
Learn to create nine watercolor Christmas cards from scratch, with each design taught in its own lesson, covering painting techniques, folding, and materials to finish ready-to-give or ready-to-sell cards.
Gather essential watercolor materials for nine snow landscape cards: paint set or tubes, three brushes, masking tape, 300 gsm paper, pencil, ruler, craft knife, and scissors.
Learn to create a clean crease on thick cards by marking a crease with a ruler and pencil, then forming and flattening it with the back of a butter knife.
Discover two ways to cut watercolor paintings: scissors or a craft knife for neater, directed cuts. Learn to align paper, draw guides, and trim edges for clean, card-ready art.
Finish assembling your cards by sticking the watercolor paintings to the cards with a glue stick, flattening to prevent warping, and weighing them to stay flat.
demonstrates a snow landscape with two trees, a horizon line, and hills, blending cobalt and cerulean blues, using bloom and toothbrush snow highlights.
Demonstration 2 teaches painting a snow landscape with a house by sketching the horizon, blocking basic shapes, and building depth with three primaries, blues, grays, and snow textures.
Demonstrates painting a snow landscape with a reindeer, using a horizon line, basic deer outlines, and trees, and applying ultramarine blue sky with red for depth in watercolor greeting cards.
Demonstrates watercolor techniques to render a snowy church landscape, emphasizing light from the left, dimensional building washes, tree details, and color mixing with cerulean blue, red, and ultramarine.
Paint a simple snowy scene with a fence leading the eye and distant trees, using a dry wash and buff titanium with cerulean blue for hazy feeling.
Create a simple snow scene using watercolor washes to place a horizon line, a central path, houses, and trees, leveraging blues, reds, and purples for atmospheric sky.
Paint a snowy landscape featuring houses and trees, using cerulean and ultramarine washes, leaving roofs white, and adding shadows and subtle snow details with a toothbrush.
Demonstrates a quick five-minute watercolor sketch of St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, emphasizing the domes, including onion-shaped bulbs, a cool gray sky, and light foreground figures to convey the scene.
Demonstration 9 guides watercolor snow landscapes, painting a snowy street scene with cars, distant trees, and houses, using cool gray washes, ultramarine and sepia for contrast.
Master line-and-wash watercolor techniques for coastal scenes and architectural landscapes, using a cotton sketchbook and waterproof pens, with layered sky, water, rocks, and figures.
Christmas is nearly HERE! I'm sure you are looking for gifts to give to your family or friends. Well, you've come to the right class. Everyone appreciates handmade gifts that are unique and made with love! In this class, we will learn how to paint holiday-themed landscapes and cards for beginners.
The great thing about these cards is that, unlike standard ones, they can be framed as a unique piece of art by the recipient and be treasured for years to come.
By the end of this class, you will gain confidence in painting snow scenes with a variety of watercolor techniques, and will be proud to show off some cards of your own!
Each scene takes between 5-15 minutes to complete, and you'll have a lot of fun painting and putting them together.
Bonus Workshop included: Venice/Beach Watercolor Scenes!
In this class, we will learn:
How to Paint 9 holiday-themed snow scenes (9 different projects)
How to create a unique card with simple materials
How to fold your card professionally using a special trick
How to paint snow by preserving the white of the paper
Painting simple trees and buildings with shadows
Enroll now in this class, and let's start painting!
*My reference paintings are included in each lecture section to help you with the drawing.