Free Watercolor Painting Lesson
What you’ll learn
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Wet-In-Wet washes are the single most important watercolor painting technique.
Learn how to use it along with two other important techniques in this lesson.
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Gradations are simple gradual changes in color or value. They work well for many subjects – especially skies and water.
Learn how the Wet-In-Wet technique makes gradations easy.
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Water and reflections are easier than it might seem.
This lesson shows how to start with basic techniques, using them to create great looking water and reflections.
Learn To Use Basic Watercolor Painting Techniques For Best Effect
This easy lesson uses important basic techniques for best effect. It’s a small, simple and easy painting that shows how to use the best character of watercolor in a landscape .
The scene is a summer landscape on a misty, rainy day. Soft texture abounds on a day like this as the mist softens and fades individual objects. Scenes like this on days like this require a lot of wet-in-wet passages to form those soft edges. This lesson gives you lots of practice in both.
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Get Started
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Let's Paint!
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Step 1: Sky & Background
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Step 2 : Middle and Foreground Layers
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Step 3 : Details & Finish
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Meet your instructor
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Meet your instructor ✳
TONY
Tony Conner is a watermedia artist known for expressive en plein air landscapes and seascapes.
His path as a self-taught artist has followed a serious and active course that has been dedicated to watercolor and an apprenticeship to its unique disciplines.
He has taught watercolor painting to many students for nearly eighteen years, watching as nearly all struggled with the same issues presented by this unique and beautiful medium.
Tony’s video lessons and courses are developed with this experience in mind. All lessons have an emphasis on using the important basic techniques well while combining them with essential color and composition skills.
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