Experimental Watercolor Techniques for Beginners

Overview

“In this first lesson we will start with one of the simplest techniques: wet on dry, and we will create color transparencies. I have given 4 layers, but you can do only one, two, eight or as many as you want. I used the Canson paper of Moulin du Roy 300 grams Fine grain.”

In this video lesson Ana Santos addresses the topic: Flat colors / Transparencies, which is part of the Domestika online course: Experimental Watercolor Techniques for Beginners. Learn how to paint with watercolor from scratch and make the most out of your mistakes.

Partial transcription of the video

“PLAIN COLORS TRANSPARENCIES In this lesson we'll work on wet on dry technique. My drawing is prepared here. I don't know if you can see on camera, I've used a 2H pencil. I tend to work with these pencils to not stain the watercolor or the paper. In additional resources I'll leave all the animals that you'll use, but you're free to use others if you want. In this work we'll work on several layers. We'll see the transparencies, how a color works on another we need to be patient for it to dry. Once we do the first layer, we need to let it dry. For this work I'll only use blue. You can choose t...”

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Course summary for: Experimental Watercolor Techniques for Beginners

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (3382)
• 76076 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (3h 51m)
• 65 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Fine Arts, Naturalistic Illustration, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting