This is a free video tutorial from the watercolour course NOVA SCOTIA of Canadian Landscape series. You will do a practical exercise of sketching wet stones using fun food wrap techniques.
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Explore the Canadian landscape in the set of mini-courses. Travel with me from East to West painting the Atlantic ocean coast of Nova Scotia, fascinating landscapes of Newfoundland and Labrador, beauty of Prince Edward Island, breathtaking views of Quebec, fairy tale winter sceneries of Ontario, fantastic skies of Saskatchewan, and the natural beauty of Alberta and the British Columbia coast.
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NOVA SCOTIA
This mini course takes you to one of Canada’s Maritime provinces – Nova Scotia. The province is almost entirely surrounded by water and boasts over 13,000 km of coastline, thousands of lakes, lush valleys, whales and the world’s highest tides.
In this course you will improve your skills in painting seascapes, coast lines, surf and sand. You will experiment with the colour palette to create waves, wet send, birds and reflections. You will finish at least four large paintings plus practical exercises.
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
This mini course takes you to the East coast of Canada where you will learn to paint puffins and ocean coast landscapes.
In this course you will learn to create outstanding landscape painting within 1 or 2 hours. The minimum colours in your palette will give you absolute freedom and will help you to train your vision. You will finish at least four large paintings plus practical exercises.
FREE BASIC watercolour tutorial PUFFINS from course Canadian Landscape Newfoundland and Labrador
QUEBEC
Quebec is one of the mini-courses of the Canadian landscape set of courses. Quebec constitutes nearly one-sixth of Canada’s total land area, Quebec is the largest of Canada’s 10 provinces in area and is second only to Ontario in population. You will explore landscapes through the beauty of Quebec’s lakes, National parks and the ocean coast of this incredible province.
In this course you will improve your skills in painting seascapes, coast lines, sky and whales. You will work developing your eye for light and reflections, shading, atmospheric perspective and depth.
FREE BASIC watercolour tutorial WHALE from course Canadian Landscape Quebec
ALBERTA
Alberta is one of mini-course of the Canadian landscape set of courses. You will travel through well known national parks Jasper and Banff.
You will practice to paint mountains, trees, forest lines and water surface reflection. You will experimenting with colour palette to create the illusion of depth of crystal clear turquoise lakes. You will finish at least four large paintings plus practical exercises.
FREE BASIC watercolour tutorial PINE TREE from course Canadian Landscape Alberta
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
October 2024
This mini course takes you to one of the smallest provinces of Canada – Prince Edward Island. The island spans a spectacular stretch of land encompassing sand dunes, salt marches, remnants of an Acadian Forest, coastal headlands, beaches and sandstone cliffs.
In this course you will improve your skills in painting seascapes, coast lines, surf and sand. You will experiment with the colour palette to create waves, wet send, birds and reflections. You will finish at least four large paintings plus practical exercises.
ONTARIO
COMING SOON
This mini course takes you to the central Canadian province of Ontario. You will explore the winter wonders of the province which will brighten your days with fairy tail winter sceneries. In the course you will learn how to paint snow and clear sky.
You will practice painting snow, snow reflections, clouds and clear sky, fog illusions of a first snow, trees, forest lines and water surface reflection. You will experiment with the colour palette to create the illusion of crystal clear sky and sunset reflection on snow. You will finish at least four large paintings plus a lots of practical exercises.
Student’s work from the course NOVA SCOTIA
Sue 2023 
Sue 2023 
Sarah 2023 
Sue 2023 
Sue 2023 
Sarah 2023 
Sue, Canada
Materials that I am going to use during this tutorial;
This list is only for your information, there is no need to get exactly what I am using:
Watercolour paper, Strathmore, 300 gm2; size A4 or bigger;
Watercolour brushes;
- Round # 6 Paul Rubens
- calligraphy brush (recommended);
- flat synthetic brush 3/4 Escoda
Watercolour paint:
IMPORTANT; Paint in tubes gives you the best results.
This is the list what I am going to use during this tutorial:
Yellow Ochre, Daniel Smith
Buff Titanium (optional), Daniel Smith; or you can mix Ochre and Neutral Tint
Quinacridone Gold or Quinacridone Rust or Burnt Sienna, Daniel Smith
Ultramarine, Van Gogh
Olive Green, Van Gogh
Burnt Umber, Daniel Smith
Neutral Tint, Schminske
Payne’s Grey, Van Gogh
COPIC White Opaque (optional)
Watercolour palette with a large surface for mixing pigments. Alternatively, you can use a white ceramic plate;
Food wrap, a small piece to cover the size of your sketch
Two large jars for water
Paper towels
Hair Dryer (optional)
