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Watercolor Skies and Clouds

Project 2 Design & Planning Video

Course Content Course Home Page Preliminaries Project 1 — Crescent Moon in a Pre-Dawn Sky Project 2 — Dramatic Clouds at the Beach

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Working with Reference Photos

Course Content Course Home Page Preliminaries Project 1 — Crescent Moon in a Pre-Dawn Sky Project 2 — Dramatic Clouds at the Beach

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Watercolor Skies and Clouds

Working on Saturated Paper to Practice Wet-into-Wet Techniques

It’s a good idea to practice techniques on a scrap piece of paper BEFORE using them on a painting in progress. But what if you want to practice a wet-in-wet technique and your stretcher bars or Gatorboard are already in use, or your scrap is too small for your stretchers? This video shows you how…

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Watercolor Skies and Clouds

Preserving Soft-Edged Highlights in Watercolor with a Gum Arabic Resist

Course Content Course Home Page Preliminaries Project 1 — Crescent Moon in a Pre-Dawn Sky Project 2 — Dramatic Clouds at the Beach

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Watercolor Skies and Clouds

Three Ways to Mask a Crescent Moon

Course Content Course Home Page Preliminaries Project 1 — Crescent Moon in a Pre-Dawn Sky Project 2 — Dramatic Clouds at the Beach

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Using Multiple Washes to Create Cloud Layers

Course Content Course Home Page Preliminaries Project 1 — Crescent Moon in a Pre-Dawn Sky Project 2 — Dramatic Clouds at the Beach

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Watercolor Skies and Clouds

Project 1 Design & Planning

Course Content Course Home Page Preliminaries Project 1 — Crescent Moon in a Pre-Dawn Sky Project 2 — Dramatic Clouds at the Beach

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Watercolor Skies and Clouds

How and Why to Stretch Your Watercolor Paper

Yes, I know. It’s a nuisance, and you just want to get started painting! In Watercolor Jumpstart (my online beginner class), we work on very small sheets of paper (8×11″ and smaller). At that size, it’s possible to simply tape down all four sides of the paper and not run into too much trouble with buckling. In…

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Watercolor Skies and Clouds

Color Mixing for Skies and Clouds in Watercolor (Daytime Skies)

Course Content Course Home Page Preliminaries Project 1 — Crescent Moon in a Pre-Dawn Sky Project 2 — Dramatic Clouds at the Beach

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Watercolor Skies and Clouds

Three Ways to Create Clouds in Watercolor by Lifting

Course Content Course Home Page Preliminaries Project 1 — Crescent Moon in a Pre-Dawn Sky Project 2 — Dramatic Clouds at the Beach

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Watercolor Skies and Clouds

Project 1 Paint-Along—Crescent Moon in a PreDawn Sky

Course Content Course Home Page Preliminaries Project 1 — Crescent Moon in a Pre-Dawn Sky Project 2 — Dramatic Clouds at the Beach

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Painting Dark Clouds on a Lighter-Value Sky in Watercolor

Course Content Course Home Page Preliminaries Project 1 — Crescent Moon in a Pre-Dawn Sky Project 2 — Dramatic Clouds at the Beach

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