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Welcome to Watercolor for Absolute Beginners - Level 1
Welcome to Watercolour
About your payment
What to expect in this course
About Instructor Jenny
Resources - Equipment List.
The BEST and CHEAPEST way to buy the best paint
What YOU can do to enhance your learning experience
How to get feedback when you need it.
Class 1 - Introduction to Equipment, How to apply paint, and first paintings!
Intro: Just like learning a language.... (0:47)
Not just Any Old paper (13:16)
EXERCISE: What's first - the water or the paint? How to get paint on the brush. (16:54)
EXERCISE: One colour - many tones - with water. (9:58)
Your Brush - an investment in enjoyment. (14:20)
Your Palette - full of promise. (18:45)
EXERCISE: The Beauty Spots of watercolour (13:33)
Your Paint - everything you didn't know.
PAINTING: Tulips (15:36)
Feedback
Class Notes and more
Class 2 - First colour mixing, Washes, Test Strips and more.
Your PAINTING TIME.
Intro: Why these three colours? (6:14)
EXERCISE: Primaries and mixing secondaries...but that's not all.... (7:31)
PAINTING: Pear of many colours (16:26)
A little thing is a big thing - your water. (5:26)
EXERCISE: Flat Wash (8:57)
EXERCISE: Graded Wash (5:13)
EXERCISE: Variegated Wash (3:53)
Drying your work - Hairdrying How To.
PAINTING: Citiscape (30:21)
Class Notes and more
Class 3 - Wet into Wet introduction, Charging, Soft and hard edges.
Intro: Tons to do and what you'll need
What is Wet into Wet? (4:51)
EXERCISE - Many styles of Wet into Wet - lets discover some (11:24)
PAINTING - Trees on a soft wet into wet background (14:45)
EXERCISE - Charge! Painting Gum Leaves. (9:46)
To wet the paper or NOT to wet the paper? That is the question. (4:17)
PAINTING - Simple Waterscape with reflections (16:51)
Take the plunge - SQUEEZE out those tubes
Class Notes and more
Class 4 - Fail to plan ....and you plan to fail. Bring on the thumbnail!
Intro: to planning and tonal sketching
So you love art books? Which watercolour books to buy. (5:35)
EXERCISE: Manually softening edges to give the 3D illusion (15:55)
What is a Thumbnail Sketch? (2:40)
The Rule of Thirds
Test Strips. What they are and What they're for. (4:02)
The beauty and benefit of Monochrome.
EXERCISE - set up your own simple still life - Pear.
EXERCISE - planning and drawing your own thumbnail sketch (12:00)
PAINTING - Still Life Sienna Pear (19:37)
The Flounder Zone - whaaat? (2:26)
Class Notes and more
Class 5 - the No Brainer Class - Just fun - Just painting.
The Super Easy, No Brainer, WORKSHOP - Roses, Avocado, Potplant, Eucalyptus leaves (43:13)
Paint - bulletin
Class 6 - 4 x Small Bites - Water, Mixtures, Mud, Layers
Quiz
Intro: 4 Bites.
How does Water affect your painting?
EXERCISE - How wet is your paint mixture? (6:14)
EXERCISE - How wet is your paper? (6:18)
EXERCISE - simple wet into wet scene (9:25)
Playing with mud. (4:48)
EXERCISE - Rainbow Mug. (5:57)
Painting in 3 Layers - what's that all about?
PAINTING - Tube of paint in 3 Layers (15:17)
New Mini Easy Watercolour Workshop Available (0:25)
Class notes and more
Class 7 - Love that Drybrush
Intro: Bright Ideas
Focus! Your centre of attention. (1:50)
Welcome to the DryBrush Technique
EXERCISE - Brushing in texture (15:57)
PAINTING - Seascape with Drybrush (26:36)
Class Notes and more
TIME to LOOSEN UP!
Class 8 - Softening Edges in Depth.
Intro - Desperately Seeking Softness
The Elephant in the room (and his cauliflowers)
EXERCISE - All your soft edges (11:09)
EXERCISE- How to blend wet edges (11:59)
EXERCISE - soft edges in nature (3:25)
PAINTING - The Roundness of Fruit (2:16)
Class notes and more
Class 9 - A Landscape Classic - Aerial perspective
Intro: Fun Facts
Get it in perspective (9:47)
Warm and Cool - What you THOUGHT you knew...
Take the Temperature Quiz
EXERCISES - Aerial perspective - Basic Stripes (14:38)
PAINTING - Little Aussie Landscape (25:57)
Class Notes and more
Class 10 - Watercolour Special Effects
Intro: Abstract effects
EXERCISES: wax resist & blowing (7:36)
EXERCISES: clingwrap & splatter (5:49)
EXERCISES: Rice (2:00)
EXERCISES: Alcohol (4:00)
PAINTING: Pretty Pebbles (29:56)
Class Notes and more
But wait....there's MORE!
Course recap
W2W Watercolour Painting Group - your exclusive door to questions and feedback
Your feedback
Your world of watercolour - links and resources.
What's next
THE NEW PAINT SHOP - The cheapest way to buy W&N paint. (and lots of other stuff)
Your End of Level Quiz - Level UP!
EXERCISE- How to blend wet edges
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