Watercolor 101

This comprehensive watercolor workshop equips you with essential techniques to confidently apply watercolor in your creative projects. You will learn color mixing, wash application, working from light to dark values, using reserve and additives, and mastering advanced techniques such as watercolor underpainting.

Course Learning Objectives:

• Watercolor brushwork fundamentals
• Wet-on-wet painting techniques
• Wet-on-dry painting techniques
• Watercolor underpainting methods
• Portrait painting in watercolor

Detailed 10-Day Curriculum:

• Day 1: Flat washes and basic watercolor techniques. Learn to identify and avoid common mistakes while painting a simple landscape in the Voloshin style.
• Day 2: Eastern watercolor traditions. Master various brushstrokes while creating paintings of blossom trees, koi fish, and dragons.
• Day 3: Combining wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry techniques. Create a detailed flower painting demonstrating both methods.
• Day 4: Wet-on-wet watercolor applications. Complete a full animal study, such as painting a cat.
• Day 5: Classical watercolor with underpainting preparation. Begin a small realistic still life composition using trompe-l'oeil techniques.
• Day 6: Complete your still life study with finishing details and refinements.
• Day 7: Begin a realistic portrait. Receive detailed instruction on painting human skin tones, hair texture, and expressive eyes.
• Day 8: Finish your realistic portrait study with advanced techniques.
• Days 9 to 10: Complete a final project of your choosing that demonstrates mastery of the techniques learned throughout the course.