Start painting in watercolors with this easy guide to the basic techniques. All you need to paint your first pictures.

What you'll learn
​At the end of the course you will have learned all the basics of watercolor painting, and you will have created two amazing paintings in watercolors.
Requirements
There is a short list of materials you will need included in the course. You can watch the video about materials free by clicking on the PREVIEW button on the course curriculum below.
Description
The course is for anyone who wants to learn to paint in watercolors but who does not know where to begin. At the start of the course I will show you what materials you will need, and how to set up a palette with colors. I keep these materials to a bare minimum so that it won't cost you the earth! There is then an exercise in mixing paint with water that will teach you how to get dark and light shades of the same color. Next you will learn how to lay down a flat wash and a wet-in-wet wash of color. These are things that you will do in all your paintings in the future and so are important to learn right from the start. At this stage we put all this together into an abstract painting. The course continues with an exploration of the different marks that our brushes can make, and this will show you how to get great freedom and life into your paintings. We finish up with a landscape painting, shown step-by-step, which uses all these techniques put together. Enroll on this course now and within a short time you will be familiar with all the basic techniques of watercolor painting, and you will have confidence to start painting for yourself. And there is no risk involved - there is a 30 day money back guarantee if you find it is not what you are looking for!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Materials

Lecture 2 Materials Summary

Lecture 3 Laying out your palette

Section 2: Mixing paint and water

Lecture 4 Getting the right mix

Lecture 5 The basic wash

Lecture 6 Wet-in-wet washes

Lecture 7 Paint an Abstract Painting

Section 3: Making marks

Lecture 8 Lively brushstrokes make lively paintings

Section 4: Putting it all together

Lecture 9 Let's paint a picture

Section 5: What next?

Lecture 10 More.

Lecture 11 Find out how to mix colors