Getting started with any new painting medium can be intimidating and overwhelming for anyone.
The vast sea of information out there can make things even more confusing and can take us down rabbit holes that make us waste time we could be spending actually moving our skills forward.
This course includes everything you need to know as a beginner getting started with watercolor, in one neat package. All of the must-know topics and must-do exercises are included, which will provide a solid foundation to jump off from. Not to mention, you won’t spend money on supplies that you don’t really need as a beginner watercolor artist.
✱ What You’ll Learn:
- Must-have watercolor painting supplies
- The characteristics that set watercolors apart from other painting mediums
- Everything you need to know about watercolor paint formats
- Everything you need to know about watercolor paper types
- Everything you need to know about watercolor brushes
- The main brush strokes to practice
- The 3 basic watercolor washes to practice
- Must-know techniques
- How to transfer your pencil sketches onto watercolor paper
- Stretching watercolor paper
✱ Supplies you’ll need:
Though I do bring in a few extra supplies to explain about certain techniques and stretching watercolor paper, only basic watercolor painting supplies are really needed to follow along.
- Watercolor paint set
- Watercolor paper
- Watercolor brushes
- Backing board
- Paint mixing palette
- Pencil (I use an HB and a 2B in this course)
- Erasers (soft drawing eraser and kneaded eraser)
- Masking tape, artist tape or washi tape
- Water container
- Water spritzer (I use an old, emptied-out, cheap perfume bottle)
- Absorbent towel or regular kitchen paper towels
- Optional: Black Sharpie or pen, masking fluid, toothpicks, salt, tracing paper, extra pieces of watercolor paper to test out color/transparency
