
Introduction to loose, free-flow watercolor painting for beginners and intermediates; learn to let colors run, blend naturally, embrace unpredictability, and complete 10 beautiful watercolor projects.
Preview the course paintings from easy to hard, introduce three new watercolor styles, and build confidence in architectural, still life, object painting, and penguin subjects with simple shapes.
Explore the essential watercolor supplies for this course, including brushes in multiple sizes, paper, eraser, masking tape, paper towels, water jars, and a working board.
Explore essential watercolor techniques in loose free-flow style, including washes, wet-on-wet effects, color flow, dry brushing, and misty pine tree landscapes.
Learn to paint a beach landscape in watercolor using a wet-in-wet technique, building sky, water, and land with blues, oranges, purples, and browns.
Practice grass strokes with darker sap green in upward motions from the bottom to prep the final beach landscape painting, adding leaf spots and crops for texture.
Practice the free float technique to master loose watercolor strokes for a starry night sky painting, blending orange, yellow, sepia, lime green, and green with water.
Create a final watercolor painting in a loose free-flow style by sketching the tent, layering water, blending warm yellows and oranges with greens, then add a tree, moon, and stars.
Apply a watercolor beach landscape by preparing a sky, water, and land color palette, using wet-in-wet and dry-brush techniques to layer blues, browns, and oranges.
Practice grass strokes in a beach landscape using darker greens and upward strokes, then build the foreground with leaves, crops, and dense grass along the waterline.
Master watercolor techniques and color tones for magnolias by controlling water, building pink and purple values, and layering greens for leaves to create depth with darker edges.
Learn to paint magnolia flowers in watercolor using a pink and darker value palette, two brushes, and layering to blend light and dark values on petals.
Explore loose free-flow watercolor drawing by sketching a window scene with measured guidelines, partitions, and flowers, then build light-to-dark values in blue, green, yellow, orange, and pink.
Begin with a water background in sienna, quickly building light-to-dark values and blending. Layer windows, bricks, and shadows, then add flowers and leaves for depth and flow.
Explore watercolor paintings in loose free flow style through technique and practice, layering pine trees, mist, and sky with water blending to create a diffused, misty look.
Create a misty pine forest in watercolor by layering blue values, masking tape borders, and building pine trees with varied strokes and water to blend with the background.
Draw a face and body with circles and lines, add eyes, legs, and a branch, then prepare a watercolor palette of sepia, cerulean blue, orange, red, and purple.
This final painting demonstrates a loose free-flow watercolor technique, using generous water and blended orange, blue, crimson, and green hues to form a flowing bird scene.
Draw a penguin with light strokes using vertical measurement lines, erasing as needed, then prepare a watercolor palette with Persian blue, purple, pink, orange, sepia, black, and white.
Create the final painting by applying water to key areas, layering saturated blues, oranges, and burnt sienna, and refining edges and value to depict penguins with light and shadow.
Master drawing a stand with guiding lines, an oval base, and a candle, then finalize with a color palette of orange, purple, black, and white gel pen.
Execute a final painting in a loose free-flow watercolor style by layering orange and Persian blue, blending with water, and building depth through saturation and highlights.
In this course, I am gonna teach you 9 beautiful watercolor paintings. So be free to let the colors run across the paper and blend naturally with each other.
Through this course, I am going to help you get rid of that fear and doubt when approaching a watercolor painting and we are going to give ourselves the permission to accept the unpredictable nature of watercolors and how to work with the “mistakes” that come with it.
This Course is all about letting go of control with watercolors. So, whether you are a beginner or an intermediate and want to just play with watercolors then this course is for you.
When we talk about Painting techniques, we gonna mostly be working with wet-on-wet techniques just to make you overcome that fear of starting out with watercolors and be free and understand how to work and accept mistakes that come with it. We gonna also be using wet on dry technique in some paintings for some detailing and all.
For the ones who are just starting out with watercolors, Here, I would highly recommend my previous watercolor course where you can learn all the basic skills and work on 7 detailed art projects.
Here we will be covering 10 topics:
1 free Landscape Painting ( In place of Apple Painting)
Starry Night Sky
Magnolia Flowers
Window with Flowers
Misty Pine Trees
Winter Bird
Two Penguins
Vintage Candle Stand (Still Life)
Lantern
Architectural Painting
By the end of the course, I am sure you are going to have a better understanding of this medium and some techniques.
See you in the class!