18 Watercolour Techniques Every Painter Needs to Know

Welcome to "18 Watercolour Techniques Every Painter Needs to Know"

Difficulty Level: Introductory

Welcome to "18 Watercolour Techniques Every Painter Needs to Know"

Blooming Botanicals: An Easy Step-by-Step Guide to Painting Watercolor Florals for Beginners

In this beginner's watercolour painting class, you will embark on a delightful journey into the world of botanical florals. Discover the joy of capturing the beauty and delicacy of flowers through the enchanting medium of watercolours. This step-by-step guide is designed to help you create breathtaking floral compositions that come to life on paper.

Watercolor Seascapes : an advanced class

Water is one of the most fascinating subjects to paint. If you follow the right steps it is the easiest to paint.

Intermediate Watercolor Techniques to Take your Art from Good to Great

In this class, you’ll learn a few of the best intermediate watercolor techniques to help transform your good paintings into GREAT paintings!

Clear Transparent Water With Shells And A Starfish, Mastering Drawing With Water Technique

What can be more wonderful than painting water with watercolor using “Drawing with water” technique? Just water, some pigments and a bit of magic.

Painting a White Subject in Watercolor: White Cockatoo

If you love painting in watercolour but are hesitant to try painting white subjects, in this class you’ll find some simple tips that will help to build your confidence.

Watercolor and Mixed Media

Welcome to my second Skillshare class! This class is aimed towards intermediate level watercolor users. If you are a beginner, please take my first class: Modern Watercolor Techniques for Beginners, as we will be referring to basic techniques throughout this class.

Here I will show you how to achieve great results painting in negative space, using either your pulse and precision skills, or masking fluid, as well as techniques for using white paint (ink or acrylics) over you watercolors.

I also demonstrate a variety of paintings I have created and explain why and how I used certain techniques.

I addition, we will dive into experimental watercolor even more, using different mediums and household supplies, including masking fluid, acetone (nail polish remover), thick grain salt… to name a few!

By the end of this class you will be able to complete an AMAZING watercolor illustration, using the various techniques we have learned. You will also begin to train your watercolor brain to think in layers and sections.

Happy to have you here!

Class Layout:

- Supplies

what are we using and how?

- Blocking Space

Using masking fluid vs negative space and when to use ink over watercolor

- Negative Space Exercise

- Masking Fluid Exercise

- Using Acrylic/Ink Over Watercolor

- Experimental Textures

- Cloud Practice

-Final Project (using all the techniques we learned)

- Painting Clouds

Capturing Grace: Painting A Dynamic Swallow Step-by-Step in Watercolor

In this class we'll step into the world of watercolour painting and learn how to capture the graceful beauty of a dynamic swallow. Watercolour is a versatile medium that allows you to create stunning effects and beautiful hues, making them perfect for bringing a Swallow to life on paper.

Watercolor Botanicals- from Flower to Painting the Easy Way

Learn to paint watercolour botanicals the easy way. In this class you will learn how to paint 3 different floral paintings using my signature invisible tracing technique. We will also learn other fun techniques like wet on wet, watercolour bleeds, transparency and wet on dry. By the end of the class you will have some beautiful paintings you have created yourself.

Watercolor by Design: The Designer's Guide to Watercolor Painting

In Watercolor by Design, students will be guided to create their own unique, watercolor painting inspired by nature. Through use of basic design fundamentals, students will create a beautiful composition while learning about watercolor basics—such as wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, and dry-on-dry brush techniques.