Streamed lesson “Lighthouse Seascape. Watercolor"

was live on August 23, 2026

⏱ Total duration: ~1,5 hours
📹 Recording available with lifetime access

🌿 About This Stream

There's something about a lighthouse standing quiet over calm water: that steady white shape holding its own against sky, rock, and reflection.

In this step-by-step streamed lesson, we paint a lighthouse seascape built from a reference photo, but not copied line for line.

We start with a thumbnail sketch and make real composition decisions before touching paint: tightening the spread of buildings around the lighthouse to suit our paper, and choosing only a handful of rocks, arranged in a loose S-curve, to lead the eye toward the lighthouse instead of pulling focus into a hundred small shapes. The horizon line drops low, giving the architecture the space and giving the water just enough presence to reflect it.

We reserve the lighthouse as untouched white paper through the first washes, then build the sky as one variegated wet-into-wet wash: warm Naples Yellow and pink near the horizon, cool Phthalo and Ultramarine above, before mirroring those same colors, darker and more concentrated, into the water below.

You'll learn how to edit a busy reference down to a few confident decisions, mix a coastal palette of Naples Yellow, Quinacridone Sienna, Phthalo and Ultramarine Blue, Indigo, Olive Green and Nickel Azo Yellow, use Pyrrol Orange as a single accent to unify the whole painting, and build the contrast between the lighthouse's hard architectural lines and the organic softness of rocks and trees. We finish by lifting and rewetting to shape reflections and ripples while the wash is still damp, then add fine linework with a rigger and a touch of white gouache for the last spark of light.

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