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Amid El Haddad
Light and Atmosphere in Watercolor: From Quick Sketches to Emotional Landscapes
Discover Amid El Haddad’s signature method of combining structure and emotion while creating 4 expressive light-filled watercolors
LIFETIME ACCESS |
NEW ONLINE COURSE
by Amid El Haddad
Light and Atmosphere in Watercolor: From Quick Sketches to Emotional Landscapes
Discover Amid El Haddad’s signature method of combining structure and emotion while creating 4 expressive light-filled watercolors
LIFETIME ACCESS |
In this carefully guided journey, you’ll discover how to paint light itself – not objects, but the mood, depth, and quiet poetry that light brings to every scene. With each brushstroke, you’ll learn to express more by doing less, and to bring out the soul of a place through shadow, timing, and structure.
Led by the brilliant Amid El Haddad – an artist celebrated for blending architectural clarity with impressionistic beauty – this course is a step-by-step system designed to help you paint with purpose and freedom. Amid’s unique method begins with a clear plan and ends with light-filled paintings that breathe with life.
By the end, you’ll not only have completed 4 paintings that each reveal light in a different way – winter light, evening glow, soft reflections, and more – but you’ll also walk away with your painting process. One that is thoughtful, freeing, and truly your own.
This course will suit artists who already have basic watercolor painting skills and want to:
Learn to simplify scenes and paint with freshness – even if you tend to get stuck in perfectionism
Gain practical skills to paint light, shadow, and atmosphere with confidence
Follow a clear process instead of guessing, getting a reliable, step-by-step structure
Move beyond technical exercises – and start expressing mood, emotion, and story through your watercolors
Amid about the course...
Course Table of Contents
10 video lessons + 1 intro video (total 5h 40min)
Introduction
Learn more about your instructor Amid El Haddad and see how the course will be organized.
1 video lesson, duration 15 min
Lesson 1.
Winter Lights and Reflections
Discover how to create fresh, vibrant washes with confident, alla prima brushstrokes. Learn to paint transparent water and reflections by mastering color layering and timing.
This lesson will also teach you how to preserve luminosity by working with the natural life cycle of watercolor. By the end, you’ll be able to simplify complex winter scenes and capture light and reflections with clarity and freedom.
2 video lessons, duration 54 min
Lesson 2.
Autumn Sunset with Cows
Learn to build atmosphere through subtle shifts in temperature and value, and how to naturally integrate figures like cows into your landscapes. Discover techniques to guide the viewer’s eye using warm-to-cool transitions.
By the end, you’ll be able to evoke quiet, emotional scenes through tonal harmony and suggestion, without relying on heavy detail.
3 video lessons, duration 1 h 36 min
Lesson 3.
Bruges — The Venice of the North
Learn to capture golden hour light using bold, unexpected color combinations. Master creating fluid transitions within a single wash and simplify complex architecture while maintaining depth.
This lesson will help you transform a busy city scene into a poetic composition shaped by light and structure.
3 video lessons, duration 1 h 32 min
Lesson 4.
San Marco, Venice
Learn to create depth and space in cityscapes using silhouettes and tonal values. Discover how to suggest crowds and motion without detailing every figure, and how to portray monumental buildings with clarity and rhythm.
By the end, you’ll confidently express narrative through atmosphere and gesture, avoiding overworking your paintings.
2 video lessons, duration 1 h 20 min
What results you will achieve at the course:
01
See how to use light and shadow to create mood, depth, and emotion
02
Master a step-by-step method of creating a painting – from sketch to final brushstroke
03
Learn how to focus on what matters without losing the soul of the subject
04
Build balance and clarity using values and focal points
05
See how to let go of fear, stop overworking, and trust the flow
06
Capture different types of light in finished, frame-worthy artworks
Your instructor
Amid El Haddad
- Born in Morocco and based in Belgium, Amid El Haddad is a watercolor artist and architect who discovered his passion for watercolor during his studies at the Victor Horta Academy of Fine Arts.
- His work blends architectural precision with poetic impressionism, deeply influenced by his meeting with renowned artist Joseph Zbukvic.
- Amid has exhibited internationally in Belgium, Italy, and Morocco. He teaches in fine art academies in Belgium and holds workshops across Europe, the US, and Australia.
- He is a member of the American Watercolor Society (AWS) and San Diego Watercolor Society (SDWS), with his art recognized by prestigious awards and exhibitions, including the American Watercolor Society in New York.
- Known for his plein-air paintings, Amid treats watercolor as a living medium – capturing light, mood, and energy with every deliberate brushstroke
We offer different plans
Standard
10 video lessons +1 intro video (total 5h 40min)
- 4 final scenes in unique author's technique
- 24/7 access from any location at your own pace
- LIFETIME access to the video lessons as a bonus
- Access to the moderated students community on WhatsApp
- Final project (your own painting)
- Bonus: 30 ArtiCoins
Premium
10 video lessons +1 intro video (total 5h 40min)
- 4 final scenes in unique author's technique
- 24/7 access from any location at your own pace
- LIFETIME access to the video lessons as a bonus
- Access to the moderated students community on WhatsApp
- Official certificate of completion
- Final project (your own painting)
- Individual written feedback from a professional curator within 75 days on 4 paintings + 1 creative task
- Bonus: 40 ArtiCoins
Only 30 places are available
Elite
10 video lessons +1 intro video (total 5h 40min)
- 4 final scenes in unique author's technique
- 24/7 access from any location at your own pace
- LIFETIME access to the video lessons as a bonus
- Access to the moderated students community on WhatsApp
- Official certificate of completion
- Final project (your own painting)
- Individual written feedback from Amid El Haddad himself! within 75 days on 4 paintings + 1 creative task
- Bonus: 50 ArtiCoins
Only 10 places are available
Standard
10 video lessons +1 intro video (total 5h 40min)
- 4 final scenes in unique author's technique
- 24/7 access from any location at your own pace
- LIFETIME access to the video lessons as a bonus
- Access to the moderated students community on WhatsApp
- Final project (your own painting)
- Bonus: 30 ArtiCoins
Premium
10 video lessons +1 intro video (total 5h 40min)
- 4 final scenes in unique author's technique
- 24/7 access from any location at your own pace
- LIFETIME access to the video lessons as a bonus
- Access to the moderated students community on WhatsApp
- Official certificate of completion
- Final project (your own painting)
- Individual written feedback from a professional curator within 75 days on 4 paintings + 1 creative task
- Bonus: 40 ArtiCoins
Only 30 places are available
Elite
10 video lessons +1 intro video (total 5h 40min)
- 4 final scenes in unique author's technique
- 24/7 access from any location at your own pace
- LIFETIME access to the video lessons as a bonus
- Access to the moderated students community on WhatsApp
- Official certificate of completion
- Final project (your own painting)
- Individual written feedback from Amid El Haddad himself! within 75 days on 4 paintings + 1 creative task
- Bonus: 50 ArtiCoins
Only 10 places are available
You have no risks – we support you!
No risk for you*
In case after 1–2 lessons of the coursе you realize that is not for you, YOU WILL GET YOUR MONEY BACK!
*within 14 days after payment
Freeze
For Premium plan – If the start date is not convenient, we freeze the course
(1 time free of charge)
Freedom & Mobility
Make your own schedule and go through the lessons at a comfortable pace – whenever and wherever you like
Certificate of completion (for Premium and Elite Plans)
Upon completion of the course for the students of Premium and Elite plans we issue a certificate. The certificate could be used as a proof of your qualification's upgrade at work (if it is related to arts) and for your private affairs as a recognition of your mastery in painting.
Your curator for this course
Terrilynn Dubreuil
Watercolor artist
«I have painted with watercolor since my Fine Art classes at the University and I started teaching it soon after and have taught it ever since. I love the fresh, flowing approach to the medium.
Watercolor gives me an oblique strategy approach to art because one has to to approach it in an almost „opposite“ way of thinking from other media. It keeps my brain active! I use watercolor a lot for studies, plein air sketches, and underpaintings for my pastel paintings.»
- Degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts, Summa Cum Laude, with augmented Master level courses.
- Teaching art for 35 years. Multiple media and levels.
- Workshops, Classes and Demos, both live and virtual, with local and international students.
HERE YOU MAY FIND TERRILYNN’S WORKS
Examples of Terrilynn's works
How is your learning process organized?
BEFORE COURSE
Full course program
List of course materials
Friendly community of beginner and professional artists
AT COURSE
Recorded video lessons
Watch lessons at your own pace
Closed students' chat
Feedback from curator
AFTER COURSE
Certificate of completion
Own portfolio
Skills and knowledge practiced
Part of our art community
Which materials do you need
for the course?
These are only some suggestions to understand what could be the material I will use.
Paper: Hahnemuhle “Le Rouge”- NOT cotton – 100% acid free- 325 g/sqm 30x40 cm (or Canson XL Watercolor)
Brushes : every kind of brush: natural, synthetic, round, flat, small, big, chinese, mop, hake, liner, etc …
Colours : (I use Roman Szmal Aquarius watercolour godets)
Ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, ceruleum blue, phthalo blue, cobalt turquoise, lavender, burnt Sienna, burnt umber, yellow ochre, lunar black, yellow Naple, titanium white, pyrrol orange, hansa yellow, yellow cadmium, quinacridone pink, (goethite*, transparent red oxide*)
* Roman Szmal Aquarius colours
Examples of Amid's work
What students from around the globe say about learning with Amid El Haddad
Frequently asked questions
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