Mastering the Art of Watercolour Painting

Looking for new creative activities to do at home? Learn how to master watercolour painting.

In these on-demand classes, you will be able to see and learn all the different techniques involved in mastering watercolour painting. There are a number of different techniques, effects, and methods included in this course, across a number of different subjects including magnolia flowers, cats, Italian shutters, trees in a forest, tulips, butterflies, and a kookaburra!

Course Overview From the Artist
In these lessons, I am going to teach you all of the individual techniques that I have learned from over 40 years of painting and teaching in watercolour. I love painting loosely and with mystery. I tend to take for granted how I paint in watercolour. So one day, I sat down and really took note of all the techniques that I use whenever I paint with watercolours. These quick tips are exactly what I use in my own paintings.

What you get:

• 11 x tuition videos demonstrating all steps, including 9 total projects to work on
• You will also receive printable instruction how-to sheets for you to have a go at putting everything you have learned into practise.

Video modules:
There are 11 lessons included in this class:

• Part 1 - Paint onto Paper
• Part 2 - How to Mix Colour
• Part 3 - Glazes - The Tissue Paper Effect
• Part 4 - 3 Stages of Wet into Wet
• Part 5 - Water is your Best Friend - Pull & Spray
• Part 6 - Painting into a Wet Shape
• Part 7 - Loosen up your Edges to Create Mystery
• Part 8 - Lifting out Colour to Create Shapes
• Part 9 - Mixing Directly onto Paper to create Tulips
• Part 10 - Finding your own Shapes with Cling Film Technique
• Part 11 - Autumn Leaves on the Ground - Creating Lost and Found Edge

Projects
There are projects for you to work on within the lessons listed above:

• Project 1 - Glazes - The Tissue Paper Effect - (Part 3): A small abstract painting on glazing and mark making.
• Project 2 - Painting into a Wet Shape (Part 4): A fun painting of a cat, dropping in lots of colours to create its shape - watch how the cat paints itself!!
• Project 3 - A painting and pen drawing of pink magnolia branches.
• Project 4 - Loosen up your Edges to Create Mystery. A painting of some Italian shutters with a flower box below it.
• Project 5 - Lifting out Colour to Create Shapes. Pulling out shapes on a dark background to create trees and branches.
• Project 6 - Mixing Directly onto Paper to create Tulips. A painting of two coloured tulips using analogous colours.
• Project 7 - Creating butterfly wings on a patterned surface (using the clingfilm technique), painting around the negative shape and pulling out with water to create the wings.
• Project 8 - Creating a kookaburra out of mixed media, including pastels & inks.
• Project 9 - Liquid amber leaves on the forest floor (instruction sheets provided), is where you will see how I create a real look of lost and found leaves. This is achieved by painting into the positive shape (the leaf) and around the negative shape (which is the outside of the leaf). You will learn to pull out these edges away from the leaf shape so it all blends in perfectly. The leaf shape is actually the background that I had painted originally.

Finish up this on-demand class with unique artworks and a variety of new skills!

Suitable for both absolute beginners and artists with more experience.
 

• Brushes: Pointed mop brushes (not round) in different sizes, small to large. If you only have small mop brushes, your images will only be about twice the size of the brush.
• Japanese-style brushes: These come in all sizes from small to large, but the large ones are very expensive, so don't feel you need to purchase them.
• Watercolours or acrylics - (watered down and in containers with lids).
• Watercolour paper.

This would also be a unique gift for her, gift for mum or birthday gift.