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Getting started
Fundamentals
- Mechanics of mixing water-colors to a desired strength or color – Mechanics of Mixing Exercise (part of Project 2 of Watercolor Jumpstart)
- Rinsing your brushes – 12 Tips for Happy Brushes, How to Properly Rinse (and Care for) Your Brush (lesson in Getting Started section of Watercolor Jumpstart)
- Caring for brushes – 12 Tips for Happy Brushes
- Brushmarks and brush drawing- Exploring Brushmarks (lesson in Project 2 of Watercolor Jumpstart), Hummingbird Brush Drawing, Dragonfly Brush Drawing, Bee and Coneflower Brush Drawing, Spring Chickadee (Project 1 of Watercolor Jumpstart)
- Choosing colors, setting up a palette – August 2020 Second Sunday Live Demo – What’s on Your Palette?
- Securing/stretching paper – Getting Started in Watercolor section of Watercolor Jumpstart, How (and Why) to Stretch Your Watercolor Paper (lesson in Project 1 of Watercolor Skies and Clouds 1)
- Laying a flat wash – Laying Flat and Graduated Washes (lesson in Project 4 of Watercolor Jumpstart)
- Laying a graduated wash – Laying Flat and Graduated Washes (lesson in Project 4 of Watercolor Jumpstart), Watercolor Skies and Clouds Project 1
- Graduated wash within a shape – Blending Color Within a Shape (lesson in Project 3 of Watercolor Jumpstart)
- Color wheel (understanding basic color theory) – Watercolor Jumpstart Project 3, August 2020 Second Sunday Live Demo – What’s on Your Palette?, Mixing Better Landscape Greens, How to Deal with Phthalo Green
- Mixing greys – April 2020 Live Demo: 50 Shades of Grey (the G-rated version), Introduction to Shadows & Highlights in Watercolor (lesson in Project 2 of Watercolor Jumpstart), Color Mixing for Skies & Clouds (lesson in Project 2 of Watercolor Skies and Clouds 1)
- Mixing greens – Mixing Better Landscape Greens, How to Deal with Phthalo Green
- Basic lifting – Introduction to Shadows & Highlights (lesson in Project 2 of Watercolor Jumpstart), Lifting Wet & Dry Watercolor (lesson in Project 5 of Watercolor Jumpstart), Three Ways to Create Clouds by Lifting (lesson in Project 2 of Watercolor Skies and Clouds 1)
- Preserving white and lights – Watercolor Jumpstart Project 5 (All 4 lesson videos)
- Creating soft edges – Paint Shapes Not Things, Achieving Soft Edges (lesson in Project 2 of Watercolor Jumpstart), Eggs in a Glass Bowl Postcard Paint-Along
- Basic wet in wet effects -Painting Light Clouds on a Darker Sky Using Negative Painting Wet-into-Wet (lesson in Project 2 of Watercolor Skies and Clouds 1), Sunset Variations Postcard Paint-along, Watercolor Jumpstart Project 2
- Spattering, sponging, stamping (applying paint with things other than brushes) – Full Moon Above the Forest Postcard Paint-along, Hummingbird Brush Drawing, Dragonfly Brush Drawing, Bee and Coneflower Brush Drawing, Watercolor Jumpstart Project 1
- Choosing colors, setting up a palette – August 2020 Second Sunday Live Demo – What’s on Your Palette?
Technical skills
Applications/situations (skills in context)
Tips and hacks
Plein air
Presenting Work (alternatives to framing)