Section 3:
Hopefully you’re starting to feel a sense of confidence in your core skills, because now it’s time to start branching out into all the exciting ways you can create with watercolor. This section opens up your options quite a bit, giving you a chance to learn what excites you the most.
Section Three Overview
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Watercolor Negative Painting For Newbies
Welcome to Watercolor Negative Painting For Newbies! Join Shelby Abrahamsen as she breaks down a technique known as negative painting, where artists paint in the negative space of a composition rather than directly on the main subject. It might look hard, but Shelby will show you how it works with two quick, easy lessons. With practice, you'll find that it's an excellent tool to have in your watercolor skillset. To put all of your newfound negative painting skills to work, the course will conclude with two step-by-step projects. Project 1 focuses on directional negative painting, while Project 2 focuses on deep negative painting. Don't forget to submit your projects for personalized feedback!
How To Play, Experiment, & Plan With A Watercolor Sketchbook
Welcome to How To Play, Experiment, And Plan With A Watercolor Sketchbook! Over the last fifteen years, Shelby Abrahamsen has learned A LOT about working with watercolors. The most important lesson? Understanding the importance of just playing with her paints! There is so much possibility when it comes to painting loosely and experimenting with watercolors. In this course, Shelby will guide you through getting in the correct mindset, overcoming first-page fear, using your sketchbook to develop your confidence and style, and how to plan paintings with rough sketches and thumbnails. So stick around to see how a watercolor sketchbook can unlock your painting skills and launch you forward leaps and bounds!
Watercolor Lettering: Learn To Blend Colors And Letter Boldly With Watercolors
By themselves, lettering and watercoloring are two very lovely art forms. Put them together, and you have a dynamite combination that will create some truly stellar pieces. In this class, I’ll be sharing how you can harness this skill to make some lovely lettering. First, I’ll run through a quick lettering refresher before touching on basic color theory. Then I’ll demonstrate how to control water and pigment to achieve different effects before jumping into showing you two very different lettering styles. Finally, we’ll create three gorgeous lettering projects together, starting with a simple project and working our way to lettering with all the colors of the rainbow. By the time the course is over, you’ll have the skills to create a huge array of colors, forms, and styles that will leave you feeling like a lettering champ.
Monochrome Watercolor Painting: Master Value And Tone With One Color
Monochrome art is eye-catching and unique because it uses a single color to illustrate an entire piece. Best of all, when you explore a color’s full range of tonal values—from the brightest tones to the darkest tones—you enhance your painting by creating greater depth and dimension. But many watercolorists aren’t sure how to build up values to create such bold visual contrast. As a result, their paintings often look flat and rather dull. Fortunately, this course walks you step-by-step through four monochrome projects that each focus on mastering a different color’s range of tonal values—that means you don’t have to worry about juggling multiple pigments in one painting!
Roll For Inspiration: A Dice Drawing Creative Exercise
It can be tough to come up with ideas for your art. Sometimes you can’t think of anything at all, while other times you might feel like you need something new and fresh to push your creative boundaries. Enter Roll for Inspiration! This fun, easy, and adaptable dice drawing game is the perfect way to explore new themes, styles, and subjects in your art. The random tables can help you come up with all kinds of unorthodox ideas that could become your next masterpiece. In this course, I’ll show you how this dice drawing game works and how it can help you create something incredible. From the first steps all the way to the final piece, I’ll walk you through using the tables, tweaking them to fit your needs, and using references to help you grow. You’ll also get to see me take a fresh idea from start to finish.
Intuitive Art: Loosen Up And Break Creative Block
Whether you’ve been making art all your life or you just started trying your hand at drawing for the first time, it’s easy to get stuck with your art. You can feel hesitant about drawing your ideas or simply not have any inspiration to get you started! The best thing you can do to break out of this rut is to take art less seriously and just make something. In this course, you’ll learn how intuitive art will allow you to get your hand moving and your creative gears turning. I’ll explain this technique in detail, showing you why it works and how to do it yourself. In addition, I’ll give you 13 easy tips for filling up your page without too much fuss. Finally, I’ll show you these techniques in action, showing you how to sidestep inspiration and just get to the good part – making art!
Watercolor Textures: 13 Unique Techniques Using Household Items
Nothing elevates a painting quite like an extra kick of texture, and watercolor is perfect for creating a textured look. It doesn’t matter if you’re an experienced painter or you’re just taking your first steps – adding texture can be a fun and easy step that gives so much life to your art. Whether you’re aiming for something subtle or bold, you can find something that will be sure to excite in this course! You’ll learn 13 textures using household materials, with each texture getting its own video to fully explain the technique. Then paint along with me for two texture-packed projects to help you learn how to apply the techniques to actual paintings!
Paint The Page: Dive Into Watercolor Journaling With Confidence
Journaling can be an enormously rewarding experience regardless of the type of journaling you do. Whether you use your journal for planning, tracking, recording, or simply as a creative outlet, adding watercolor can kick your practice up to the next level. Watercolors provide endless creative opportunities, but many are nervous to try it. In this course, I’ll lay out everything you need to take on watercolor journaling without fear. I’ll give you a deep dive into the materials that you need, my recommendations, and how to choose the supplies that are right for your skill and budget. Then I will show you how to combat perfectionism and be willing to make mistakes as you learn and grow. After that, I’ll explain my whole page planning process from the penciling to the painting, explain the basics of the bullet journal, then finally show you eight beginner-friendly watercolor techniques. At last, we’ll dive into three watercolor journaling projects that you can create right alongside me to help build your confidence and skill.
Painting Watercolor Galaxies: How To Create Epic Celestial Scenes
Take your painting to the stars with watercolor galaxies! This technique looks stellar when complete, but it doesn’t require a ton of effort or skill to create the final look. In this course, I’ll show you just how easy it is to create stunning celestial bodies with only a few layers of paint. I’ll take you through all the supplies you need for creating your own watercolor galaxies before walking you through each step of the painting process. Then we’ll create two projects from start to finish using all the techniques from the lessons. Once you get a feel for this process, you’ll want to start adding these heavenly bodies to your work left and right!
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