This Online Watercolor Course is a 6-week long program of learning watercolor techniques including 60 video lessons specifically designed for beginners. The course has been developed by watercolor professionals and e-learning methodologists. Over 30 000 people around the world have already benefited from participating in this course.
Course Overview
The course is designed in such a way that you do not merely just copy a photo reference, but rather allows you to develop a deeper understanding of watercolor methods and techniques. All you need to do is simply watch a video, follow the teacher's instructions, take a photo of your work, and upload it onto the website.
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Teaching Methods
This course is organized using a step-by step, “simple-to-complex” process. For this reason, even if you have never held a brush in your hand, you will learn to paint as if you have been practicing for years.
ART supplies AND MATERIALS
- Composition of paints, pigments, and their properties
- Watercolor palettes
- The required set of basic brushes
- Squirrel brush for basic techniques
- Flat brushes, calligraphy brushes
- Fan brush, angle brush, and special brushes
- Liner brushes
- Testing watercolor brushes
- Overview and testing of the different types of paper
- Blocks, pads, rolls, and sheets
- How to choose the right paper
- How to stretch watercolor paper on a board
- You will learn everything about the drawing materials, the purposes they serve and what properties are important.
II. Watercolour Exercises
- Preparing your workspace to paint
- Watercolor mixing chart
- Transparency and opacity test
- Staining and non-staining test
- Washing techniques
- Filling shapes and figures with paint
- Drawing ice cream by using the wash techniques
- Transparency of watercolor: Flowers
- “Blot-flowers”
- Practicing the “blot-flowers” technique
- Bird: Wash technique for an ornate shape
- “The secret brush”
- An experimental tree
You will learn basic watercolor techniques and work your way up to a more advanced level of painting.
III. Coloristics and color theory
- Value scale and judging values exercise
- Mountains in the fog
- Venice: Grisaille
- Still life: The basics of perspective
- A bold sketch: Carrot
- Itten’s Color Theory and color wheel
- Mixing warm and cool primary colors
- Creating your own palette, color matching exercise
- Color density: A practical exercise
- 3D tomato: Working with shapes and forms
You will learn how to add dimension, reflections, and various hues to your paintings.
IV. Advanced Painting
- Covering the main watercolor techniques
- Outline watercolor wash: Mill and a city
- Working with a liner brush: Chandelier
- Color schemes
- A full-color landscape of the Luxembourg Gardens
- The concept of looking at positive and negative spaces
- Working with a positive and a negative space
- Masking fluid
- Girl and the sea: Working with negative spaces
You will quickly be taught how to work with watercolors like a professional with an abundance of experience.
V. cOMBINING VARIOUS TECHNIQUES TOGETHER
- Black olives: The basics of botanical illustration
- An autumn landscape with accents
- Flower market: Painting an experimental still-life
- Sunlit road: Aerial perspective and the illusion of light
- Final assignment
You will practice applying and combining all the techniques that you have learnt during this course.
VI. Bonus Lessons
- Black olives: The basics of botanical illustration
- An autumn landscape with accents
- Flower market: Painting an experimental still-life
- Sunlit road: Aerial perspective and the illusion of light
- Final assignment
You will practice applying and combining all the techniques that you have learnt during this course.
Students’ works
These and many other artworks were created by the students who enrolled in our online course without any prior experience in painting. They successfully completed the online course and mastered working with watercolour. You can do it too!
Programme
Check out how detailed our classes are! Almost every lesson contains an assignment and the number of asterisks in the title indicates how much time might be required to complete it.
What you will learn in this course
1. How to select the correct materials: types of brushes, paint brands, paper, and color palettes.
2. How to paint beautiful washes while using the appropriate water-to-paint ratio.
3. How to apply various tricks like a pro – working with saturation, value, and color.
4. How to convert the theoretical knowledge acquired during this course into practice.
5. How to make even the simplest paintings look exciting and fresh.
6. How to select the best painting technique for a certain type of paper.
7. How to create intentional watercolor splashes, blobs, and drips.
8. How to convert your art ideas into a reality.
Course author and instructor
Veronika Kalacheva – the author of this online course
Illustrator & watercolor artist
Veronika graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical University in 2004 and qualified as a graphic artist. After graduating, she worked as a Commercial Illustrator. Today Veronika creates book and magazine illustrations for a few well-known publishing houses. In addition, since 2013 she has been focusing on leading online courses.
Veronika's artworks
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