I’m diving into this class and really looking forward to experimenting with watercolor!

Lesson #4: Transparency

My biggest takeaway from this lesson is that I really need to work on not messing with the paint too much. It never fails that I screw it up whenever I attempt to fix something! I didn’t have a blow dryer to dry the layers so I played around with other layered blobs while each layer of my kidney blob was drying.

My Watercolor Workout - image 1 - student project

Lesson #5: Transparency with Three Hues

Lesson #6: Water & Gravity Fusion

These lessons were a lot of fun and the experiments were really helpful in better understanding the behavior of watercolors. My favorite part was watching the swatches of color run into each other.

My Watercolor Workout - image 2 - student project

My Watercolor Workout - image 3 - student project

Lesson #7: Water & Hues

Lesson #8: Hue Transitions

What am I doing wrong? No matter how hard I try, I can’t get an even layer of color. Even if I only have the tiniest drop of extra color on my paper, it always ends up running back and messing up the whole square.

These exercises were really interesting as well. I loved being able to see the color transitions... and it makes me realize how many bazillions of hues I can create with even a limited palette.

My Watercolor Workout - image 4 - student project

My Watercolor Workout - image 5 - student project

Lesson #9: Stroke Speed

Loving the texture created by quick brush strokes!

My Watercolor Workout - image 6 - student project

Lesson #10 and #11: Silverware and More Silverware

This was a lot of fun!

My Watercolor Workout - image 7 - student project

Lesson #12: Abstract Squares

This is my new meditation exercise. I made tons of these because I really, really love watching the colors flow into each other.

My Watercolor Workout - image 8 - student project

Lesson #13 and #14: Spheres and Cubes

This was the most difficult lesson so far but I think that it was really valuable. I struggled (in a good way) with the timing of the sphere shadows and getting the layers on so that they would blend. Even though I have a long way to go, this exercise really helped me practice my awareness of the paint, water, and paper.

My Watercolor Workout - image 9 - student project

Lesson #15: Value and Color Challenge

This exercise was a nice challenge as well. For me, I could generally tell when the value was off...but it was difficult to correct the paint to be the value that I wanted. Really nice exercise! It also taught me the importance of having scrap paper to test the colors before putting them on the paper. I should have done that more in this exercise and then I would have been able to more easily correct the values when they were off.

My Watercolor Workout - image 10 - student project

Lesson # 16: Random Painting

My random paintings turned out no-so-random in the end.

My Watercolor Workout - image 11 - student project

Lesson #17: Easy Mountain Project

My Watercolor Workout - image 12 - student project

Lesson #18: Easy Tree Project

My Watercolor Workout - image 13 - student project

Lesson #19: Easy Landscape Project

My Watercolor Workout - image 14 - student project

Lesson #21-25:

I have made about a billion chairs over the past week. This was a really interesting exercise in highlighting the importance of using value to make objects look more 3D. It was also good to help practice painting looser... which is much harder than it looks!

My Watercolor Workout - image 15 - student project

My Watercolor Workout - image 16 - student project

Lesson #26 and 27: The Barns!

My barn studies are less than stellar but I was pleasantly surprised to see how the different values really do help suggest shadows and light. Logically, it makes perfect sense... but this exercise really helped the concept sink into my mind.

My Watercolor Workout - image 17 - student project

My Watercolor Workout - image 18 - student project

My Watercolor Workout - image 19 - student project

My Watercolor Workout - image 20 - student project

Lesson #29: Drawing with Brush

I have never really tried to paint like this before but I love it. So much potential! I love mixing the colors and just playing with the lines. I can’t wait to practice with this some more!

My Watercolor Workout - image 21 - student project

My Watercolor Workout - image 22 - student project

I started doodling on my painting while I was waiting for my kids to get ready for bed and realized that the ink added another interesting dimension to the cityscape. It’s not part of the lessons but I thought that I would post it anyway! My Watercolor Workout - image 23 - student project

Lesson #32: Going Bananas

My Watercolor Workout - image 24 - student project

Lesson #33: Melons

My Watercolor Workout - image 25 - student project

Lesson #34 and #35: Exploit Drawing

My Watercolor Workout - image 26 - student project

Lesson #36: Landscape

My Watercolor Workout - image 27 - student project

Lesson #38: Metal Pots

My Watercolor Workout - image 28 - student project

My Watercolor Workout - image 29 - student project

I experimented with tons of metal pots and discovered that paper also makes a big difference in the look and feel of a painting. In my final set of pots, I used a Cold Press paper with significantly more texture than my normal paper. I wish I had let the paint bleed a little more but I like being able to see the texture in the paper.

My Watercolor Workout - image 30 - student project

Lesson #39: Slotted Spoons

My Watercolor Workout - image 31 - student project

Lesson #40: I love ice cream

My Watercolor Workout - image 32 - student project

Lesson #41: Perfume Bottles and a little lipstick

My Watercolor Workout - image 33 - student project

Lesson #42 and #43: Teacups

My Watercolor Workout - image 34 - student project

My Watercolor Workout - image 35 - student project

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