Courses
Short chapters to read before you paint, or in between. Each one ends with a small painting task.
All mediaVisual Language: Why Rules?Golden ratio, colour composition, perspective: why not simply paint whatever I want? Because pictures speak. Two chapters on grammar, freedom and the history of visual language.2 Modules · about 35 min
WatercolourAquarell Urban SketchingDraussen skizzieren mit Fineliner und Aquarell: Ausrüstung, schneller Strich, Perspektive, Werte, Farbe.7 Modules · about 155 min
PencilPencil Urban SketchingJust a pencil and a book: line, hatching, values, measuring with the pencil, people in motion, the 10-minute sketch.6 Modules · about 120 min
Ink / finelinerInk and FinelinerThe Line That Remains: tools, bold contours, textures through hatching, values with lines alone, washing with water, city portraits in a single go.6 Modules · about 120 min
Coloured pencilColored Pencil Urban SketchingColor without water: layering and pressure, mixing by glazing, light and shadow with complementaries, staying quick, watercolor pencils on the go.6 Modules · about 115 min
Acrylic / gouacheAcrylics and Gouache on the GoPainting opaquely outdoors: a compact kit, working from dark to light, shapes instead of lines, a limited palette, evening and night scenes, the 30-minute sketch.6 Modules · about 130 min
PencilDrawing People: Structure and ProportionSketch people quickly and convincingly: head units, the jointed stick figure, volumes, weight and balance, movement, simplified hands and faces, figures in the cityscape.7 Modules · about 120 min
Cover images: Gaertner, Brabazon, van Gogh, Rowlandson, Somm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access, CC0).