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Welcome to Watercolor Foundation Skills - Level 1
Welcome to Watercolour
About your payment
What to expect in this course
About Instructor Jenny
All about your equipment.
The BEST and CHEAPEST way to buy the best paint
Your Equipment List
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 (43:10)
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)
TIME to LOOSEN UP!
Class Notes and more
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
NBW Painting Class Group - your exclusive door to questions and feedback
Your feedback
Your world of watercolour - links and resources.
What's next
Refer a friend and each earn a 15% reward - that's $51 on a Level course!
THE PAINT SHOP - The cheapest way to buy W&N paint. (and lots of other stuff)
Your End of Level Quiz - Level UP!
NBW Painting Class Group - your exclusive door to questions and feedback
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