
Learn to create your own collection of watercolor artwork from start to finish with easy steps and clear instructions. Geraldine guides beginners through watercolor, acrylic, and mixed media basics.
Explore essential watercolor supplies for beginners, including hot press or cold press paper (200 gsm min), a palette, rag, size 11 brush, tubes or pens, and optional gold leaf.
Mix reduced Prussian blue, carillon blue, violet, and lemon yellow to build your watercolor palette, then control water and layer color for highlights and texture.
Apply pen detail to a watercolor kettle by outlining the body, spout, and top hat with basic lines and rectangles, then add shadows using tape as a guide.
Design a watercolor leaf motif for beginners by creating a light wash, mixing turquoise shadows with Prussian blue and burnt umber, and building a three-dot leaf pattern across the page.
Mix a shadow color with Prussian blue, black, and blue, apply downward shading to the spouts, blend softly, then add yellow highlights to leaves.
Apply vertical lines and leaves with brown and black shading, refine edges, maintain color consistency, then remove tape and sign the watercolor piece.
Learn to sketch a whimsical kettle by setting guidelines, forming an oval body with a lid, spout, and looped handle, then refine with erasing and darkening lines.
Use masking fluid to reserve white flower shapes at the bottom, create small bases and petals, then paint over and remove the masking once dry.
Learn beginner watercolor painting by building a kettle illustration with yellow ochre, lemon yellow, burnt umber, and brown, adding green accents and masking fluid for shading and depth.
Learn precise pen detailing in watercolor by removing masking fluid, adding fine lines, leaves, and flowers, applying subtle shadows, and finishing with signing and tape removal.
Draw a kettle in portrait by starting with a middle line, shaping a tall, rounded body, adding a handle and short spout, then erase guidelines.
Begin with a first wash base layer for the watercolor kettle, mix reds like rose, crimson, vermillion with lemon yellow for highlights and shading.
Practice loose, outward and inward line work to sketch a whimsical kettle shape, add sprout and handle details, then refine with additional lines and final touches.
Mix blue with brown to deepen tones, sketch simple leaves and a kettle handle and spout, then layer red and brown with water to build soft shadows.
Add subtle watercolor detail to circles and leaves, exploring organic shapes and partial patterns for depth. Remove tape carefully, consider light splashes, and sign the finished piece.
discover how to add gold leaf to watercolor elements using glue, small brushes, tweezers, and a fan brush, including leaves and circles, then press and dry for a glossy finish.
Learn finishing touches in watercolor painting for beginner, applying gold leaf with a fan brush to kettles for delicate gilded accents. Keep it tidy and reuse gold pieces for charm.
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This course is designed for anyone who wants to expand their creativity and knowledge on watercolor art from an artist with many years of experience in the fine art industry.
This course in intended for beginner to intermediate students, but even advanced students looking to practice with a relaxed pace, will learn something from this course too.
In this course we will focus on how to use Wet on Wet technique, working with Masking Fluid and gold leaf to achieve a set of beautiful kettle collection artworks.
This course is a set of 3 paintings in the same style for a few reasons
- Getting to practice the same concept more then once will get you comfortable with the medium, style and object.
- With each painting we learn from it and do even better on the next.
- Having a collection of artwork in the same style makes for beautiful décor and is a great gift too.
In this course we will not only learn the dynamics to watercolor art but by the end of this course you would have created your own set of watercolor Kettle paintings, consisting of 3 different and unique Kettle subjects, yet still maintaining the style of design to make them cohesive as a collection.
I look forward to painting with you soon! :)