Celebrate the Season: A Daily Holiday Painting Practice by Maria Carluccio

All levels | 4 hours 19 min

Celebrate the Season: A Daily Holiday Painting Practice
Overview00:56
Materials03:31
Day 1 - Tree with lights16:47
Day 2 - Santas22:17
Day 3 - Christmas cars11:09
Day 4 - Christmas wreaths07:33
Day 5 - Elves at work11:26
Day 6 - Elephant and mouse13:22
Day 7 - Winter village10:38
Day 8 - Bears in hats08:56
Day 9 - Skating bear08:50
Day 10 - Penguins05:37
Day 11 - Bear with gifts06:06
Day 12 - Gift bunny06:35
Day 13 - Reindeer05:23
Day 14 - Candy cane raccoon07:36
Day 15 - Hanukkah cat05:04
Day 16 - Christmas gnomes07:38
Day 17 - Tree with tiny people07:27
Day 18 - Shoppers04:05
Day 19 - Kitty asleep in a wreath05:28
Day 20 - Foggy trees05:39
Day 21 - Winter girl with sled05:10
Day 22 - Trees with sledder05:02
Day 23 - Snowman10:42
Day 24 - Pomegranates05:48
Day 25 - Sledding book07:41
Day 26 - Tree of turtles07:16
Day 27 - Snow globe with rainbow10:14
Day 28 - Merry little toadstools08:25
Day 29 - Feasting05:14
Day 30 - Santa's clothesline06:13
Day 31 - Ring of people06:05

Taught by Maria Carluccio

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Celebrate the magic of the holiday season with artist, author, and teacher Maria Carluccio while she guides you through her colorful and whimsical world of watercolor. Each prompt you paint will feel like opening a new gift each day. In this daily practice, Maria helps build your confidence with watercolor and reminds you that painting is like a conversation that you and your watercolor have with each other. Learn how to a create complete compositions with very simple shapes, use your sketch as a reference rather than painting directly on top of it, add details with ink and colored pencil, and imagine traditional holiday themes in charming and unexpected ways. Sled down a giant book, hang twinkle lights on an elephant, and find out who has been stealing all the candy canes.

Please note that there is mistake in the Watercolor Cat Menorah segment: a menorah has eight daily candles, not six as depicted. When you make your sketch and painting, please allow for six candles on your cat.

Here’s what you’ll need:

Fluid Watercolor cold press paper block. (Blick art materials) 8x8 -Or- Canson 7 x 10 spiral bound pad
Black Japanese Sumi ink (Amazon) or Higgins black ink (if you can’t get the Sumi ink)
Crow Quill dip pen
Porcelain painting palettes (preferred)
Water container
Paper towels
Sharpened pencils (2B, HB)
Eraser (standard)
Bamboo Reed pen
Salt
Assorted color pencils
Spray bottle
Eyedropper
Toothbrush (optional)
Assorted brushes; Maria suggests the following:
- 1 medium sized Japanese bamboo brush
- 1 Flat and wide Japanese brush
- 2 larger “Flat” good quality brushes
- 2 good quality smaller brushes for watercolor
- 1 Medium reg. watercolor brush
- 1 Medium/small reg. watercolor brush
A pack of inexpensive assorted brushes for experimentation
Kuretake watercolor set; Maria uses the set of 48 colors but smaller sets are available as well
A standard aluminum watercolor palette to put tube colors in (Blick or Amazon)
Assorted tube colors; Maria prefers Windsor Newton or Academy and works with the following shades: Naples Yellow, Deep Yellow, Gold Ochre, Alizarin Crimson, Carmine Red, Scarlet, Purple Madder, Rose Madder, Thalo green, Thalo Yellow Green. Sap Green, Cobalt Green, Prussian Blue, Turquoise/Cobalt Turquoise, Indigo, Brown Madder, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber/Vandyke Brown, Davy’s Grey/Payne’s Grey, Charcoal Grey