About This Workshop
About This Workshop
Creating art is a reward in itself, but selling what you create can transform your passion into your livelihood. Join acclaimed artist and successful entrepreneur Cat Coquillette for three classes that will take you from creation to product in four weeks. Whatever your goal — from a single sale to a full, sustaining business — this workshop will help you approach your art with trends and products in mind. You’ll need paper, your favorite watercolors, and access to Photoshop. This workshop is perfect for any watercolorist interested in learning new techniques and exploring print-on-demand.
Workshop Timeline
- Milestone 1: Build on your watercolor repertoire with modern techniques for creating beautiful work that stands out in Modern Watercolor Techniques: Explore Skills to Create On-Trend Paintings. You’ll learn how to mix colors, control your brush, paint around whitespace, create ombré gradient washes, fix mistakes as you go, and add gold to your finished painting for eye-catching impact. All you’ll need for this class is your favorite paper, brushes, and watercolors. Share your painting to the project gallery by April 1st.
- Milestone 2: In From Paper to Screen: Digitally Editing Your Artwork in Photoshop, you’ll learn how to optimize your image for printing in many different sizes and contexts — from a coffee mug to a wall tapestry. Cat walks you through fusing multiple scans into one image, removing paper backgrounds and flaws, exporting color variations, creating patterns, and adjusting artwork for different template dimensions. For this class, you’ll need access to Photoshop. Share your digitized work to the project gallery by April 10th.
- Milestone 3: Finally, in Creating Art that Sells: A Working Artist’s Guide, a Skillshare Original presented in partnership with Society6, you’ll learn techniques for finding success with print-on-demand sites. You’ll consider how you can change a color pallette to offer multiple options, what kinds of products would be a good fit for your art, and how you plan to promote your work. All you need for this class is your thinking cap! Share how and where you plan to sell your work to the project gallery by April 20th.
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Creating art is a reward in itself, but selling what you create can transform your passion into your livelihood. Join acclaimed artist and successful entrepreneur Cat Coquillette for three classes that will take you from creation to product in four weeks. Whatever your goal — from a single sale to a full, sustaining business — this workshop will help you approach your art with trends and products in mind. You’ll need paper, your favorite watercolors, and access to Photoshop. This workshop is perfect for any watercolorist interested in learning new techniques and exploring print-on-demand.
Workshop Timeline
- Milestone 1: Build on your watercolor repertoire with modern techniques for creating beautiful work that stands out in Modern Watercolor Techniques: Explore Skills to Create On-Trend Paintings. You’ll learn how to mix colors, control your brush, paint around whitespace, create ombré gradient washes, fix mistakes as you go, and add gold to your finished painting for eye-catching impact. All you’ll need for this class is your favorite paper, brushes, and watercolors. Share your painting to the project gallery by April 1st.
- Milestone 2: In From Paper to Screen: Digitally Editing Your Artwork in Photoshop, you’ll learn how to optimize your image for printing in many different sizes and contexts — from a coffee mug to a wall tapestry. Cat walks you through fusing multiple scans into one image, removing paper backgrounds and flaws, exporting color variations, creating patterns, and adjusting artwork for different template dimensions. For this class, you’ll need access to Photoshop. Share your digitized work to the project gallery by April 10th.
- Milestone 3: Finally, in Creating Art that Sells: A Working Artist’s Guide, a Skillshare Original presented in partnership with Society6, you’ll learn techniques for finding success with print-on-demand sites. You’ll consider how you can change a color pallette to offer multiple options, what kinds of products would be a good fit for your art, and how you plan to promote your work. All you need for this class is your thinking cap! Share how and where you plan to sell your work to the project gallery by April 20th.
