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Painting Wild Places with Watercolors: Aqua World
Rating: 4.9 out of 5(11 ratings)
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Painting Wild Places with Watercolors: Aqua World

Step-by-step instructional videos with a downloadable Color Painting Reference and full-size Traceable Drawing Guide.
Created byGary Spetz
Last updated 2/2021
English
English

What you'll learn

  • Successfully paint a bold, dynamic, detailed watercolor landscape.
  • Gain confidence in controlling the sometimes unwieldy characteristic of watercolor.

Course content

1 section • 16 lectures • 1h 30m total length

  • Introduction1:23

    This is an introduction to my course that includes the downloadable/printable Beginning Notes and Supply List.

    Step 1 contains the very helpful downloadable/printable:

    Traceable Drawing Guide (downloadable in 4 parts)
    Master to Drawing Guide
    COLOR Painting Printout
    COLOR Painting Steps

    After downloading these PDF files, you can then open it in your computer's PDF viewer (probably Adobe Acrobat Reader). Printing from the PDF viewer will make it print out correctly (size/orientation). If your computer does not have a PDF viewer, you can install Adobe Acrobat Reader for free, here: http://get.adobe.com/reader/

  • Layout & Masking1:36

    Learn layout and masking for watercolor scenes of wild places in the Aqua World course.

  • Base Color Wash6:13

    Apply a base color wash on wet paper, blending turquoise and cerulean with coral tones of yellow ochre, brown madder, and rose; control puddles and salt, dry to lock colors.

  • More Masking5:29

    Peel masking to reveal sunlit shapes, then use a palette knife and liquid masking to form bubbles and coral shapes on blue and turquoise washes, leaving unmasked areas for contrast.

  • Second Color Wash3:47
  • Swiss Cheese & More Masking3:13
  • Third Color Wash2:00
  • Remove Coral Masking2:05
  • Sea Life Details4:49
  • Coral Shaping5:07
  • More Sea Life Details11:22

    Explore watercolor techniques to render sea life with dimension, using scraping to reveal white paper, pre-wetting for blending, and subtle color layers to depict turtles, fish, and parrot fish.

  • More Coral Details3:22
  • More Fish Details3:55

    Paint two unpainted fish by pre-wetting and applying rose tones to each, then after they dry, add blue details and dark rose accents.

  • Finishing Details4:14
  • Helpful Additional Material: Gary's Palette9:04
  • Helpful Additional Material: Masking 10122:25

    Master masking techniques for watercolor landscapes, preserving snow and white areas while shaping mountains, rocks, and trees. Get tips on masking tools, drying, and safe handling.

Requirements

  • This course is designed for all skill levels, so that absolutely includes beginners -- perhaps especially beginners. Beginners are in some ways at an advantage, as they do not have pre-learned ways of painting. So beginners fear not. It is all step-by-step. I hope and believe that more advanced painters will come away with some new techniques as well.

Description

Forged from the creation of his 111 Public Television "How to Paint" episodes, Gary has perfected his popular step-by-step teaching method for watercolor . Rather than progress from an "easy" painting to a more difficult painting, Gary starts his students on "any given painting." Choose "the subject" (the painting) that you prefer, and Gary will walk you through its creation from start to finish.

It has been his experience that by breaking the watercolor painting process down into easy-to-follow steps, students can take on any of his painting compositions—thus progressing more rapidly. Gary’s proven teaching method will make you a better watercolor painter!

ALL SKILL LEVELS

In many ways, novices are at an advantage as they have not yet pre-learned any watercolor painting approaches. But more advanced painters usually benefit from Gary's many unique watercolor techniques as well.

Watercolor is considered the most versatile and challenging painting medium. It can seem, at times, to have a life of its own. Gary demonstrates how to take control of this dynamic medium by breaking it down into easy-to-follow steps.

Painting Image Size: 19" x 13" (on a 21" x 15" half sheet of watercolor paper)

This course has 57-minutes of video content AND, to help you achieve success, it includes numerous very helpful “Downloadable / Printable” Reference Materials:

19” x 13” Drawing Guide (in 4 parts to be taped together)
Painting COLOR Printout
Painting Steps COLOR Printout
Palette Guide
Supply List

This course also includes 32-minutes of bonus video content:


Masking 101
Gary Palette 101

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants to learn unique techniques in controlling the fascinating and versatile medium of watercolor.

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