Learn to Paint with Watercolour
Join this 6-part course and go from absolute beginner to confident artist.
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About the Artist and the Course
Jun-Pierre Shiozawa is a painter, Eisner-nominated comic artist, and art instructor from France who primarily works with water-based media, including watercolour and ink.
In addition, he has been an art educator with over twelve years of experience teaching watercolour, oil painting, drawing and art history.
Introduction to Watercolour
A Step-by-Step, Beginner-friendly course
Learn essential techniques like washes, mastering light and dark tones, masking, tonalities, colour theory, and realistic forms.
What are others saying
Ann B
Consolidated what I learned in the second class here. Thank you, Jun-Pierre! I have a lot to learn about washes--especially generating an even wash with the darker tones.
Beth L
Loved Jun-Pierre Shiozawa's class about negative painting. I think I've figured it out!
Heather M
I’m really enjoying getting back to the basics with this course! Jun-Pierre is very knowledgeable, and I am learning a lot. This is from Class #2 - Landscape wash with layered glazes.
What will I learn
Class 1: Watercolour Relationships: Wetness, Dryness and Washes
Length: 90 min
Learn about washes, an essential watercolour technique that will give life to any painting, and understand the relationship between water, paper, and paint.
Class 2: Layering and Glazes
Length: 90 min
Learn how to use darks and lights to your advantage, as well as the basics of layering and glazes while painting a landscape from your head.
Class 3: Negative Space and Masking
Length: 60 min
Paint white subjects and understand how to apply different masking techniques.
Class 4: Tone
Length: 90 min
Learn how to paint in terms of light to dark; and how to use tone to your advantage. The class will focus on how to consider tonalities when painting in watercolour, and how that will unlock how to make rich and nuanced paintings.
Class 5: Colour
Length: 90 min
Go through the basics of colour theory, temperature and intensity, and how to apply these in your paintings.
Class 6: Form and Texture
Length: 60-90 min
Learn how to convey convincing forms and textures through painting with watercolour.
