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Seascape Painting Marathonwith Lyudmila Popova

5 days of painting the sea in watercolor: from dramatic cliffs to sunny beaches

Material: watercolor

Number of paintings: 5

Course duration: 10 hours

Access: lifetime

 

What will you paint during the marathon

Day 1

sail rock

We'll learn how to:

  • Stone and rock textures
  • Avoiding the light areas
  • The texture of waves and foam
Day 2

Before the storm

We'll learn how to:

  • Working with a stormy sky
  • Fluffy clouds and clouds dripping down
  • Water texture and creating atmosphere
Day 3

General’s Beaches

We'll learn how to:

  • Plan your workflow
  • Crop, arrange, and add details to your composition
  • Textures and volume of the rocks in the background and foreground
  • To understand the difference between the background and the foreground
  • Create the wave foam by working around the layers of paint
  • Drawing and the texture of sea foam
Day 4

Jasper Beach

We'll learn how to:

  • Working with layers
  • Rock textures, lighting, volume, and shadows
  • Water texture, foamy surf
  • Pebble texture on the beach, reflections of the rocks
Day 5

Golden Beach

We'll learn how to:

  • Plan and simplify your workflow
  • Simplify the buildings in the background, figure out what’s most important and what’s secondary in your landscape
  • Create foam and waves by painting around them—the white of the paper does the work for us
  • Shadows, light, and the pattern of the foam
  • Wet rocks and sunny sand in the foreground
 

Join all three broadcasts to get access to unlock an extra bonus lesson, «Pier at Sunset»

We'll learn how to:

  • Enhance the feeling of a sunset sky
  • Fluffy, soft clouds
  • Easy dock perspective, texture, and the rhythms of the railings
  • The texture of the waves and reflections
  • How to add seagulls to the sky
 

The marathon is hosted
by Lyudmila Popova

  • Professional artist, designer, illustrator, digital illustrator
  • Member of the Union of Artists of Russia and the Union of Watercolorists of Russia, Member of the International Watercolor Society (IWS)
  • Since 2020, she’s been actively taking part in exhibitions. She’s a participant and prize-winner at lots of regional and international exhibitions and plein airs

Our artists are taking part in the marathon

Natalia Nesterova

Margarita Astashova

Igor Khaikov

Anna Parshenko

Nina Orlova

Julia Zilbert

Ivan Kryukov

Valeria Renne

Watercolor artworks by Lyudmila

Artworks by marathon participants

What materials are we going to use for painting

  • Paper A3-A4: SandersWaterford 300 g, medium grain, 100% cotton
  • Pencil 2B
  • Kneaded eraser
  • Plastic palette
  • Paints
    • Yellow Gansa (Pinax);
    • Yellow Ochre (Pinax);
    • Ferric Oxide Red (Nevskaya Palette);
    • Carmine;
    • Burnt Umber;
    • Phthalo Blue (Pinax);
    • Phthalo Green (Pinax);
    • May Green (Nevskaya Palette);
    • Horizon Blue (Mijello) or (Turquoise from Nevskaya Palette);
    • Dark Ultramarine (Nevskaya Palette);
    • Titanium White (Pinax or Nevskaya Palette).
  • 2 water containers
  • White paper napkins
  • Brushes
    • Filbert (Goza);
    • Calligraphy for washes;
    • Malahov's Eraser Brush;
    • Synthetic round (larger and smaller);
    • Flat brush (squirrel imitation);
    • Synthetic (Rublev series aqua);
    • Liner (synthetic Rublev series aqua).

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  • Number of marathons: 42
  • Number of paintings: 178
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  • 3 video lessons of the marathon;
  • bonus lesson «Pier at Sunset» for attentive viewers;
  • lifetime access.
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