8 cityscapes
  • Master the tricks for capturing mood and light
  • Learn how to use watercolor with confidence to create expressive, vibrant paintings

A course after which you'll notice light in every alleyway — and wish you had a brush nearby.

Seascapes in Watercolor

Teacher: Natalia Nesterova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 3 hours or more

Details:

  • BIG is a format with long and detailed paintings. We are drawing each picture for 3-5 hours;
  • 6 large seascapes using a total of 6 paints;
  • Advanced techniques and secrets from Natalia Nesterova.

Six colors — and six large seascapes. Advanced techniques for those ready for a serious dive into watercolor and the ocean at the same time.

Minimalist Landscapes in Watercolor

Teacher: Alexandra Podushkina
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • 12 meditative paintings in monochrome style
  • Mysterious Siberian forests, taiga swamps, the reflection of a misty sky in silvery water, and so much more mysterious and beautiful in this course!
  • Become an expert in monochrome and tonalities, capturing the essence of the subject.

Siberian forests in shades of fog. Not a single bright color — and not a single boring scene. Monochrome you can't look away from.

Light 2.0: The Transformation of Light

Teacher: Ilya Ibryaev
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Step by step, discover the power of light in watercolor
  • Become a pro at capturing light in all its forms
  • Paint 16 different subjects using the alla-prima technique: still lifes, landscapes, and portraits

The first course taught you to notice light. This one — to command it. Ibryaev returns and takes on portraits, still lifes, and everything that glows.

[BIG] Coastal Italy

Teacher: Julia Zilbert
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 3 hours or more

Details:

  • BIG is a course format with long, detailed paintings. We spend 3-5 hours on each piece.
  • paint 6 large-scale paintings
  • learn how to simplify complex scenes, create harmonious compositions on large formats, and pick the right color palette for bright architecture and night landscapes

By day — white walls that make you squint. By night — lights you don't want to leave. Italy on a large sheet, as Italy deserves.

Airy Landscapes

Teacher: Alena Kruglova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • paint 10 unique landscapes filled with air and lightness
  • learn how to create stunning artworks using a limited palette
  • create paintings using the alla prima technique

The fewer colors — the more air. A course about saying more with three colors than with thirty.

Urban Momentswith Olga Ovtina

Teacher: Olga Ovtina
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • 10 urban scenes where the composition really sets the mood
  • Get the hang of the main watercolor techniques: different paint consistencies, blending, dry brush, paper texture, and working with light
  • Learn how to give your watercolor painting movement, rhythm, and atmosphere without overloading it with details

A city where you don't need to draw every brick. Two strokes — and the street already leads somewhere.

Vintage Watercolor

Teacher: Nina Orlova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Draw 12 nostalgic stories
  • Learn to see and convey the charm of simple things: old pots, a rusty lantern or apples in the sun
  • Create effects of rust, glass, tin, and other vintage textures.

A rusty lantern, old pots, and vintage sneakers — the beauty of things nobody needs anymore, except an artist. Learning to paint glass, tin, and rust.

Exotic Watercolor

Teacher: Margarita Astashova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • 15 colorful paintings
  • Master the skill of combining raw and dry techniques
  • Learn how to make translucent fills without "dry" uniform coloring
  • Understand how to achieve tangible forms and contrasts.
  • Access to the course indefinitely

Paradise birds, tropical fruits, and amazing animals. For those who need at least a painted tropical island in winter.

Watercolor Animalistics

Teacher: Anna Parshenko
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Draw 12 realistic pictures of wild animals.
  • Learn to convey the character and emotions of living beings.
  • Understand how to develop creative thinking.

You'll paint a tiger — and it will look at you as if you should apologize. Twelve animals with character that gives you goosebumps.

Japanese sumi-e painting

Teacher: Alexandra Vasilieva
Materials: mascara, mineral paints
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • You'll paint 8 elegant flowers using authentic Eastern materials
  • A full dive into the world of Japanese painting: techniques, symbolism, Eastern aesthetics, and philosophy
  • Learn how to work with ink and mineral paints: creating a gradient from three shades, brush stroke speed, using a dry brush, and much more

Ink, mineral paints, and Eastern philosophy. Eight elegant flowers — and you're already a little bit Japanese artist. Brush speed matters.

Realistic Botany in Watercolor PRO

Teacher: Margarita Astashova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • 25 lessons;
  • painting from flowers: botanical sketches, curvy buds, velvet and smooth petals, dewdrops and multicolored insects;
  • detailed set of lessons for those who want to master the secrets of watercolor realism in the genre of botanical illustration.
  • The access to the course is permanent

We paint from live flowers, not photographs. Carnations, irises, roses — and a Hercules beetle for dessert.

Realistic Botany in Watercolor

Teacher: Margarita Astashova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • 11 graphic breakdowns of color structure
  • Create 5 realistic paintings of varying levels of difficulty
  • Go through a set of 20 developmental exercises
  • "Put your hand" and develop the skill of confident brushwork.

A starter course for those who can't tell a pistil from a stamen yet, but already want to paint daisies like postcards from a botanical garden.

[BIG] Large Floral Compositions

Teacher: Elena Vavilina
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 3 hours or more

Details:

  • BIG is a course format with long and detailed paintings. We spend 3-5 hours on each painting
  • 5 large floral compositions
  • Learn how to come up with striking compositions and find exquisite combinations of objects

Peonies that won't fit in a vase. Roses that won't fit on the page. And nearby — a vintage scooter or a porcelain teapot. Elena turns these into stories you want to hang on your wall.

Watercolor Animals

Teacher: Olga Manzhosova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • 21 lessons;
  • Draw 13 bright representatives of the animal world. From cute creatures to dangerous predators, from conquerors of the sky to masters of the ocean depths
  • Train in silhouettes and close-ups, backgrounds and lighting, fabrics and textures
  • The access to the course is permanent

You'll start with a simple silhouette — and finish with a predator whose eyes gleam. Wildlife art that will make even your cat look at you with respect.

Sunny Holidays

Teacher: Elena Vlasova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • 11 bright, impressive stories.
  • We will learn to depict sunlight in different environments: near water, in parks, in nature, in different states of the sky and clouds, sun and fog.
  • Learn to work on raw paper to create paintings with subjects in various natural states.

A course about sunlight — on water, in parks, through clouds and fog. After this, you'll catch sunsets with a brush, not a phone.

[BIG] Pets in Pencil

Teacher: Svetlana Vrublevskaya
Materials: pencil
Time per painting: 3 hours or more

Details:

  • BIG is a course format with long, detailed drawings. We spend 3-5 hours on each drawing
  • Draw 5 pets in a realistic style
  • Master step-by-step layering to create depth and textures using just a pencil, brushes, sponges, and even cotton pads

Your cat will finally sit still — at least on paper. Pencil, sponge, cotton pad — and a portrait that makes you want to purr.

Watercolor Animal Art: Taiga

Teacher: Anna Parshenko
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Paint 8 portraits of taiga animals
  • Master the multilayer watercolor technique
  • Learn how to paint animals expressively

Eight portraits of taiga animals — layered watercolor for those who love bears, foxes, and owls more than people.

Romance of a Port City

Teacher: Julia Zilbert
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Paint 11 vibrant pictures from the life of a port city;
  • Master and reinforce key watercolor techniques: "alla prima", wet-on-wet, granulation, and others;
  • Meet the artist from the sunny island of Crete!

The teacher lives in Crete and paints what she sees from her window. The best way to visit a port city — without buying a ticket.

Northern Landscapes in Watercolor

Teacher: Anna Mikhailova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Paint 10 watercolor landscapes – from Karelia to Svalbard
  • Find out how to make your watercolors look light and fresh
  • Get to try out different techniques to capture natural textures: from dry grass and old wood to snow, ice, and the northern lights

From Karelia to Svalbard — the lightness and freshness of northern watercolor. For those who find the south too bright.

To the Sun and Sea

Teacher: Elena Vlasova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 3 hours or more

Details:

  • BIG is a course format with large and detailed paintings. Each painting takes 3-5 hours to complete.
  • Full immersion into all the intricacies of watercolor painting, many hours of practice, and as a result – improvement of artistic skills.
  • 6 large sunny and sea-themed paintings of a southern city with many nuances and details.

A sunny southern city with all its nuances and details. For those who find one hour per painting too little, and want perfection too much.

Sunset and Sunrisein the Cityscape

Teacher: Olga Kabaeva
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • You'll paint 8 different architectural scenes
  • Learn how to work on both cotton paper and cellulose
  • Learn how to capture different types of lighting easily and beautifully

The same house at six in the morning — pink and sleepy. At eight in the evening — golden and tired. A course about how it's not the pencil that draws architecture, but light.

Watercolor Architecture

Teacher: Olga Kabaeva
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • You'll paint 10 cityscapes in watercolor.
  • Learn how to work with lighting in urban landscapes: capturing sunsets, daytime sun, artificial lighting, and much more.
  • Learn to simplify complex architecture while keeping its beauty and details.

Learn to paint buildings so the architect won't be offended and the viewer won't be bored. Simplification without losing beauty.

Petersburg Through the Years

Teacher: Vladimir Zarutsky
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Paint 12 landscapes: from retro Petersburg to the present day
  • Learn how to capture the unique features of architecture with watercolor
  • Learn how to express artistic ideas and visions

You found your grandmother's photo in the attic — the same embankment, the same lantern. Only the tram is different and the snow falls differently. You want to go back — even if only with a brush.

City and Countryside Watercolor Landscapes

Teacher: Alexey Kondratyev
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Paint 8 landscapes: from quiet village streets to cityscapes
  • Learn how to create harmonious landscapes by blending nature and architecture
  • Develop your own approach to watercolor — with accurate drawing, thoughtful values, and expressive painting

A course for those who can't choose between city and countryside — here we paint both. And find charm in each.

[BIG] Watercolor Botany in Detail

Teacher: Margarita Astashova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • [BIG] is a course format with long and detailed paintings. We spend 3-5 hours on each painting
  • Paint 5 detailed botanical illustrations
  • You'll master the key principles and step-by-step process of layered painting

Multilayered botanical painting with detail that makes you want to reach for a magnifying glass. For the patient and flower-obsessed.

[BIG] European Cities

Teacher: Vladimir Ivanov
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 3 hours or more

Details:

  • BIG is a course format with long, detailed paintings. We spend about 4-5 hours on each painting
  • You’ll create 5 realistic paintings with a European vibe, paying special attention to the details
  • You'll get the hang of the multilayer watercolor technique: you'll learn how to work both wet-on-wet and dry-on-dry to create expressive watercolors

Narrow streets and tile roofs — Europe you can miss without leaving home. We paint in more detail than we photograph.

Fashion illustration with markers

Teacher: Olga Kaznakova
Materials: markers
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • 14 drawings in fashion illustration style
  • Master from scratch the most "lively and dynamic" material - alcohol markers
  • Learn how to convey the textures of delicate lace, shimmering rhinestones, soft fur, flowing silk, and other materials

Lace, rhinestones, fur, silk — with markers on paper. Fashion as art, and vice versa.

Marker Impressions Sketchbook

Teacher: Anastasia Lemurka
Materials: markers
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Draw forest and meadow landscapes, the sea and the underwater world, botanical illustrations, and for dessert — some food illustrations
  • Master my unique technique for drawing with alcohol-based markers
  • Create your own sketchbook-journal from scratch: 11 realistic illustrations, titles and text, plus tons of tips and marker techniques

A personal sketchbook that in a year will be worth more than any photo album. Forest, sea, food — and your memories in markers.

At Grandmother's Village

Teacher: Nina Orlova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • You'll paint 10 atmospheric pieces from country life
  • You'll master the technique of smooth washes in watercolor
  • You'll capture a variety of textures and objects: antique metal, fragrant flowers, fresh vegetables, vintage dishes, wood, and glistening glass

A jar of jam, grandma's teapot, and apples in the sun. A course for those who miss the countryside — and want to paint that feeling.

Crimea in Watercolor

Teacher: Lyudmila Popova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • сapture your summer by the Black Sea and paint 8 watercolor pictures
  • learn how to paint water in different states using the wet-on-wet technique
  • learn how to compose and design natural landscapes

Summer by the Black Sea — water in different states and Crimean landscapes. Cheaper than a vacation and smells like watercolor, not barbecue.

Industrial Landscapes in Watercolor

Teacher: Roman Bayanov
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Create 12 landscapes with urban and architectural elements.
  • While working quickly, boldly, vividly, and with pleasure.

City, architecture, and industrial aesthetics — fast, bold, juicy, and fun. For those tired of flowers.

Watercolor Sketching: Nostalgia

Teacher: Ivan Kryukov
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • 16 paintings
  • 20 new watercolor effects
  • Motivation and secret techniques from Ivan Kryukov
  • Let's learn to enjoy the process of painting and create happiness inside with the help of special subjects and watercolor magic!

A watercolor time machine. We paint scenes that make you want to call your grandmother.

Watercolor Sketching: Taste of Life

Teacher: Ivan Kryukov
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • 19 lessons;
  • 16 bright watercolour sketches that will definitely make you smile and get you in a creative mood;
  • you will learn to rethink references, remove embarrassment, be creative and come up with bold creative solutions.

Ivan will teach you to paint baby turtles on the beach and birds with rowan berries as if you'd been doing it your whole life. The main technique of this course — stop being afraid of a blank page.

Fairy Tale Illustration

Teacher: Ivan Kryukov
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • 11 illustrations with fairy tale characters
  • A fresh take on familiar characters: Bogatyr, Koschei, Izbushka, Little Red Riding Hood, Teremok, Gorynych, and Lukomorye
  • New illustration techniques: anime, 3D, isometry, unconventional colors

A warrior in anime style, Koschei in 3D, and a dragon in isometry. Ivan Kryukov turns fairy tales into something unexpected.

Natural Moments

Teacher: Valeria Renne
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • You will draw 12 aerial summer sketches
  • Learn to work in mixed technique with watercolor, liner, and pencil
  • Learn to let the control go and draw more boldly

Watercolor, liner, pencil — and permission to draw imperfectly. A course for those who want to let go of control and stop being afraid of "ruining it."

Saint Petersburg and Venice

Teacher: Yuri Akopyants
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • The mystery of light and shadow in 8 urban landscapes of Venice and Saint Petersburg
  • Try your hand at impressionism
  • Get to know the «watercolor thinking» method

Two cities reflected in water and in each other. "Watercolor thinking" — when you think in spots and it turns into St. Petersburg.

[BIG] Realistic Animals in Pastel

Teacher: Anastasia Seraya
Materials: pastel
Time per painting: 3 hours or more

Details:

  • BIG is a course format with long and detailed paintings. We spend 3-5 hours on each painting.
  • Draw 6 animals in realism style on different types of pastel paper
  • Learn to create different textures with pastels: fur, skin, feathers

Fur, skin, feathers — in pastel on different types of paper. Realism so convincing that the cat in the painting might start purring.

Dry Pastel PRO

Teacher: Anastasia Seraya
Materials: dry pastel
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • 12 paintings that I chose in a way that any beginner could repeat them if desired;
  • cheerful and fully comprehensible theoretical basis, which we immediately start practicing;
  • work in different directions: animation, landscape, fashion, still life.
  • The access to the course is permanent

Pastel is when paint becomes dust, and dust becomes art. Wildlife, landscapes, still life, and fashion — all in one course.

Dry Pastel PRO: "In Harmony with Nature"

Teacher: Anastasia Seraya
Materials: dry pastel
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Paint 12 realistic paintings
  • Learn to draw with dry pastels and pastel pencils
  • Learn how to render textures in a believable way
  • Understand how to achieve realism in a painting
  • Access to the course indefinitely

Advanced level: landscapes, still lifes, and textured animals. A course for those who've already befriended pastel and want the hedgehog in the painting to actually look prickly.

Pencil Mood

Teacher: Maria Orlova
Materials: pencil, liner
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Pencil graphics in 17 workshop sketches;
  • Learning the important basics to draw in a realistic manner.

One pencil, one liner, and nineteen reasons to realize that color is an optional luxury.

Watercolor Stories

Teacher: Irina Petrovskaya
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • 13 atmospheric paintings
  • Learn the author's technique of drawing with a syringe
  • Learn how to draw stories from a simple life
  • Access to the course indefinitely

An old suitcase, hanging laundry, a flower in a vase — Irina sees art in simple things. And paints them with a syringe. Yes, a syringe.

[BIG] 4 Summer Sea Stories

Teacher: Natalia Nesterova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 3 hours or more

Details:

  • BIG is a course format with long and detailed paintings. We paint each picture for 4-6 hours
  • We're painting summer sea landscapes using a multilayer watercolor technique.
  • We'll learn how to capture the beauty of the water's surface, depict the dynamics of water, realistic reflections, azure shores, and stormy conditions

Four paintings — four states of the sea. From azure calm to a storm that makes you want to step back from the easel.

Fairy Tale Watercolor Calendar

Teacher: Tatyana Yashma
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Draw 12 magical illustrations in watercolor
  • Learn to draw fairy tale characters easily and simply
  • Master the unique techniques for creating beautiful watercolor washes and playing with color

January — with a dragon, July — with a mermaid. A calendar you'll look forward to flipping, not dread.

Sea, Mountains, Watercolor

Teacher: Svetlana Yumatova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Paint 7 airy landscapes using the «Alla Prima» technique!
  • Quick sketching technique that makes the paint more obedient in your hands!

One painting — one breath. Before you can doubt yourself, the mountain is already standing and the wave is already running. Watercolor for the decisive.

T-shirt Painting

Teacher: Maria Snegireva
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Learn to create extraordinary T-shirts from scratch
  • 5 techniques: watercolor, splatter, ice printing, bleach printing, and acrylic painting.
  • By the end of the course, you'll have 6 unique T-shirts

Five techniques, six t-shirts, zero boredom. Ice, bleach, acrylic — and your wardrobe will never be the same.

Neurographics Complete Course

Teacher: Ekaterina Sorokina
Materials: colored pencils
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Working with the subconscious through drawing
  • 14 techniques of neurographics for working with dreams and desires
  • Discovering your purpose, fulfilling desires, restoring energy, working on financial wishes, achieving goals, removing psychological barriers, and much more

Drawing as therapy — pencil to the subconscious. Dreams, desires, and breaking through limits. No canvas needed, but results guaranteed.

Mountains in Watercolor

Teacher: Elena Vlasova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • 4 watercolor landscapes with mountains
  • Find out how a mountain and mountain ranges are “built,” and you’ll learn some easy tricks to show their volume
  • Learn how to capture the different vibes of mountain landscapes, bring out the story, the unique mood, and the atmosphere of mountains from all over the world

From the Altai to the Himalayas — learning to convey the volume and unique character of mountains. For those who can't travel to the mountains but really want to.

Digital Illustrationfrom Scratch

Teacher: Ekaterina Sinyukhina
Materials: digital illustrations
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • The course is in Procreate, but you can also follow along in other programs and on Android tablets
  • Draw 9 digital illustrations: fruit, landscapes, portraits of people, and other subjects
  • Master working with effects and animation

Procreate, effects, and animation — drawing without paper, paints, or mess on the desk. Works on Android too.

Winter Impressions in Watercolor

Teacher: Nina Orlova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • This course is all about winter impressions
  • We’ll be using the whole range of watercolor techniques: working wet-on-wet, closed transparent washes, creating textures, and playing around with salt effects.
  • Special attention to composition

The full arsenal of watercolor techniques — wet-on-wet, salt, glazing — in winter scenery. For those who like winter at least on paper.

Botany and Fairy Tale Characters

Teacher: Elizaveta Volgina
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • 7 magical watercolor illustrations inspired by Slavic culture
  • Botany with elements of national fairy tale style
  • Wet-on-wet and dry brush techniques, soft gradients, and tiny brush hatching

Botany meets Slavic fairy tales — flowers with character, soft gradients, and miniature brush strokes. For those who believe every flower has a soul.

Goose Illustrations

Teacher: Elena Vavilina
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • 4 watercolor artworks featuring fairy-tale geese
  • you’ll find out how to come up with an illustration and put it together using different references
  • you’ll learn how to show different personalities for goose-characters, their unique traits and quirks

Four geese — and each with its own opinion. A course about inventing a character, not copying one.

Forest Walks with Anastasia Besedina

Teacher: Anastasia Besedina
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Paint 9 amazing nature-inspired pictures
  • Learn how to capture the feeling of the forest with watercolor
  • Learn how to paint animals and birds

Urban Contrasts in Watercolor

Teacher: Yulia Kalashnikova
Materials: watercolor
Time per painting: 1-2 hours

Details:

  • Paint 8 vibrant urban landscapes
  • Learn how to capture the vibe of each season — the chill of a winter morning or the warmth of a summer day
  • Learn how to balance details and simplification so your paintings feel alive

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Ilya Ibryaev
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Natalia Nesterova
Natalia Nesterova
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Ivan Kryukov
Ivan Kryukov
Watercolor sketching, illustration, fairy tale art
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Margarita Astashova
Margarita Astashova
Realistic botanical illustration, watercolor botany
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Elena Vavilina
Elena Vavilina
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Olga Kabaeva
Olga Kabaeva
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Anastasia Seraya
Anastasia Seraya
Dry pastel, realistic animal painting, still life
3 courses
Nina Orlova
Nina Orlova
Watercolor painting, vintage style, countryside landscapes
3 courses
Julia Zilbert
Julia Zilbert
Watercolor cityscapes, Italian coastal scenes, port landscapes
3 courses
Elena Vlasova
Elena Vlasova
Watercolor landscapes, plein-air painting, mountains
2 courses

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