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The Warm Light
of the Old Town
mini-course with Sunil Linus De

In this watercolor course, Sunil Linus De will teach you to create expressive, atmospheric landscapes using essential watercolor techniques.

You'll learn to work with light, shadow, color, and value to create depth while balancing soft backgrounds with expressive foreground details.

In the final lesson, you'll combine these skills to paint a warm and lively watercolor streetscape.

Material: watercolor

Duration: 3 hours 10 minutes

Access: unlimited

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In this mini-course you'll learn to:

  • Build a convincing streetscape using one-point perspective to create depth and distance
  • Use atmospheric and color perspective to separate the foreground from distant elements
  • Master wet-on-wet techniques for soft foliage, backgrounds, and smooth color transitions
  • Create expressive textures with dry-brush techniques for trees, walls, and architectural details
  • Work with light and shadow to create strong contrast, volume, and atmosphere
  • Combine different brushstrokes, washes, and watercolor techniques in one cohesive painting
  • Bring all these skills together to create a lively, atmospheric finished watercolor streetscape

Sunil

Linus De

Watercolor artist

  • Paints the beauty of light and shadow.
  • A professional watercolor artist with over 35 years of experience, who studied Applied Arts at the Raja Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts in Kerala, India.
  • Inspired by nature and everyday life, his work explores light, shadow, atmosphere, and emotion.
  • With exhibitions in India and internationally, he has received multiple awards, including the Kerala Lalitha Kala Academy Award for Nostalgia.
  • Today, his works are held in collections worldwide. He lives and works in Kerala, India.
Sunil Linus De

Course materials

1. Pencil:

  • HB mechanical pencil

2. Paper:

  • cold-pressed handmade watercolor paper
  • size: 11 × 7.5 inches

3. Brushes:

  • 1-inch flat brush
  • No. 4 mop brush
  • No. 4 angle brush
  • No. 12 and No. 6 round brushes
  • No. 1 small detail brush

4. Watercolor paints:

  • artist-grade watercolors in a variety of colors

Inside the course: guided practice sessions

Before the final streetscape, Sunil Linus De walks you through three short practice paintings: a glowing sunset sky done wet-on-wet, three trees that show how light, shadow and perspective create depth, and a hillside temple where you build texture with dry brush and sprinkled water.

Loose Application & Wet on Wet
Loose Application & Wet on Wet · 30 min
Practice controlling pigment and water on wet paper, then paint a glowing sunset from imagination: a sky blended wet-on-wet around a paper-white sun, a mountain silhouette, and a flooded rice field with palm-tree reflections in dry brush.
Light, Shadow & Perspective
Light, Shadow & Perspective · 30 min
Paint three trees — near, middle and far — to see where depth in a landscape comes from: the closest gets dark tones and sharp detail, the farthest stays pale and loose, and every shadow follows the light and one-point perspective.
Brushwork & Foreground Textures
Brushwork & Foreground Textures · 31 min
Paint a hillside with a small temple and stone steps: lift clouds out of a wet-on-wet sky, give the mountain rough dry-brush edges, and build rock texture with an angle brush and sprinkled water.

Pricing

Full access
 
  • 3 hours 10 minutes of step-by-step video: theory + real-time practice
  • 1 finished painting — «The Warm Light of the Old Town»
  • Machine-translated subtitles: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Chinese, Indonesian
  • Lifetime access to all course materials
20.99 $
$ €
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