Monochrome Watercolor Painting: Master Value And Tone With One Color
Course Level:
Beginner
Total Run Time:
1 hour, 54 minutes
Total Videos:
12
Course Description:
Monochrome art is eye-catching and unique because it uses a single color to illustrate an entire piece. Best of all, when you explore a color’s full range of tonal values—from the brightest tones to the darkest tones—you enhance your painting by creating greater depth and dimension.
But many watercolorists aren’t sure how to build up values to create such bold visual contrast. As a result, their paintings often look flat and rather dull.
Fortunately, this course walks you step-by-step through four monochrome projects that each focus on mastering a different color’s range of tonal values—that means you don’t have to worry about juggling multiple pigments in one painting!
By the time you’ve completed this course, you’ll understand how to create value scales and apply the paint-to-water ratio more accurately so that you can add layers and distinguish between values with ease.
What You Will Learn:
Supplies You’ll Need:
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In this course, you’ll learn to create these amazing class projects, but more importantly, you’ll learn how to create your own pieces in the future.
What’s In The Course?
Course Level: Beginner
Run Time: 1 hour, 54 minutes
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Ratings and Reviews
Edna Paro
I thought a good painting had to have tons of different colors to be pleasing to the eye. However, I learned I could make a beautiful painting with only one color and using different values can make a big impact on the viewer. I am very proud of the projects I made in this course!
Jim Rose
Miranda's presentation was easy to follow and covered every detail of the project. My take away was that I needed better quality paints and brushes. Fortunately I followed Miranda's advice and used 140# cotton paper (makes all the difference). My goal is to now duplicate each project again with different colors. Practice makes perfect?
Karma Warren
This was a very informative course with many opportunities to practice using value and tone. Miranda was knowledgeable, engaging, easy to understand and follow along with! The pace of the course was perfect and I didn't feel like I was getting "left behind" during the paint alongs. I ended up with value studies for several paints in my palette and four awesome monochrome paintings. I would highly recommend this course!
This course is an opportunity to learn a basic and essential skill in levelling up your watercolouring mastery. I never considered monochrome in traditional painting but now I see it as another string to my bow re watercolour. It also emphasises water and pigment control as something that needs consistent effort and practice, but the results are worth it whether you use 1 colour or all of them!