Watercolor Painting Projects For Beginners
What you'll learn
- Paint a variety of subjects with step by step guidance
- Learn watercolor painting techniques as you practice
- How to use paint wet-in-wet and wet on dry
- How to mix paint colors and apply paint to paper
- How to build a painting step by step
- How to create a sense of 3D form when painting an object
- How to create a sense of depth when painting a landscape
Requirements
- An interest in learning how to use watercolor paint
- Basic watercolor painting supplies including paints, brushes, watercolor paper
Description
If you're a beginner who is feeling stuck with watercolor painting then this is the course for you. I'll take you through six simple watercolor paintings designed to help you improve your watercolor skills through practice.
As we go along I'll give you tips and advice on color mixing, blending colors wet-in-wet, how to start and build a watercolor painting, creating textures, how to mix black and how to add realistic looking shadows.
Each of the six projects is designed for you to paint along with me but feel free to make each painting your own as you experiment with mixing colours and applying paint. Each painting tutorial builds on the one before it, starting from the most simple and moving to more complex subjects.
Projects include:
1. Leaf Motif - basic wet in wet and wet on dry techniques
2. Seas & Skies - creating a mood with color and technique
3. Headland - create distance in a landscape
4. Green Pear - create the illusion of 3D form
5. Sunset Skies - Blend colors wet in wet and how to mix black
6. Lily - a floral study
This course is suitable for people with basic watercolor experience, or for those with no experience at all if you are willing to dive right in and give it a go! If you have worked with watercolor before you may like to choose which painting you start with. If you are a beginner I recommend starting from the first painting and working through to the last painting.
I hope you'll join me for some relaxing watercolor practice time!
Emily
Who this course is for:
- Beginner art students interested in learning how to paint
- Students who prefer to learn through practical painting projects
Instructor
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 755 Reviews
- 3,966 Students
- 6 Courses
Hi, I'm Emily, I'm an artist and an art teacher. After finishing a Masters of Art & Design I returned to the simple joy of putting pencil to paper and just drawing. Since then drawing has become my passion as both an expressive art form and an enjoyable and mindful practice. In 2017, after 7 years of teaching art at university level I started my own school, The Pencil Room, where I teach drawing and painting classes and workshops. From here I developed The Pencil Room Online, to share my classes in a suitable format for online learning.
My approach to teaching drawing is to give my students the skills to draw anything they choose, rather than teaching the steps to drawing just one type of subject. My focus is on changing the way you look at what you see so that you perceive it in a way that can be translated onto paper. Once you can do this, you can draw anything with time and practice.
I love the simplicity of drawing and I value doodling from the imagination as much as realistic drawing. Art doesn't need to be serious, it can be simple and playful. Making art can be fun, challenging and therapeutic and it can change the way you see the world.
Happy Drawing!
Emily
Master Art & Design