I wanted to feel that magical Christmas spirit, and so I created my own advent calendar. I absolutely LOVE making surprises, and I thought this course would be a perfect way to boost my festive spirit and offer you 24 surprises loaded with fun and knowledge.

Your project is to take 20 minutes a day (I tried to make it short because I know all of us are busy with work and daily responsibilities) and create a Christmas-inspired postcard following my guidance.

Especially curious students would have to be patient because I will only unlock one painting (lesson) daily, in the best advent calendar traditions ;)

For this calendar, you will need the following:

- set of watercolors (professional or student quality) and a palette to mix colors

- 3-4 brushes (middle size round natural brush, middle size round small brush, small flat brush, tiny round brush with pointy tip)

- small postcard size paper ( I cut mine into 14,5 * 10,5 cm/ 5,7 * 4,1 in), 300 gsm (you want a thick paper for your postcard), cellulose (you can use cotton paper too)

- white gouache for special effects

- pencil (any H), eraser (preferably kneadable eraser), water, tissues

HOW IT WORKS

As with a proper advent calendar, you should open only one gift a day. That's why you do not see all the lessons of this course here just yet.

Today is December 1, and you can unlock the first surprise :)

Every day I will open a new lesson for you to watch, so do not forget to come back here.

My final postcard painting will serve you as a reference, and I will attach a new one here, in the Project section, every day.

Here is an example of what you will paint ;)

24 Days are already open and you can find references attached to this class project!

Trish Toscano

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