Creative Watercolours Near Beginners

Name: Creative Watercolours Near Beginners
Rating: 4.3 (83 reviews)

The next step in getting creative with watercolours.

Created byDeborah Burrow

Last updated 3/2016

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What you'll learn

Apply paint in small areas of wet-in-wet with control.
Understand complementary colours and how to use them.
Understand Aerial Perspective and choose paints to demonstrate it's effect.
Confidently use bold colour in a painting.
Use different techniques to describe texture.

Course content

1 section • 15 lectures • 1h 10m total length

Introduction to The Vibrant Fern Painting2:43
Introduction
Starting the Vibrant Fern Painting3:30
Getting started with the design, the colours involved and the wet-in-wet technique.
I recommend you watch the minute long Guide and Tips presentation before you start.
The Vibrant Fern begins to take shape8:00
Completing the rest of the right side of the fern.
Completing Vibrant Fern Painting5:34
Introduction to The Complementary Landscape Painting1:16
Explore painting with a two-color complementary palette, using orange and blue to create neutrals and blue accents in landscapes. Experiment with light red and burnt-orange for neutrals and blue accents.
Starting the Landscape Painting7:05
Learn to paint a simple landscape using blue and light red washes to form sky, clouds, a distant hedge, and a textured foreground with depth.
Bringing the Complementary Colours together6:10
Mix blue and light red to form a strong gray with less water, layer shadows from the right over barn and birch tree, and add fine details.
Lesson Extra - Aerial Perspective8:17
Introduction to Autumn Treescape Painting1:29
Learn to create textures in autumn treescape painting using textured tree methods, wet-on-wet blending, salt for leaf shapes, and clingfilm for bark, emphasizing depth through composition.
Starting the Autumn Treescape Painting5:43
Begin with clean water on the upper half and lemon yellow to form the canopy. Layer cadmium orange, burnt sienna, and reds with salt to reveal white leaf shapes.
Painting in the Trees10:54
Learn to create textures and depth in watercolor by lifting paint with clingfilm, using salt for patterns, and building a layered canopy with sienna, yellow, and blue.
Completing the Painting9:46
Finish a watercolor scene by shaping tree-trunk textures with a dry brush, adding foreground trees, and balancing shadows with burnt sienna, marine blue, and crimson; cadmium yellow lights the ground.
Drawing Guides for each lesson3:00
Inspiring Ideas to Try1:00
Conclusion and Review1:00
Creative Watercolours Course Module 2 Knowledge Quiz

Requirements

You will need watercolour paper, basic watercolour palette, brushes, a board to tape your paper to, a clean rag, some water in a pot.

Description

Module 2 in the Creative Watercolours Course is here!

In this module we will be getting into more creative techniques and aiming to get more controlled effects.

The course is taught using demonstrations on video. There are also photos and drawing guides for you to use as you need.

There are 3 main projects plus an informative lesson extra. Each project is a lesson split into 2 or more parts to keep the stages easy to follow.

We will be exploring vibrant colours and controlled wet-into-wet techniques, complementary colours and an example of how to use them in a painting, and more textures in watercolour and how to create them in a beautiful autumn woodland painting.

The lesson extra is a demonstration of how to create depth and aerial perspective in a painting.

The course ends with some inspiring ideas for you to try and a little quiz to test your knowledge.

I'm postitive you will enjoy these lessons as much as my class students have done here in England.

Enjoy, and I'll see you in the first lesson.

To enjoy the promotional price of $9 (normally $29) sign up in the first few days of December 2014.

Who this course is for:

Aspiring watercolour painters.
Near beginners.
Anyone looking for creative time-out and leisure learning.