Speed Sketching & Painting
Scope: How to paint better with watercolours. How to sketch and paint faster.
Content: This course has six lessons. Each lesson focuses on a different subject: Paris, London, Scarborough, Venice, NY, a cyclist, a commuter. Total 3 hrs+ of videos, lesson tips and reference photos.
Level: Beginner to Advanced.
Connecting with the Participant: Have you ever wondered, how you can simplify and sketch from a complex photo? Or, how you can use 'glazing' or 'wet in wet' techniques and paint with transparent watercolours?
Do you know how to distinguish with your colouring technique the foreground from the background?
If you feel, you have an interest and want to learn this, and progress further as a watercolourist then you are about to begin an exciting journey! Come along and paint with Brinda. To know more about the artist visit her website: www.brindarica.art
A Cyclist
In this video, the basic sketch of the cyclist with bare minimum lines is demonstrated. The second video shows the painting process. It starts with the first wash and then proceeds to different layers of colours. You will see how the colours blend in and how you can use background colours to accentuate the subject.
Paris in the night
Concentrate on the big shapes, filter out unnecessary details. Did I hear you say, "What are unnecessary details?" Well, these are the repetitive elements, like if you sketch neatly few windows in the center of the paper, then the rest just need a few lines and the viewer shall know these are all windows. So, your task is to guide the viewer, not with a photograph, but with a painting.
A Commuter
Using sensory memory
When you are painting, you don't have to look up at the scene or the photo for each and every detail, use your photographic memory (or try to develop) it and add details based on your memory sometimes. If you really have to keep thinking hard, go ahead and take a peak :-).
London Bridge
In this speedsketching video, you will see the sketch and the painting process from a complex photo with the bridge, water, ship and several other elements.
Scarborough, UK
In this urban sketch (drawn and painted on location) video, you will see the sketch and the painting process in clips, and learn how to deal with a panoramic setting in your painting.
Journaling your travels
You will watch in a video how I journal my travels with sketches and paintings, and you can do the same, if you wish to.
Morning in Venice
In this video, you will see how I sketch and paint Venice in the morning. Which colours to choose and how to use colour tones for different times of the day.
Afternoon in New York
In two short videos, you will learn how to sketch New York's skyline with tall buildings, how to sketch and paint the famous and interesting 'Flatiron' building.
Evening in Paris
How to sketch with the Eiffel Tower in the background, and balance the composition with a figure in the foreground.
Introduction to the Course
This is a brief introduction to the course, meet your art instructor Brinda in this video. The course has 6 lessons, with individual videos for each lesson, total of 3 hours, with lesson descriptions, tips, and reference photos.
Art Instructor: Brinda
Brindarica Bose (Brinda) is a Swiss artist of Indian origin, living in Switzerland since 2002. She has been practising art since her childhood, and is an art teacher in Switzerland. She has also given lectures in the Swiss Urbansketchers Symposium and is a watercolourist who has exhibited her paintings internationally. She loves teaching and her courses are always booked out on-site. She loves experimenting and sketching and painting fast, and teaching others to do the same.
Brinda shares the joy of art with refugees and underprivileged children under her project ‘Artists beyond border’ with Wohler Integrationsamt and with Robin Hoods Academy, Ranchi, India. In India, Brinda won (first rank) in two state-level art competitions, and got first or second rank in ~60 district level art competitions. She has exhibited internationally. In 2023, her painting got selected in the top 16 women artists collection by Syracruse, NY; and also got included in the international watercolour magazine ‘Splash’ summer edition, 2023 as a finalist.
Course Curriculum
What is your art journey?
Tell me your story, tell me what you like to paint and join the community of art lovers and artists. You can message me in my Instagram profile too: @artistbrinda.
This is what some of our art participants are saying:
"Brinda is an excellent art teacher because of her experience. She masters her matter, shares it skillfully and likes to support and inspire her course participants."
- Eric Frick
'Lass: die Pinsel swingen, die Farben fliessen, die verschidene Technicken erklären. Unterricht mit Brinda macht viel Spass, ist gut fürs Herz und die Seele und ist sehr empfelenswert.'
-Marjan v.d.Bosch
'Brinda is a versatile artist and very passionate about her work. Her teaching is engaging, inclusive and motivates one to experiment. She also encourages one to keep the art real, throughout the painting process.'
- Sapna Vijayakumar Braendli
