Learn How to Use Right Side of Brain with Painting

This is course in contour drawing and painting on the right side of the brain, including colour mixing, and loose watercolour techniques. This exercise will put you into the right side of your brain, which is the artistic side.

Did you know that when you copy a specific subject your brain automatically switches to the left side of the brain-the analytical side? This course will help you to explore your creative side!

What you get:

• Nine tuition videos demonstrating all steps.
• You will also receive printable instruction how-to sheets for you to have a go at putting everything you have learned into practice.
• How to draw and paint a still life vase of flowers, putting into practice all the above techniques

What you will learn:

• Free hand contour drawing by using a fine felt tip waterproof pen
• How to use your pencil to create tone and personality in your linework
• Lose the fear of colours spontaneously mixing together
• How to paint using Japanese brush strokes with several colours on your brush at the one time.
• How to create shapes from your imagination that will look like flowers and leaves
• How to mix many different greens for your stems and leaves
• How to paint beautiful colour combinations without making mud
• How to mix analogous colour schemes.

Video modules:

• Part 1 - Contour drawing a bouquet in fine felt tip black waterproof pen
• Part 2 - Swatch - Colour mixing with Vibration. Learn to allow colours to back run
• Part 3 - Swatch - Painting juicy watercolour flowers shapes
• Part 4 - Practice adding colours to your bouquet
• Part 5 - Contour draw your basket of flowers in pencil
• Part 6 - Adding paint to your flowers, creating petals
• Part 7 - Adding stems and leaves
• Part 8 - Painting the basket
• Part 9 - Painting the finishing touches
• Part 10 - Demonstration of Di painting an actual still life of a vase of flowers using all the techniques you have just learnt

Finish up this on-demand class with a still life vase of flowers artwork and a variety of new skills!

Suitable for both absolute beginners and artists with more experience.
 

• Watercolours paints - With a variety of colours in yellows, blues, pinks, reds
• A very fine tip waterproof black marking pen (I used.05)
• 2 x water containers
• A1 white printers paper (for the basket of flowers painting) or any other thin drawing paper. It’s important with this exercise to paint the large basket on a cheaper piece of paper so you can relax a bit more and not worry if it doesn’t work out the first time. This is meant to be a beautiful sheet of wrapping paper.
• A4 hot pressed (smooth) 300gr watercolour paper (for the bouquet in ink)
• A3 hot pressed (smooth) 300gr watercolour paper (for your own still life flower arrangement)
• Size 10 NEEF mop brush (I used for the large wrapping paper)
• Size 6 mop brush (for the pen bouquet)
• 8B lead pencil - very sharp (for the wrapping paper flowers in a basket)