Watercolour Painting - Frequently Asked Questions
What you'll learn
- Learn some essential information about the materials and equipment.
- Learn about some basic skills and techniques.
- How to paint shadows.
- Understand colour values
- Learn how to move and lift your paint.
Requirements
- You will need some watercolour paints, watercolor paper, brushes and a pot of water.
Description
UPDATED 2022.
If you have just started painting with watercolour paints you probably have lots of questions.
And even if you have been painting for a while you may have the same question pop up in your head every time you paint.
So I thought I would put together a short course featuring some of the 'frequently asked questions' along with any videos, pictures or documents to help you out.
ABSOLUTE BEGINNER?
It can be baffling when you start something new and you are wading your way through different products at different prices. What do you really need and what can wait.
DO YOU GET THE SAME PROBLEM COME UP TIME AND AGAIN ?
You're happily working your way along and then something really strange happens or you trip over the same old stumbling block. Perhaps you can't get a colour dark enough or you put it in the wrong place and want to take it off. It can be frustrating.
A lot of the problems can only be overcome with experience and practice. However from my years of teaching on painting holidays, online and with my events 'ASK Nicola' I have gathered the ones that come up the most.
So here I am to answer them and offer some good basic advice.
Enjoy your painting, love Nicola.
Who this course is for:
- Everyone who is starting with watercolour paints.
- Also for those who have been painting but get repeat problems.
Instructor
![Nicola A Blakemore](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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Why choose one of my courses?
Because, as a self taught artist I understand how a lot of people feel about their creative work, sometimes anxious, sometimes overwhelmed and often that it's not 'good enough'.
Well I will hold your hand as you overcome these fears as I offer a friendly, relaxed and sensitive teaching style.
Do one of my courses and you will feel as if I am in the room with you every step of the way.
Here's a bit about me.
I originally trained as a graphic artist, and then followed a different career path working in the national media, travel and public relations in both London and Paris.
After sometime I returned to my creative roots full time, so to speak, and became a full time artist, teacher and creative entrepreneur.
The artist bit means I have worked in a variety of media, but am currently splashing about with watercolours. I love the magic they make when the pigments play with the water. And if you let them do their own thing, it's even better.
I have also painted murals in a child's bedroom or around a swimming pool, covering everything from fairies to Tuscan views. Painted furniture with decorative effects and designs and given walls specialist paint effects and stencils. All fun stuff for the discerning home owner
The teaching bit involved me teaching a 'Decorative Paint Effects' section of an interior design certificate course at Kidderminster College, Worcestershire, UK. Here they studied paint effects for walls and furniture, designing and cutting stencils, Period design elements and produced sample boards.
Then continuing the theme of teaching I have also tutored on many private workshops in the above subjects plus decoupage, gilding and trompe l'oeil (trick the eye painting).
Now, installed in the south of France I continue with all of the above but adding on-line courses to my creative portfolio. Flexibility is the name of the game in today's world
I have exhibited widely in the area.
Recently I was invited to plan and teach a creative summer school, offering a variety of artistic subjects, at one of the leading camping venues in the area. So, you never know some of these subjects might pop up as one of my courses on Udemy
I have had work featured in a national 'lifestyle' magazine and on BBC Radio 4 and Central TV in the UK