Subject: Want to improve your landscapes sketches? Here's how ...
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Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 01:41:25 -0800 (PST)

Pen, Ink & Watercolor Fundamentals: Bring Landscapes to Life | View Online

Pen, Ink & Watercolor Fundamentals: Bring Landscapes to Life
Build confidence sketching outdoor scenes as you improve your results with essential skills. Join me, artist and teacher Shari Blaukopf, in my online Craftsy class, Sketching Landscapes in Pen, Ink & Watercolor. You'll learn to bring beautiful landscapes to life by breaking them down into manageable shapes, adding texture and detail, building value and more!

In this class, you'll hone skills that will make successful landscape sketches more accessible — whether you're in the field or working from a reference. You'll learn a
step–by–step process for simplifying your surroundings by sketching from big to small. Once you've finished this class, you'll be able to take your ordinary landscape sketches to extraordinary new heights.

We'll start by taking a look at the different types of sketchbooks that are available. Then, I'll give you an overview of a variety of tools you'll want to have on hand in the field: pencils, pens, brushes, palettes, paints and more.

In our next lesson, I'll give you tips for selecting the focus of your sketch and choosing how to orient your composition. As we work on a value sketch, you'll see how to establish the dark and lights for your composition.

Once you have this foundation in place, we'll move on to techniques for painting the sky in all its gorgeous glory. We'll talk about wet–on–wet paint application, mark–making techniques and tips for creating perspective. Whether the sky is clear or stormy, this lesson will help you sketch it clearly.

You'll begin bringing your landscape features to life as I help you capture the big shapes in any scene you're sketching. We'll go over how to choose a pen for this application, and use it to create interesting edges and lines.
Then, I'll give you tips for incorporating watercolors into your scene as you paint big shapes that help build a sense of distance.

Ready to make your scenes jump off the page? In this lesson, I'll help you use both a dry and a wet brush to create texture that defines the shapes of different landscape features, creates focus in your piece and suggests distance.

After you've added texture to your piece, I'll help you bring greater depth and interest to your work by building value. You'll see how to refine the darks and emphasize the lights in your sketch using a pen and then a brush. And, we'll talk about using ink and paint to bring your sketch to a captivating conclusion.

Enroll in Sketching Landscapes in Pen, Ink & Watercolor, and you'll also learn simple strategies for capturing the same scene in multiple sketches that have completely different senses of mood.

I'm a graphic design teacher, illustrator, sketch blogger and correspondent for Urban Sketchers. I'm also the co–founder of the Urban Sketchers Montreal regional blog. I have a BFA from Concordia University with a specialization in graphic design, but my true love has always been watercolor painting.

My watercolors are in corporate, government and private collections in both Canada and the United States. I live in Montreal, Canada, where I grew up, and I'm still discovering new neighborhoods in my quest to find the best streets and back alleys to sketch.

I love to teach, and I've given many watercolor workshops in the United States and Europe. Now, I'm thrilled to be teaching on Craftsy, where you can watch my lessons anytime and anywhere you like. I
look forward to connecting with you in my class, answering any questions you may have and seeing your finished sketches!

Enjoy sketching outdoor scenes more than ever. Learn techniques that will help you achieve your most rewarding results!

Get started with Sketching Landscapes in Pen, Ink & Watercolor for only $19.99

— that's 50% off! Just add the class to your cart to apply the discount.

Shari Blaukopf | Craftsy Instructor

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