Interior Sketching in Watercolour
Master Watercolour Techniques for Your Interior Design Drawings
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(Level: Basic to Comprehensive)
This course is beginner-friendly
Master watercolour technique from scratch for your interior drawings.
💦 Water is life. Watercolour is literally water with colour. To me, watercolour is life as well, it is transparent and expressive at the same time, always new, and just beautiful. Love it 💙
Many artists value it higher than any other technique and say that's it is the hardest technique to master.
Watercolour is special for me, it was the first "paint" technique I started learning at the age of six y.o. at the child's art school "Alexandrino" (before that, I could only put my hands on crayons, kids' pastels, and markers). It is with me my entire life: from the child's art school, through my 6 years at the St. Petersburg Stieglitz Art Academy, and now in my "adult" life:-)
You can see some of my watercolour drawings with the hashtag #watercolourOlgaSorokina on Instagram.
In this course, I would like to share not only the secrets of this mystical technique, but also my love and affection towards it. I'm sure, you will feel the love and get inspired for your own creative practice.
What we will draw in this course.
We will accomplish five watercolours, here they are:
1. Intro Lesson
(Where you will get the very basics and cornerstones of watercolour technique and 1-point perspective drawing)
2. Scandinavian-Style Room
3. Artist's Studio
4. Rococo Chair
5. "Old-School" Watercolour Technique: Bedroom Interior Drawing with a Preliminary Black & White Sketch
How long is each lesson?
Some lessons are hour-long, some are an hour and a half. Each lesson consists of several parts, usually, 10 to 25 min long so the information will be super digestible, inspiring, and easily learned. From my experience, this is the best format and my students hugely benefit from it, no matter which level they are at, beginner or advanced.
How long is the course and how long will it take me to go through the lessons?
There are 6+ hours of great and professionally-edited content (trust me, you will gain great knowledge and skills after dedicating these hours). Generally, it takes my students somewhere from 2 weeks to 2 months to deeply go through the content. It depends on how much time you have daily to immerse yourself in the course.
Student's drawings from the course
Here are a couple of examples of what your peers achieved after taking this course. Plus, I added some photos from my live classes as the content of this online course was battle-tested during in-person workshops.
From what used to be one of my favourite and most demanded in-person workshops -- to this online course...
Who is this course for?
You will greatly benefit from taking this online course if you are:
• An interior designer/architect
• An interior design/architecture student
• A sketch artist and want to widen your range of techniques and up-level your skills
• Beginner in watercolour
• Advanced in watercolour in general, but want to fine-tune your skills in the field of interior drawing
• Just love watercolour and want to become pro in it
As I designed this course specifically I kept the wants and needs of these creatives in my mind.
Materials we will be using in this course
Here are some of my favourite tools:
• Pencils. I like pencils from Palomino Blakwing (Pearl) and Koh-i-noor (2B, 4B)
• Liners or pens: multilines, fineliners, dip pens, fountain pens, even regular black ink gel pen
• Paper: I recommend using watercolour paper which is 100% cotton, 300 g paper weight (Brands like Hahnemühle, Jumbo, Arches, Canson, etc)
• Brushes: we want to have at least two brushes for this course - thin and thick, I use No. 4 and No. 8, synthetic), natural or synthetic.
• Watercolour Paint: it can be a watercolour set or separate paints, essential colours for us will be:
cadmium yellow,
golden ocher,
burnt umber or burnt sienna,
cobalt blue
ultramarine,
black
• Additional materials: a glass or water container, paper napkins or paper towel, palette: mixing palette or you can simply use a piece of your watercolour paper
See you inside the course!
Olga Sorokina
Your Instructor
Olga Sorokina is an artist who teaches.
She is the author of the book "The SKETCH. Interior Design Drawing".
It is available on Amazon and is included in the interior design program of Denver University, USA.
Olga has been teaching interior sketching and perspective drawing both in-person and online since December 2014.
There are more than 10K+ people enrolled in her online courses and free perspective drawing challenge.
She runs a blog on interior drawing and creativity, which is read by 17K+ creatives per month.
Olga speaks at summits and online events on interior design/architecture/creativity topics. Among her recent speaking gigs are:
- ArchiMentors Summit, October 2020
- Sketchbook Revival, April 2020
- Sketching Retreat, November 2022
She has received numerous international prizes for both interior design and architecture projects:
- «IDEA! restaurant», best restaurant project, 2008 (winner)
- Russian Design, bar project, 2009 (shortlist, exhibition in Moscow)
- "It's Liquid," "Architecture" nomination, International Ecology Centre project, 2014 (winner)
- "Archi Graphic Art" Contest by S. Tchoban, 2017 LINK (shortlist)
Olga worked as a sketch artist with:
- Ralph Lauren Home,
- Sochi Olympics,
- Studio Seilern Architects, London,
- Yves Delorme, Paris
- Denizen (#1 lifestyle magazine in New Zealand),
- Rikke Gudnitz, royal fashion designer, Copenhagen
Olga is a founder of Online School of Sketching Ltd, with a range of online courses on interior and fashion sketching.
Her graduates live all across the globe: USA, Canada, Europe, Russia, South Africa, UK, UAE, India, China, Japan, etc.
They have achieved their drawing goals. For some, it is to make an excellent client presentation with beautiful hand drawings, for another to become confident in sketching and quickly reflect their ideas. A lot of id students take her courses to draw for their interior diploma projects. Some of Olga's students become professional sketch artists and make a living out of it. Some graduates even start teaching interior sketching in their communities.
Olga holds a MA (Master of Arts degree) in Interior Design. Olga studied interior design at the Saint-Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design.
Currently, Olga lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with her husband and son.
Website: schoolofsketching.com
Instagram: @schoolofsketching
YouTube: schoolofsketching