Watercolor for Beginners

Grasp the concept of pigment to water ratios when mixing your paint. Create a transparency chart as an exercise to understand how one tube of paint contains a scale of color ranging from a very light shade to a very dark one.

Learn the magic of mixing colors. We'll start with three simple colors and transform them into an earthy complex palette that will take your paintings from "crayon box" to professional.

Understand what a "wash" means? And how to use a solid, blending and pulling wash. This is watercolor 101 and is essential to advancing in your painting practice.

Once you start painting, you might get stuck, so let me answer your questions before you have them in this troubleshooting video. I'll explain blooms, bold outlines and blending different transparencies.

Kick it up a notch with these washes. Understanding these three techniques will allow you to add detail and dimension to your paintings.

Watercolor looks different once it's dried. Here we take a look at the previous washes once they've dried to fully understand the properties of paint vs water.

Use the wash techniques to create two simple and beautiful paintings. These are frame-worthy!

See all this amazing brush can do! Learn how to use pressure and angles to achieve an array of strokes.

Follow this exercise in precision painting to learn how to better control the brush. This exercise is worth it, it will teach you to paint with both confidence and control.

Now that you've learned how to control your brush, it's time to create a painting that builds off the techniques you've learned in this course. Plus, you'll learn how to frame your painting with tape. This painting is modern, clean and uses both controlled brush strokes and washes.

Let's take a look and talk about the brush strokes painting now that it's dry.

Learn how to tell when watercolor is dry. And now that the first layer has dried on the previous painting, you'll add the final touches of an additional layer of paint. This will complete layer painting 1.

Take your understanding of layers further by creating a second painting using this technique. This time, you'll be recreating plaid with an abstract composition.

Now that the first layer has dried on the previous painting, you'll add the final touches of an additional layer of paint. This will complete layer painting 2.

Watercolor always looks different when it's dry, so take a look at the two layer paintings after the paint has set. Plus, receive some encouragement has you've completed the course and begin your painting practice at home!