Whimsical Watercolors I

I'm so glad you're here and hope you're ready to have some creative fun in this jam-packed project based class!

List of supplies for the class, including links to some of my favorites.

In this chapter, I’ll introduce you to some easy-to-learn watercolor techniques that will have you painting beautiful designs in no time.

Practicing different brush strokes and colors to create something unique.

Let’s take a look at how our simple little patterns came together to make an interesting and colorful piece of art.

In this lesson, we'll learn about color palettes and practice by coloring different sized circles.

Start by picking our color palette using a color wheel.

Ok let’s paint! In this lesson we’ll create some colorful circles using the colors in our selected color palette.

With our color circles painted, we’ll add some detail and pizazz to really make our art piece pop!

All done, let’s take a close look at what we were able to create.

Some more photos and examples of my creation. Share yours with your friends!

In this lesson, we'll work together on creating a beautiful page of loose blooms in our watercolor journal.

We’ll prepare our watercolor paper and start painting by creating our colorful bloom centers.

Now let’s add some beautiful petals to our blooms and really start to fill in our color details.

Here are some of the designs I came up with. I hope yours came out even more interesting and colorful.

In this project we’ll be creating a pretty little watercolor scene featuring one of my favorite flowers - poppies.

We’re going to start our Puddled Poppies painting by creating our flowers first.

Next we’ll add some watercolor textures to our foreground to make our poppies stand out.

In this lesson we’ll be adding a watercolor- textured blue sky to our Poppies.

Time to make our Poppies really POP by adding some definition through doodles and lines.

Time to add some finishing touches like shadowing and highlighting to our pretty little poppies.

A few pictures of my completed Puddle Poppies painting.

In this lesson we’ll apply what we’ve learned from our previous projects to create big beautiful flowers.

Here are some examples of what I’ve created.

Prepare to create some beautiful watercolor landscapes.

Let’s get started by sketching out our hills in pencil, and layering in our sky.

Get ready for some flash because we’ll be spending this lesson filling our rolling hills with eye-popping color.

Now it’s time to add some detail by including lines and pattens in our landscapes.

Adding a couple extra details to make our colorful landscapes perfect.

Let’s take a look at the colorful landscapes we’ve created!

In this project we’ll be creating cute, colorful little watercolor birds.

Let's get some blobs of watery paint down on our journal pages and create quirky and whimsical birds!

Now that we have our basic bird shapes down, we’ll be adding some background color to fill out the scene.

Finally we’ll be adding detail to our blobs and background to make our little birdies stand out.

Final project photos!

We’ll be creating some amazing detailed and interesting designs using single line sketches inspired by leaves.

We’ll start off by sketching our leaf and border using a single continuous line.

It's time to add some color and texture to our negative space.

In this lesson we’ll scrape off our salts to see the incredible pattern and textures they’ve made on our painting.

Finish up by adding some shading to give our leaf some depth.

First we’ll put down a colorful watercolor background for our mandalas.

Next we’ll sketch out our mandala designs in pencil.

Time to trace our pencil designs with black pen to bring our mandala designs to life.

Finally we’ll add some final details to our mandalas.