SMOOTH Watercolor Painting | By Award Winning Artist

Embrace the challenge to accelerate your learning throughout this course.

Effortlessly transfer your template onto watercolor paper using a simple technique you can learn and do, in less than 5 minutes!

If you've completed your painting and wish to share or ask questions, please upload them here!

This is your chance to critique a demonstration and train your ability to see where patchiness begins. Even if you don't have any experience, I encourage you to watch it and make your best educated guesses. You'll need a pen and paper for this one!

Let's compare notes as you gain more insights and clarity as I discuss and point out the origins of patchiness in watercolor painting.

Allow me to distill everything discussed in the previous lesson into three major things, in order to achieve flawless, patch-free watercolor paintings!

Do you remember what those three things are again? Not to worry. You don't need to. They all can be summed up into 1 easy exercise.

Now let me show you how these three pieces come together to form the secret behind Patch Free painting!

In this lesson, you will learn the first thing you need to do before putting brush to paper. 

Download the handout for more tips to help you get through the activity.

Now you know about Strengths and the Bead, let's put it all together.

Let me "fix" all the patchiness from the first demonstration by showing you how to use the Strengths to prepare, and the Bead technique to paint with, in this next exercise.

In this next video, you will learn how to paint darker still using the Strengths and the Bead.   

Remember, it's not WHAT you're painting that counts. It's HOW.

Before we dive into the final activities, let me give you some reminders based on real life issues so you know what to watch out for.

What makes paint go "up" your wash? Click on the video and be in the know!

I've seen this issue time and time again with students.  Whether you've got your heater on inside your studio or if you just live in hotter climates, this first tip is what you need to keep in mind. 

Even with the right technique, this next issue will surely make patch-free painting impossible to achieve.

Let's start easy and I'll bring you gradually up to patch-free level of painting with this first activity!

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Let's start with an easy wash. We only have 1 goal, which is to paint Patch-Free and nothing else!

Let's practice our puddle mixing, this time with some color.

This just like doing a wash, only this time it will be a second application.

Don't rush these now just because they're small shapes. Use the technique you learned. Follow the process.

Don't rush these now just because they're small shapes. Use the technique you learned. Follow the process.

We are done! Stay with this activity for as long as you need to and move on to the next when you feel you've nailed this!

Download this handout for more helpful reminders and tips to get you through this activity.

If you've completed your painting and wish to share or ask questions, please upload them here!

Are you ready to have more fun with a different activity and colors to paint with?

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Let's start easy once again, painting the parts of this bird that have the same color.

It's the same process, but this time, with a different color.

Now let's do a bit of glazing to darken it's face!

Let's see how we can apply the techniques we've learned on these different shapes while keeping it PATCH-FREE.

The bird is coming to life now, and let's concentrate our efforts on some color mixing by using up our leftover puddle to mix up a brown.

Now for the fish! Even if it's a small shape, keep the Strengths and Bead in mind.

Don't rush these now just because they're small shapes. Use the technique you learned. Follow the process.

We are done! Stay with this activity for as long as you need to and move on to the next when you feel you've nailed this!

Download this handout for more helpful reminders and tips to get you through this activity.

If you've completed your painting and wish to share or ask questions, please upload them here!

Welcome to the last activity! And this time we will put EVERYTHING we learned into one painting.

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Now that you are familiar with the bead, the wash and glazing, let's come back to a bit more "negative painting" to practice on!

We will paint all 4 fins at the same time and each fin will have a different shape. Let's see how we can manage this and still paint PATCH-FREE.

In the next few lessons, we will rely on glazing to complete the fish.

In the next few lessons, we will rely on glazing to complete the fish.

In the next few lessons, we will rely on glazing to complete the fish.

Don't rush these now just because they're small shapes. Use the technique you learned. Follow the process.

We are done! Stay with this activity for as long as you need to and move on to the next Challenge whenever you are ready!

Download this handout for more helpful reminders and tips to get you through this activity.

If you've completed your painting and wish to share or ask questions, please upload them here!

This is a challenge to see how far you can go on your own!

Download this template and transfer it to your watercolor paper

If you've completed your painting and wish to share or ask questions, please upload them here!

Download only if you get stuck