10 Minute Woodland Leaves - Beginner Watercolor

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Hi there!

One Paint

Two Brushes

Four Leaves!

In this beginner level class we'll be painting gorgeous woodland leaves... leaf shapes which you may be very familiar with, depending on where you are in the world :O)

We're going to be creating easy stems out of just one pencil line, and adding blooms by dropping water and slightly thicker pigment into our leaves. I'll be demoing 3 brush stokes:

1. Side sweep
2. Blunt interrupted round brush stroke
3. Tip-belly-tip technique

I've chosen a size 4 and a size 10 round brush.

I'm hoping that you'll feel you can adopt these 4 leaves into your art practise, and allow them to become part of your unique style of watercolour painting.\

Techniques we'll be covering:

• How to create gentle blooms and make the most of any granulating paint you may have chosen
• How to add depth by dropping in slightly more pigmented paint into the base and tip of your leaves
• How to add simple but effective pencil details

This class is designed for those of you who are:

• New-to-painting 
• Wanting to refresh your basic watercolour skills
• Wanting to create an on-going glossary of go-to leaf shapes
• Fancy a short calming painting session to ease daily woes!

I have a little mission statement, where I aim to make my classes:

• Informative
• Relaxing
• Fun

I hope I've achieved that in this class! Shall we get started?!.... Let's go...

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