What Will I Learn? Then you’ll use your understanding of highlights and shadows to paint three cat’s-eye marbles in the sunlight. Project Prerequisites: Supplies You Will Need: Note: Set your printer to “no scaling” or “print actual size” instead of “fill page” to print the templates at the correct size for your watercolor paper. Course…
What Will I Learn? In this project, you’ll learn how to Suggesting something with a few quick brush marks is one of the hallmarks of watercolor painting. It takes practice, but pays big dividends, especially if you aspire to paint on location. Supplies you will need: Course Content Course Home Page Getting Started Project 1…
These short preliminary lessons will help you get your materials set up and ready to paint.
What Will I Learn? Since watercolor is a transparent medium, we need strategies for reserving the white of the paper to be the white areas in our paintings. In this project, you’ll learn different ways to reserve whites: Then you’ll use these techniques to reserve different kinds of white and light areas as you paint…
In this project, we’ll learn several variations of line-and-wash sketching in watercolor. Line-and-wash is a great technique for journaling and travel sketching. Project Prerequisites Supplies you will need: Course Content Course Home Page Getting Started Project 1 — Spring Chickadee Project 2 — Marbles in the Sun Project 3 — Rainbow Rose Window Project 4…
A simple dragonfly postcard, suitable for all experience levels.
In this video, look over my shoulder and watch as one of my paintings evolves from initial concept sketch to the final version.
Learn a more free form approach to planning as we complete the lighthouse painting we designed in the latest series of videos.
Some things to watch out for that make it easier or harder to reserve lights and whites in watercolor.
A “default” strategy for deciding on the painting sequence for a watercolor. We’ll see how it was used for two earlier examples and then apply it to the designs from our last video.
Here are some ideas for breaking free from “the tyranny of the photo” so you can use your photo references more creatively
3 simple strategies you can use to start designing simple paintings of your own, even if you just picked up a brush for the first time today.
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