Painting with watercolors is an amazing experience and you obtain results that you can´t get with any other medium. In this class I'll show you how I paint my quick landscapes with a mix of controlled and loose techniques. I'll also give you tips on how to improve painting with mini practice exercises to try out on paper. You will also watch me paint every stage of my aquarelle, from making composition, watching over white areas, applying colors and special effects to the finishing touches that will make your paintings come alive.

This class is suited for all levels of knowledge, creativity. and visual communication

ASSIGNMENT

Your assignment is to:

- Do watercolor exercises. Follow this video course and make the exercises to better understand the medium and how to use it when the time comes for the fully finished work. These are very easy exercises for you to discover and explore watercolors. Time spent doing this can become most valuable time you can invest into your knowledge and creativity! And it`s fun, so take some paper and let's go!

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- Make your own watercolor landscapes. Really fun assignment with two big benefits: you'll be creating something interesting, and gaining a deeper understanding of working with watercolors.

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Use the wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry techniques and choose a landscape scenery that you love, photo from a vacation, image from a magazine, google the landscape that you find interesting or even make up a landscape straight from your mind. Important thing is to find a motif that is interesting to you and that you will have fun transferring onto the paper.

In the attached document you will find some reference photos just to get you started and some of my watercolor paintings as an example.

MATERIALS

Use the video lessons, resources below, and discussion sections for inspiration and guidance. For this assignment you will need watercolors, few brushes, glass of water, palette for mixing colors, sponge, paper towel, one wooden board to place your paper, one duct tape to attach your paper onto the board.

RESOURCES

- Watercolor sets - https://www.royaltalens.com/en-gb/brands/van-gogh/artists%E2%80%99-colours/water-colours/

- My favorite paper - http://fabriano.com/en/22/artistico_traditional_white

- Facebook page for all who love watercolors - https://www.facebook.com/groups/watercolor.world.artist/?fref=ts

- My favorite watercolor artist - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/david-blayney-brown-draughtsman-and-watercolourist-r1132588

- Working with masking fluids - http://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/how-to/Still-Life/243/9-tips-for-working-with-masking-fluid

- Art books on watercolor painting on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Watercolor-Painting-Art-Books/b?ie=UTF8&node=2019

DELIVERABLE

Here are the deliverables to share in the project gallery for feedback:

watercolor paper exercise examples
shots of work in progress for our visual communication
finished works - visual arts examples

You don´t have to scan the finished piece, you can also take a picture with your phone and upload it. If you are scanning it, remember to do it at 600 ppi so you can use it for bigger things later.

LIST OF SUPPLIES I USED:

-Canson cold press sketch paper (90 gr)

-Fabriano cold press watercolor paper (200 gm)

-Talens - Van Gogh water colour set ( https://www.royaltalens.com/en-gb/brands/van-gogh/artists%E2%80%99-colours/water-colours/van-gogh-water-colour-plastic-set-20hp8624/ ) and other water colors that I have at the moment

-Watercolor brushes, all sizes and manufacturers

-Graphigum, Liquid gum for masking by Lefranc & Bourgeois

Here you can see more of my work:

http://milanglo.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=0

FINAL WORDS

Painting with watercolors is very addicting and the more you do it, the better you get and you start to understand how the paint behaves and how the brush moves in your hands. It becomes something very personal, because nobody can paint like you! So practice, practice, practice and make it your own!

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