Playing with Watercolor: a 3-Part Series by Lindsay Stripling

All levels | 1 hour 38 min


Series Overview00:57

Mixing Colors and Creating Charts
Part 1 Overview00:39
Materials01:40
How to use paints and handle brushes11:30
Creating color charts with tints and shades12:20
Venn diagram glazing exercise06:29
Mixing neutrals and blacks10:08
Cleaning your workspace01:40

Part 2 - Painting Landscape Orbs
Part 2 Overview00:24
Materials00:18
Painting wet and creating textures09:30
Creating wet-on-wet horizon lines07:44
Combining techniques to create a circular landscape07:53

Part 3 - Painted and Collaged Landscapes
Overview00:31
Materials00:27
Glazing a forest scene07:25
Creating a landscape background06:59
Playing with textures and adding salt06:49
Cutting and composing a collage landscape04:45

Taught by Lindsay Stripling

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In this 3-part series, artist and teacher Lindsay Stripling teaches you core watercolor techniques, and then encourages you to use your creativity to make the medium your own. Throughout this series, you will learn watercolor essentials like mixing colors and handling brushes, and then move on to more advanced techniques like adding depth with glazing, working “wet into wet,” playing with light and dark, and creating textures with masking fluid and salt. This comprehensive course is the perfect skill-builder for those who want to push their artistic limits.

Here’s what you’ll need:

Playing with Watercolor: Mixing Colors and Creating Charts

100% cotton rag watercolor paper (Lindsay uses Arches hot press block in sizes 9” x 12” and 14” x 20”)

Synthetic brushes (Lindsay uses Simply Simmons Synthetic Sable Brushes in sizes Round 6, Round 8, Round 10 and a 1" Flat Wash brush)

Enameled metal palette

Cotton Rag for drying

Water

Metal palette knife or butter knife (if using block paper)

Sharp, hard pencils

Pencil sharpener

Ruler

Eraser