Watercolor Painting | Secrets of a Free Flowing Watercolour.

Name: Watercolor Painting | Secrets of a Free Flowing Watercolour.
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I believe this course will assist you in creating free flowing watercolours and improve your painting skills.

Created byArie Swanepoel

Last updated 1/2021

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What you'll learn

What is important in creating free flowing watercolours.
The secrets to creating loose watercolours.
You will do valuable exercises to improve your skills in creating free flowing watercolours.
You will learn how to let go and be creative.
You will do a project: Paint with me - Field of Poppies.

Course content

4 sections • 13 lectures • 59m total length

Secrets to Creating Free Flowing watercolours1:53
Discover the secrets to creating loose, free-flowing watercolors that celebrate imagination, individuality, and a fearless mindset, avoiding restrictive pencil sketches to unlock your unique style.
Steps in creating loose watercolours.3:59
Observe the object carefully to decide on vital details and composition, then choose colors and light to create a free, creative, original loose watercolour painting.

Splashes of Colour Exercise 1 | Painting Nectarines - Part 1.9:36
Learn to create free-flowing color in watercolor by painting nectarines on 140 pound paper with four colors, applying a first wash, then lifting color and a second wash after drying.
Splashes of Colour Exercise 1 | Painting Nectarines - Part 2.5:06
Paint nectarines in a free flowing watercolor style using French ultramarine for shadows, blend colors, and create shape-driven edges in the second part of the exercise.
Splashes of Colour Exercise 1 | Painting Nectarines - Part 3.4:16
Shape the second nectarine with ultramarine blue and orange in this third part of the nectarines exercise, while exploring water flow and the limited palette for color harmony.

Splashes of Colour Exercise 2 | Painting a Sunflower - Part 1.2:38
Analyze your reference image to choose colors and shades for a simple sunflower, test pigments with a heavy pigment load and little water, and learn how water controls pigment flow.
Splashes of Colour Exercise 2 | Painting a Sunflower - Part 2.5:25
Paint the sunflower center using a heavy yellow mix, then blend yellow, orange, gold, and ultramarine to create shadows and flowing color transitions in a loose watercolour style.
Splashes of Colour Exercise 2 | Painting a Sunflower - Part 3.2:53
Develop an atmospheric sunflower painting with a first wash, promote color flow by spraying water, and lift color with a sponge, adding orange and greenish tones for stem and petals.
Splashes of Colour Exercise 2 | Painting a Sunflower - Part 4.5:21
Commit to practice and mood over detail in the sunflower painting; capture essence, paint half to let the viewer finish the picture, study the subject, use color to set atmosphere.

Paint With Me Project | Field Of Poppies - Part 1.4:34
Let go of control to let watercolor flow into a field of poppies, building a background around a church with wet-on-wet color, then refine with smaller brushes for detail.
Paint With Me Project | Field Of Poppies - Part 2.2:47
Discover a free-flowing watercolor field of poppies part 2 by using acrylic inks with water, lifting color, and dabbing whites with tissue to build greens.
Paint With Me Project | Field Of Poppies - Part 3.5:09
Paint With Me Project | Field Of Poppies - Part 4.5:57
Craft a vibrant free flowing watercolor of a field of poppies, guiding ink via water and salt, rescuing with tissue, then add details to trees, tower, windows, and fence posts.

Requirements

No previous experience needed but an open mind to loosen up and be creative.

Description

We are aiming to be original and creative artists and the way we use watercolours must be unique and creative. This course will assist many watercolorist to solve a specific problem I had in the beginning of my painting career, and that is that my painting were to tight and lack freedom and transparency and sometimes ended in mud by using too many layers of colours. One of the most prominent elements of my work is the loose free flowing technique used on almost all my painting. So I made it a point in this course to really concentrate on my loose free flowing technique which is one of the secrets of my art work. I have designed this course for anyone that wants to loosen up their watercolours and be creative and unique in their painting style. By the end of this course you will be able to identify and implement ways to paint loose. You will learn to paint without restrictions. You will learn how to paint with only a limited or no preliminary sketch at all. How to be creative and create unique results. I will be showing you what is important when creating free flowing watercolours. Not only will I show you my painting process but work with you step by step to show you the secrets to a free flowing watercolour.

Who this course is for:

This course is for beginners and intermediate level artists seeking to create loose watercolours.
Any artist who want to create free flowing watercolour paintings.

Watercolor Painting | Secrets of a Free Flowing Watercolour.

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Course content

Introduction2 lectures • 6min

Letting The Pigments Flow3 lectures • 19min

Pigment and Water Exercise4 lectures • 16min

Paint With Me Project | Field Of Poppies4 lectures • 18min

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