I will guide you through some simple steps that you can use for all your paintings, how to mix paints to make a color wheel to keep as a reference, how different techniques are used and to what effect. We will paint a complete painting of Venice, learn about tone and temperature as well as composition.

All you need are a few tubes of watercolors, a couple of brushes and some 300g watercolour paper, and a piece of plywood large enough to fit your size paper and some uncolored masking tape.

Our final project will be a complete painting. So..follow the first lessons and then join me to paint this nice Venice scene.

Material list:

One large soft round-tip sable brush or large squirrel mop (see brush video!), small squirrel mop, fine tip sable brush

A quarter sheet of Fabriano Artistico or Arches at least 300grams (semi-rough) I used 600 grams, white masking tape. Plywood board.

A tube or godette of Naples Yellow/Ultramarine/sepia or burnt umber/turquoise/cobalt blue/cadmium orange/alizarine crimson

2 jars of clean water

Paper towels or hankies

A book or something to prop your board up.

Post a photo of your work after each step to the class discussion for me to see if you would like any advice or feedback. I am HAPPY TO HELP. If you enjoy my class, please leave a review!! Thanks for joining me.

Note: (added 26th May 2020) The first three videos (Brushes, Colour Wheel and Effects) were my first attempts at making videos and have since realised the volume is best heard with earbuds! I would have liked to have edited them to raise the volume more, but I cancelled them from my laptop for memory space---So daft! However, the actual Painting Venice Lesson has higher Volume, so please don't be put off!! Thanks. I promise my videos will get better and better!

James Ekdahl

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