Watercolor painting can be easy and fun. In these short videos, I walk you through step-by-step how to create this beautiful Mediterranean city painting in about 30 minutes, using a minimal number of very inexpensive watercolor materials. This is the perfect painting activity to do with your children, your friends, your class, or by yourself with a glass of wine or cup of coffee. No painting experience required! Total beginners welcome! I explain everything in simple terms, and the steps to creating this painting are so simple you'll be surprised. Yes, you too can learn to paint beautifully, and have a blast the whole time. If you're not satisfied with this class, please let me know within 30 days and I will refund your fee in full, no questions asked. And all these videos are 100% downloadable! So you can enjoy them offline any time you'd like. So come paint with me and you'll have a great time, and a beautiful painting to enjoy for years to come.

When I first started using Watercolour in 1980 I was inspired to copy the great artists such as Constable, Quinton and others. I couldn’t get on with oil or acrylic so turned my hand at watercolour. As I had never gone to art school I just went with my instincts and had fun! Because I tried to copy the great artists, the techniques I developed were completely unique and unlike any other watercolour pictures I saw. I remained self taught, learnt as I went along and what you’ll see in this course is a result of years of learning through mistakes and finding what worked. You’ll also see techniques never before attempted with watercolour (as far as I know) . My watercolour pictures, even though they’re “impressionistic”, have a sense of realism about them. In this course I’ll give you an outline drawing so that you can print this straight to watercolour paper or trace it using a carbon. I’ll also show you the materials I use in my watercolour work. Then we’ll get started with the paintings which are split into “easy to digest” parts. With this course you will learn to paint "Scotney Castle". The same location as one of our other courses but this time a different angle with new challenges. In this 4hr course you'll learn to paint a sky, trees, foliage, water, buildings and more! Towards the end of this course, Colin will also show you how to use pastel pencils to take your finished watercolour to the next level. With small enhancements you can add more vibrancy and texture to your painting. I hope you enjoy learning my watercolour techniques, once you are finished, please do share your artwork via the Q & A section or message us using Udemy's messaging tools.

Short PROJECT BASED COURSE : Learn 6 easy rock techniques that you can incorporate into your own paintings. Learn how to paint some fun and easy rocks using watercolor? Try my simple easy tips and tricks to creating some attractive yet simplistic rocks that you can use in your watercolor paintings. In this course, I'll show you how to explore rocks creating 6 separate, yet simple styles, to bring your landscape or seascapes to life. The course is a total of 40 minutes long with 6 separate lectures and styles of rock. We will not complete a full scene in this course. It is to be used as a guide on how to create different textures and simple types of rock to use in your own scenes. Do you get frustrated with watercolor and all those details? Can't seem to figure out how to create something that looks like a rock and not a blob of color? Join me in this new course "How to Paint Rocks Using Watercolor" and I'll show you some very easy tips and tricks to creating some very easy rock formations using watercolors. In this class we'll go over six different ways to create simple and interesting layers with watercolor. The first concept I'll show you some wet in wet techniques and then we'll move onto smooth and round boulders, a rocky Island scene, a granite style rock, and then some dry brush techniques that I use in my daily art. This class is for new painters or those of you that get overwhelmed or are unsure where to start.  You will create rocks using simple techniques and tips very quickly and with out a lot of frustrations, I'll show you how. Get your watercolors out ... and let's start having fun with some quick little rock demos! WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER IN THIS COURSE: How to create 6 different styles of rocks We'll cover a wet in wet style, learning how to easily blend your watercolor Learn to create a granite look with a splatter technique. Create rocks by using a dry brush style plus other tips! Please don't forget to post your projects below, I can't wait to see them! Have fun  - can't wait to see them! Kellie Chasse Fine Art

Are you struggling as you try to learn to paint in watercolour? In this course suitable for intermediate to confident beginners you will learn from my step by step tutorials the wonderful techniques to bring your watercolour paintings to life ..are you ready to to take your paintings from meh to magic? see you in class!

As artist we can often have a drive to create but find inspiration to be elusive. Why do some artist have endless ideas and seemingly endless supply of new ideas ? What is creative flow and what does it mean to connect to it ? How can I find my own style ? Welcome to my creativity workshop , my aim is to help you deepen your creative practice and tap into the energetic energy that is available to us all so that can create by drawing on your own internal flow of inspiration as well as your external flow . I want to help you discover your own artistic style and give you the tools to develop it by learning how to invest in your creative practice. I want to help you build confidence in your work and help you understand how fear might be holding you back from being the best artist you can be. So come with me on this fun and freeing artistic journey , open yourself up to all the possibilities art can bring

Many hours have been spent putting this course together and making it a success is my goal. Please leave feed back when you have completed the course. If your not happy with the course please let me know how I can improve it, I will do my best to do so. This is a 'learn through play' course and is very basic.  You will simply learn how to get the paint from the box via the brush and onto the paper. In this course I invite you to spend a few days in a camping. We will take our backpacks, a campervan and will enjoy the pure nature through watercolors. Here we will learn about: simple mixing colors creating distnace we will paint reflections on the water we will learn more about highlights and core shadows on objects we will enjoy a simple starry night in the woods and we will take a ride on a campervan how to simplify and make the most of the foreground Have you ever had problems painting landscapes in watercolor? Have you struggled to paint water, buildings and people? Then this course will help you! I'll show you how to paint some of these common elements of the landscape with confidence! I'll teach you how to paint water. You will learn some simple techniques that will help you paint great landscape paintings. No matter if you are a beginner or if you have a little experience of painting, this course will help you improve. Paint Along Step By Step With Me Let your creative side run wild. Make sure you use the Q&A for any questions you may have. When you Enroll on this workshop I will do my very best to help you succeed, enabling you to reach your full potential.

Many students message me with questions about how to find the right watercolor paints to tackle all the different skin and hair tones they encounter when painting their watercolor portraits. I have been painting professionally for nearly 30 years and in that time I have painted literally hundreds of watercolor portraits. Over this time I have developed a very limited palette of just 7 colors with which I use to paint every different color of hair and skin tone. In this,the first course in my new series "How to paint hair and skin tones, Course #1 Medditeranean/Middle Eastern" we start off in the introduction where I show you a sped up version of the course and I show you the very limited tools (just 7 colors and 3 brushes) which you will need to do this series of courses . Then I show you how to use tracedown paper to get an outline of your image and how to locate "landmarks" on your portrait. Masking fluid is then explained in detail before we dive into the watercolor painting. This course concentrates on hair color and texture and skin tone and texture using a very limited palette of colors,for ease of description I have classified it as Medditeranian / Middle Eastern. Using a photograph as reference I explain exactly how I achieve realistic portraits by using real time videos without editing anything out except for drying times .This means that you will learn,not only about the colors but you will also learn how I go about tracing,sketching and masking my work. I am always at hand to answer any questions you may have,just message me in the Q and A section. I will see you in the first lesson,cheers David

Hello and Welcome! In this class I'm going to show you how to paint Cinque Terre, Italy in watercolour. One of the things I struggled with as a beginner was learning how to loosen up my brushstrokes while preserving a sense of realism. I will show you a quick and simple process in simplifying details in a reference picture to turn this into a loose watercolour painting. This class will help you loosen up as well as go though some essential wet-on-wet watercolour techniques when painting boats, water, reflections and buildings. This class is for beginners to intermediate learners. You will need some watercolour paper, watercolour paints consisting of blue, yellow, red and green, a 3/4 inch, and number 6/12 flat brush, and a number 4 round brush. I'm looking forward to sharing my knowledge with you, so enroll in this class and you'll be producing some simple and beautiful paintings in no time.

Hello my dear friend! In this course I will share with you all my experience with eyes drawing and painting for portraits. Eyes are the most impressive part of human face and one of the most difficult for artists at the same time. I'll try to provide all information you need in simple words. You have a chance to see a whole process from sketch and analysis to final brushstrokes and accents. So, let's Rock!

EXTRA lecture added Are you ready to turn your painting passion to good use? Then get ready to have even more painting fun by up-cycling some of your pictures into cards to send on any occasion. So you have been busy painting away and are building up quite a collection of paintings of all different subjects and sizes . You may even have a folder of unfinished ones, disastrous ones and maybe ones that you might frame and exhibit or sell.....one day ! What ever you have wouldn't it be nice to recycle the ones which are hanging about into original greeting or holiday cards? Just think of the money you could save , how impressed your friends and family will be with an original hand painted and crafted card AND how some people may even want to buy them? I give you tips on how to cut up and even weave your paintings to give them a new lease of life Who knows you may even start a little business. How creative is that? So sort out your paintings, get ready to have some fun and let's get started.