Learn to Paint Watercolor for Beginners Class

Description

In this course, you will learn :

• How watercolor paints work with the water and so how to use them effectively.

• learn and understand the principle of a color wash.

• How layers of washes of the same color can create shape and shading.

• Students will be able to watercolor paint a three dimensional object.

• How to create highlights and shadows in watercolor paints.

• Through repetition the student will gain confidence with this medium.

• Start at the very beginning and understand the basics of color mixing.

Syllabus :

1. Follow one step at a time and enjoy learning to paint, I'll show you how.

• What this 'Play-cedure' is all About - it's about you having fun for yourself
• Here is what one student wrote about this course and posted it on her blog.
• Here is what you'll need, I've kept it simple.
• The really basic stuff about watercolor paints and how they work
• How much water and how much paint
• A short video about brushes.

 

2. Let's Start

• Start by Drawing a Very Simple Frame
• Let's Start Painting
• Paint What comes into Your Head

 

3. Some ideas to make your painting more interesting.

• Get Creative
• You Decide when it's Finished - not me, not your partner, you do
• Doodling or Meditation ?

 

4. Now Create your First Painting - it's playtime.

• Mixing Greens, a simple recipe because you make it as you want it
• Let's start at the beginning - A is for Apple
• Starting to Paint the Apple
• Adding Depth of Colour and the Shadow
• Finishing
• Now sketch the apple first
• So what have you discovered?

 

5. Let's Paint more Fruit - because it's fairly easy.

• Cherries
• Lemon

 

6. Let's paint a bowl to put the fruit in

• Create the bowl 
• How to imagine and draw the fruit in the bowl
• Painting the fruit in the bowl
• How to trace an image

 

7. Paint your own Greeting cards

• Starting with some ideas for Christmas cards.
• Christmas Card Idea - Fir Trees
• Other Christmas card ideas.
• Thanksgiving card idea
• The finished Thanksgiving card idea
• Snowman

 

8. Start to build your knowledge about watercolour painting

• What are Primary Colors Nicola? Reds and blues
• What are Primary Colors Nicola? Reds and yellows
• How light and how dark can you get your colours ?
• How translucent and staining are your colors/pigments
• Learn to look as well as to paint
• Build your knowledge about all things to do with watercolour painting
• Testimonials

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