ABOUT THIS COURSE
This video workshop is designed to help beginning watercolorists gain confidence in a sometimes frustrating but always rewarding medium.
Watercolor instructor Lynn Powers presents basic concepts, techniques and tips that help students build a strong foundation from which to grow and explore. The DVD includes five lessons, each of which addresses a specific watercolor technique and introduces a basic concept important to successful painting.
Students learn the flat wash, variegated wash, wet-on-wet and negative painting techniques and discover how to use expressive brushwork in their paintings. The video includes printable line drawings for each on-camera demonstration, so everyone can paint along. Each lesson comes with a second exercise that students can print from the video for continued practice. These companion exercises include line drawings, original reference photos and illustrated step-by-step instructions.
Getting off on the right foot in watercolor can make all the difference. This watercolor video will help you gain confidence in this versatile medium.
The video includes 5 lessons, each of which addresses a specific watercolor technique and allows you to do a complete painting.
Lessons 6-10 of this class continues on A Solid Start in Watercolor with Lynn Powers, part 2
WORKSHOP CONTENT
Lesson 1
Technique: Flat Wash
Subject: Bird House
Lesson 2
Technique: Graded Wash
Subject: Sunflower
Lesson3
Technique: Wet-into-Wet
Subject: Tree Landscape
Lesson 4
Technique: Negative Painting
Subject: Forest
Lesson 5
Concept: Composition
Subject: Landscape Painting
