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Watercolor Painting Techniques and Follow Along Projects
Rating: 5.0 out of 5(1 rating)
19 students
Created byRitu Verma
Last updated 6/2021
English

What you'll learn

  • Basics of Water colors
  • Characteristics and properties of Watercolor
  • Techniques and Applications of Watercolors
  • Making realistic projects with watercolors

Course content

4 sections • 26 lectures • 4h 57m total length

  • How to follow this course2:03
  • Course Overview4:11

    Learn watercolor techniques from basic washes to creative textures, then apply skills in five guided projects with practical brushwork, color mixing, nature-inspired subjects, and downloadable resources.

  • What are watercolors5:42

    Understand what watercolors are, with pigments and water-soluble binders that govern transparency and color behavior. Explore staining versus non-staining, granulation versus non-granulation, and fugitive versus non-fugitive colors under environmental conditions.

  • Materials Requirement3:23

    Discover essential watercolor materials, from smooth versus textured paper to a basic kit of paints in three forms, plus brushes, water containers, masking tape, paper towels, and a multi-compartment palette.

  • Know Your Palette8:37

    Know your palette by building a labeled shade jacket and mapping 24 color squares on a four-by-six grid, using masking tape to keep edges in place.

  • DIlution Chart7:30

    Explore dilution in watercolor by adding water to pigments to achieve light to dark values, demonstrated with circular swatches. Learn to manage clean water, pigment ratios, and brush control to create varied hues.

  • Shade Chart28:39

    Explore creating a shade chart by mixing limited colors into an 8×8 grid of 64 shades, and use it as a watercolor palette reference, avoiding pure black and white.

Requirements

  • General interest in learning watercolors
  • Basic watercolor materials

Description

Greetings everyone, welcome to my course on watercolors. In this course, we will start all the way from the basic theory of what is watercolors and the fundamental properties of watercolors. After clearing the core concepts we shall go through the technique of how you can merge colors and various tools you can use to create stunning effects.

Upon learning the theory and practicing the fundamentals we shall draw all along multiple paintings , this will help get an undersanding on how to approach a new painting. We shall see how to sketch the painting then paint along. I have also provided the sketches that can be used for tracing on the paper.

This entire is structured into 4 sections , starting from the introduction sections explaing the theory of watercolors , then the basic techniques which teaches how to mix colors together , moving on to detailed technique which uses household items to create more create patterns and finally the project section that shows the application of all the previous sections.

This course is designed for begineers to intermediate students, therefore, do not worry if you have never worked with watercolors or any other paints earlier. I am sure you will learn a lot and have fun creating watercolor paintings.

Who this course is for:

  • Beginners to intermediate
  • People interested in the techniques and implementation

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