Watercolor essentials, essentials meaning the basics. It's open to all people, even people who don't paint people who can't draw. But remember the basics and the essentials are good for people who can draw and who can paint like myself. I never stopped using the essential and the basics. Most of the problems that you've experienced and difficulties and perhaps in your mind failures are a result of two things, improper tools, and no idea of technique. How does the paper need to be respond to the paint.

What I'd love to see you do in this particular course, is learn one method of painting, the no drip, no slip, English watercolor style. This particular style had its origins in England, and it was developed by men later and by women. To the extent that today it is very accepted in all the graphic arts, advertising poster art. Lots of people are using this method you are about to learn a dynamic way of controlling your paint and being successful with a watercolor painting. The goal of these short demonstrations you'll be doing with me is to achieve mastery of a simple technique that is used all the time by professional watercolor painters. Why teach a basic skill like the wash, dark to light.

That basic skill led to a revolution art dark To light that we could create drama, we could create interest we could be entertaining with our paintings. Before that time, all the paintings were just flat, your eye only went to a certain depth, but with dark to light, we're able to go into the picture and come out of the picture. So this English watercolor style is absolutely essential if you want to become a good watercolors. It's the first of three important techniques. This is number one, no drips, no slips. We're going to do a very simple 10 drawing, like I said, you can use pencil, and I'll show you how to do the drawing.

It's simply for me to be able to teach you the same thing so that everyone's on an equal playing field. You can change your trees a bit in your clouds, you can work on it, but do try to do this little landscape with me Class isn't too long but we learn how to go from dark to light, dark to light. And then we have a flat wash here and a flat wash here. This is the first step and then we will go back over and darken even more to get a more dramatic contrast from here to hear. And that white on the trees will start to really show up and then we'll add some yellow glazing to change the color and we'll work it up into something similar to this and get it looking very realistic.