Master the art of watercolor landscape painting
Move to the next level in your creative journey as you learn how to build realistic watercolor landscapes with full control - from start to finish. No racing hearts or fingers crossed. No scouring Youtube mid-painting for answers on what to do next.
Let me show you how I approach landscape painting - my techniques, my thoughts, my way of doing. Giving you a solid knowledge base and the confidence that will help you achieve finished artwork that will wow both yourself and your viewers every time you pick up a brush.
Diving Deeper will open for enrollment in December 2024
- You have an impressive collection of photos in your phone but feel a bit lost when trying to translate them into the beautiful landscapes you see in your head.
- When you first learned the basics of watercolors you imagined yourself flying through more advanced landscapes but quickly realized you must be missing something.
- You’ve painted for a while, have a large number of failed paintings under your belt, and seem to always get stuck at the same place. Your paintings might just feel...meh, and you want them to sparkle!
- Your enthusiasm keeps turning into frustration, opening that box of pigments is beginning to feel so heavy - you’re tempted to give up trying completely.
Here’s the thing:
For me, the lights went on when I started deep-diving into each element of a landscape individually. I realized that as you focus on mastering each action, building trust in your own skills - the final landscape suddenly comes together effortlessly.
Let’s look at everything that goes into painting a watercolor landscape as a stepping stone. In this course, I will walk you through each individual step, from beginning to end. You’ll soon have the confidence and skills to turn any landscape into a beautiful piece of art!
Let me show you you how to:
-Enjoy the freedom of painting without getting stuck in the middle of the process.
-Approach your painting fearlessly and with excitement, knowing exactly what steps to take and in which order.
-Paint elements like skies, water and greenery without overworking.
-Go from dabbling in watercolors to mastering them!
All through 5 hours of video content, PDF handouts and checklists to help you apply everything you’ve learned.
In this intermediate-level course, you’ll learn about:
Pigments and color mixing
How watercolor pigments can work to your advantage OR disadvantage. Get to the bottom of how to get the colors you see in your head onto your paper.
Painting water
From still water to ripples and waves - something that looks so difficult can actually feel effortless.
Making a plan
Planning is everything. Preparation is key. If you put some time into everything that should happen BEFORE your brush touches that precious paper of yours, half the battle will be won.
Painting rocks
Mastering three-dimensional objects.
Shadows, shapes, lights and darks—let’s do this!
Painting skies
Skies can look a million different ways.
Learn how to translate what you see without overcomplicating it.
Painting greenery
Single trees or larger areas, and how to balance wet-on-wet with details.
And to top it all off..
..I’ll show you how to put it all into practice painting four different landscapes from start to finish.
- You could mix colors on the fly, knowing exactly which tube to reach for at any given moment.
- Working in layers got demystified once and for all and you knew exactly what to paint when, and when to stop.
-You could look at a painting and immediately understand how to improve it.
- Painting felt fulfilling and effortless again!
Introduction
-Hello and welcome
-A few words for the days watercolors are frustrating
-Tools and materials
Color mixing
-Watercolor pigments
-Color theory
-Mixing greens and neutrals
-Choosing colors
-Shadows/values/contrast
Before we start painting
-Stretching a paper
-Composition
-Perspective
-Sketching
-Working in layers
Skies
-Basic fundamentals
-From wet to dry
-Painting skies
Water
-Still water
-Ripples and waves
-Water reflections
Rocks
-Painting rocks
Greenery
-Painting trees
Demonstrations
Painting demo 1
Painting demo 2
Painting demo 3
Painting demo 4
Next steps
-Correcting mistakes
-Evaluating your work
-Final words
Suddenly you don’t just paint that beautiful evening sky effortlessly,
you also have an understanding of how fast water dries on your paper.
Here’s what you’ll get
STEP-BY-STEP TRAINING
5 hours of video training, written instructions and handouts to help you apply everything youʼve learned.
COMMUNITY
A Facebook community -
a safe space to share your work and connect with other students in the class.
TRANSFORMATION
The skills and confidence to create watercolor landscapes you will be proud to share.
LIFETIME ACCESS
Work through the course at any time, from anywhere and return to the content whenever you need.
Select the plan that works for you:
Applicable tax rate will be added to the course fee at checkout.
Words from previous students:
What a rich immersion into the next stages of painting in watercolor. Having access to it ongoingly, being able to watch and rewatch it, is such an enormous benefit. I loved her first course, Creating Boldly with Watercolor, and continue to revisit it 2 plus years later. And I know that Diving Deeper will invite many revisits.
Diving Deeper explored more nuanced techniques in bringing depth, richness, and layers to my watercolors. From multiple sky and cloud techniques to various tree studies, water and rock studies, watching Maria’s brush strokes, learning about leaving white space, layering, breaking down a photograph in order to translate it into a painting- this course deepened and expanded my artistry and skills.
I am so grateful to have once again journeyed with Maria in this long awaited second course, Diving Deeper. Deep thanks.
Ellen B
The knowledge you bestow on your students in a friendly and accessible way makes the course such a joy to work through. Being a newbie to art/watercolor and with no real background knowledge of the whys and wherefores it is proving to be invaluable to me. I just know inside I want to create paintings which please me and now I feel I have the tools to do just that. Composition, perspective and focal points especially have been a revelation - I couldn't be happier!
Muriel W
Although I had experience of live course sessions 10 years ago, I gradually felt stuck to postcard formats and I was always overworking my layers. I haven’t gone through the entire course yet but I already enjoy going back to the first lessons for a deeper understanding of the watercolor principles. Now I know how to create coherent atmospheres with less color, and I dare to go bigger!
Patrick C
I have been painting with watercolors for more than 10 years, but had somehow lost the joy of painting. The whole process of planning was lost and most paintings were overloaded, muddy and ended in the bin. With the specific planning and disposition of this course, I realized that watercolor demands planning and a whole palette of skills to make it vivid and interesting.
The course has excellent pedagogical planning, well written texts, informative videos on ”how to” and ”paint along” sections that lets you see, listen, read, and paint along over and over again. If you publish your attempts in the Facebook group you get feedback, good advice as well as encouragement from Maria and your fellow students!
Thanks to Maria and Diving Deeper with watercolor - I’m back on track! My lost painting skills were slowly revived and the joy of painting and peace of mind is back!
Birgitta B
Frequently Asked Questions
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This course is best suited for anyone that has the basic skills of watercolor techniques and is ready to take their watercolor practice to the next level.
If you are just getting started with watercolors and need help with the foundations, my course “Creating Boldly with watercolors” might be a better fit for you!
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The recorded videos add up to about 5 hours in total but I recommend setting aside many hours of practice within each block.
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Once enrollment opens and you purchase the course, you'll be emailed with access immediately!
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As you will have lifetime access to the course you are free to go at your own pace. You can go back and practice each block as many times as you need to!
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You have lifetime access to the course and you get free access to any future updates or added content.
Watch however slowly or quickly or as many times as you want!
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Yes, you will have the option to join a Facebook community to connect with other students on your journey.
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My intention with this course is to make you independent of a teacher and a master at evaluating your own work. However, though the Facebook community will be student led I will check in on a weekly basis to answer questions or help you get clarity on anything you need.
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Yes, the videos will offer subtitles in several languages apart from English (including Spanish, French, Swedish, Dutch etc.) but the written content is all in English.
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I would never want you to be unhappy! If for any reason you’re not satisfied with your purchase, contact me within the first 7 days and I will give you a full refund.
Still have questions? Ask me anything!
