Using wintery scenes to showcase our watercolors and all of its unique properties, while practicing a negative painting technique for snow? Why not!

Watercolors can be such an expressive beautiful medium, and this class is all about playing with your paints in a flowy, splashy way, like only watercolors can!

The splashing effect in this class is one of my favorites, and using it for different effects in paintings is so much fun! In this class we'll be using them for wintery landscapes, which allows us to also practice painting white subjects. With a transparent medium like watercolor, this can sometimes seem counter intuitive, as we are not actually painting anything white: we'll be painting everything else, keeping the white of the paper visible for highlights and white elements. This is also known as negative painting (although it usually has a very positive effect on me....)

Included in this class are classic watercolor techniques like

wet in wet

wet on dry and

dry brushing

and we'll be practicing all of those, while creating something beautiful at the same time. You can use these as postcards and send them out into the world (who doesn't love receiving snail mail?) or showcase them on your own walls!

This class is for anyone and everyone who enjoys exploring their watercolors, and I will go through all the steps thoroughly so it's easy to follow along! Although, if it's your very first time using watercolors, I suggest trying my technique class on Watercolor Splashes first:

Watercolor Splashes - Simples techniques to get to know your paints!

It's a great way to get to know more about wet-in-wet and wet-on-dry techniques before this one, but feel free to give it a try! You might be a natural :)

If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to me so I can help out!

I'd love to see your work in the project gallery below and I frequently share students work on instagram as well, you can find me there at @aqua.d.elise

Medha Gupta

Watercolor artist & teacher

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