- $399
Watercolour Techniques for Interior Designers
- Course
- 24 Lessons
Take Your Watercolour Sketching Further
Ready to explore interior sketching in watercolour in greater depth?
As a special offer, enjoy 50% off my Interior Sketching in Watercolour course.
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Offer valid until 31 December 2026.
Come and take your sketches further, develop your watercolour skills, and bring your interiors to life with confidence.
Bring Your Interior Ideas to Life Through Watercolour
A great interior sketch does more than represent a room. It communicates an idea. It can show the quality of light, suggest the texture of a material, establish atmosphere and help another person understand the feeling of a space before it is ever built.
Watercolour is a particularly powerful medium for this.
In this course, you will learn how to use watercolour specifically for interior design drawing: from understanding the behaviour of water and pigment to constructing perspective, creating depth, describing materials and developing an expressive visual language.
What You Will Learn
This course takes you through the essential watercolour techniques needed to create confident interior drawings.
You will learn how to:
control water, pigment and washes
understand colour mixing and tonal values
create light, shadow and depth
build convincing interior perspective
simplify complex spaces without losing their character
represent different materials and surfaces
work with preliminary construction and tonal sketches
develop a more confident and expressive sketching process
Every technique is demonstrated within the context of interior design, so you can immediately understand how and when to use it in your own work.
From Foundations to Advanced Techniques
The course is structured around a series of practical interior projects.
Each drawing introduces a different aspect of watercolour and gives you an opportunity to apply the techniques immediately.
01 — Foundations
Begin with the essential principles of watercolour and one-point perspective.
You will learn how to approach the medium, understand the relationship between water and pigment, and establish the foundations for your first interior drawing.
02 — Scandinavian-Style Interior
Explore a light and restrained interior while learning about colour, tonal values, layering and atmosphere.
03 — Artist's Studio
Learn how to bring an interior to life through objects, materials, texture and carefully controlled washes.
04 — Rococo Chair
Focus on a single interior element and explore how watercolour can communicate form, detail, ornament and material.
05 — The Old-School Watercolour Technique
Create a bedroom interior beginning with a preliminary black-and-white study before introducing colour.
This project demonstrates another way of thinking through an interior before committing to colour.