Course Description

I believe that anyone can have fun and success with watercolor. With a very easy approach you will learn all the basic ways to handle watercolor, gradually leading up to how to create a painting. Sign up for this online class: beginning watercolor and discover how great watercolor is!

You will get:

  • Immediate access to all content, for one year.
  • 66 Videos/ 11 hours of instruction broken into short segments so you can paint along.

  • 94 pages of downloadable pdfs with detailed instructions on each topic, color charts, and reference photos so you can work from the same photo I am.

Course Content

  • 1- All About Paper, Brushes & Palettes:
    Learn about what is out there, what each is good for, and how to choose what best suits your interests.
  • 2- All About Paint
    An in depth look at student grade vs professional grade paint, staining, lightfastness, granulation and transparency and why it helps to know all this when you go to choose your paint colors. How to layout paints in your palette and work with paint tubes to get the maximum paint possible.
  • 3- Getting Started & Mixing Colors
    How to set up your painting area for both left and right handed painters. Discover how to control the amount of paint and water on your brush. Learn how to paint two color wheels-with 3 and 6 primary colors, how to mix luscious greens, purples and earth colors and how to avoid dull and muddy colors.
  • 4- Wet into Wet Techniques
    Discover several ways to work with wet into wet techniques to make a leaf, a strawberry and two pears. Start small and easy and work up in complexity.
  • 5- Washes, Dry brush, Drip & Scrape Techniques
    Learn the secret to non-streaky washes, how and when to use dry brush and how to build an entire outdoor scene with these plus drip and scrape techniques.
  • 6- Painting with Glazes
    See a whole new way to paint using glazes-tarting small and then building to a whole painting.
  • 7- Lifting and Masking Techniques
    Gain control of your paint-how to create crisp and soft edges, how to remove excess paint or water, how to create highlights, and how to work with masking techniques.
  • 8- How to approach a Painting from Beginning to End
    An in depth look at how to decide what order to paint things in. Paint along with me to create a whole painting--working from the same photo I am (photo is a downloadable pdf).
  • 9- All About Composition, and How to Simplify a Busy Photo
    An in depth look at several classic paintings and why they have strong compositions and how to use the same secrets in your own work. Next learn how to simplify a busy photo to create an engaging composition. Paint along with me working from the same photo and make your own decisions (photo is a downloadable pdf).
  • 10- Getting Unstuck, Finding Your Style, & How to Combine 3 Photos into 1 Painting
    We all get stuck at some point. Here are my tricks for keeping up the fun in painting and what to do when you don't know what to do! My thoughts on how we find our own styles. Plus often we can't capture our subject in just one photo-find out how to take the best from several photos and combine them into one painting.
  • View videos in regular or HD.
  • Refunds are not available.
  • High speed internet connection recommended, basic computer skills required.

Artist & Art Teacher

Liesel Lund

Liesel Lund is a full time artist who loves to teach and share her passion for art and the creative process. Her colorful past includes a long art education, Peace Corps in Thailand, designing graphics for Woodland Park Zoo, children’s books for McGraw-Hill, and textiles for Tommy Bahama. These days you can find her in her studio, spoiling her kitties and drinking large cups of tea while she works with watercolor, acrylics, fibers, jewelry, and art journals. She teaches adult art classes on art journaling, mixed media, and watercolor painting at local art stores and at art retreats around the U.S. She is a featured artist in Creative Wildfire by LK Ludwig, Cloth, Paper, Scissors March 2015 , and Drawing Lab for Mixed Media Artists by Carla Sonheim.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Overview

    • Welcome!!

    • How This Class Works

    • Get Your Materials

    • PDF- Liesel's Recommended Watercolor Supplies

    • JBW Promo
  • 2

    1-Paper, Brushes & Palettes

    • All About Watercolor Paper

    • Cold Press vs Hot Press Paper

    • All About Palettes

    • All About Brushes

    • PDF: Paper, Palettes, Brushes
  • 3

    2- All About Paint

    • All About Paint

    • Student & Artist Grade Paint

    • All About Paint

    • Paint- Extra Curricular

    • Paint Tubes

    • Putting Paint in Your Palette

    • PDF- All About Paint

    • PDF- Daniel Smith Watercolor Chart

    • PDF- MSDS Sheet, Daniel Smith

    • PDF- Liesel's Color Swatches-Daniel Smith Watercolors
  • 4

    3- Getting Started & Color Mixing

    • Getting Started & Color Mixing

    • PDF- All About Color Mixing

    • How to Set Up Your Paint Area

    • How Much Paint to Water Ratio?

    • Paint Along: Color Wheel from 3 Colors

    • Paint Along: Color Wheel 2: Warm & Cool Primaries

    • Mixing On the Paper with Mickey Mouse

    • The Secret to Clean Mixes

    • Paint Along: Mixing Purples & Greens Stripes

    • Paint Along: Seaweed Blobs

    • Note

    • Paint Along: Mixing Luscious Neutrals

    • PDF- Liesel's Color Mixes 1

    • PDF- Liesel's Color Mixes 2

    • PDF- LIesel's Color Mixes 3

    • PDF- Liesel's Color Mixes 4
  • 5

    4- Wet into Wet

    • Wet into Wet

    • Rhody Leaf - Part 1

    • Rhody Leaf - Part 2

    • Maple Leaf - Part 1

    • Maple Leaf - Part 2

    • Strawberry - Part 1

    • Strawberry - Part 2

    • Strawberry - Part 3

    • Strawberry - Part 4

    • Pears - Part 1

    • Pears - Part 2

    • Pears - Part 3

    • PDF- Wet into Wet
  • 6

    5- Washes, Dry Brush, Drip & Scrape

    • Paint Along: 7 New Techniques

    • Solid Wash, Graduated Wash, & Clouds

    • Dry Brush

    • Drip, Pour, Scrape

    • Planting A Tree (in your painting)

    • Finished Paintings

    • PDF- Washes, Dry Brush, Drip & Scrape
  • 7

    6- Painting with Glazes

    • Painting with Glazes

    • Intro

    • Glazed and Amazed Leaf

    • Glazed and Amazed Pear

    • Kitty Intermission (for cat lovers)

    • Glazing a Whole Painting

    • Boat Photo to Download for Sketching

    • Glazed Fishing Boat- FAST

    • Glazed Fishing Boat part 1

    • Glazed Fishing Boat part 2
  • 8

    7- Lifting & Masking Techniques

    • Intro

    • PDF- Masking and Lifting

    • Lifting Extra Paint & Edges

    • Lifting Highlights

    • Lifting Leaf Veins

    • Masking Fluid Pen

    • Simple Flower with Masking Fluid Pen

    • Dahlia, part 1

    • Dahlia, part 2

    • Dahlia, part 3

    • Dahlia, part 4

    • Dahlia, part 5

    • Leaf - D.S. Masking Fluid
  • 9

    8- Creating a Painting, from beginning to end

    • Intro

    • PDF- Making a Painting from Beginning to End

    • Download Photo for Paint Along

    • Getting Started: How to Transfer Your Image

    • Where to Begin?

    • Building One Section at a Time, part 1

    • Building One Section at a Time, part 2

    • Finishing Touches
  • 10

    9- All About Composition

    • Intro

    • PDF- All About Composition, part 1

    • PDF- All About Composition, part 2

    • Download Photo for Paint Along

    • Cropping & Framing

    • Simplify a Busy Photo

    • Drawing the Flying Fish Vendors

    • Painting the Flying Fish Vendors, part 1

    • Painting the Flying Fish Vendors, part 2

    • Painting the Flying Fish Vendors, part 3
  • 11

    10- Combining photos, Getting unstuck, & Finding your style

    • Intro

    • PDF- Getting Unstuck & Finding Your Style

    • PDF- Download Photos for Paint Along

    • How to Merge 3 Photos to Make 1 Sketch

    • Transferring and Painting

    • Painting a Garden, Part 1

    • Painting a Garden, Part 2

    • Painting a Garden, Part 3

    • Painting a Garden, Part 4

    • Last Note

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