How To Play, Experiment, & Plan With A Watercolor Sketchbook
Course Level:
Beginner
Total Run Time:
31 minutes
Total Videos:
6
Course Description:
Welcome to How To Play, Experiment, And Plan With A Watercolor Sketchbook! Over the last fifteen years, Shelby Abrahamsen has learned A LOT about working with watercolors. The most important lesson? Understanding the importance of just playing with her paints!
There is so much possibility when it comes to painting loosely and experimenting with watercolors. In this course, Shelby will guide you through getting in the correct mindset, overcoming first-page fear, using your sketchbook to develop your confidence and style, and how to plan paintings with rough sketches and thumbnails.
So stick around to see how a watercolor sketchbook can unlock your painting skills and launch you forward leaps and bounds!
What You Will Learn:
Supplies You’ll Need:
Inspiration:
In this course, your instructor will demonstrate exercises designed to help jumpstart your creativity and encourage you to create your own art pieces.
What’s In The Course?
Course Level: Beginner
Run Time: 31 minutes
Course Content
Ratings and Reviews
linda-f
Every lesson was like a step up to the next. Shelby is great at being an ally as well as a teacher to being supportive and truthful in the process. Step by step, she takes the viewer through from general to specific and it's really bite sized information that leads onto the next, it made sense to me. It was great to see her process and her warm, reassuring manner motivates you to succeed!
Janet Gillis
I never start a painting any more without working up a concept in a sketchbook. It also gives me an opportunity to jot down ideas and concepts to use later while I'm not able to paint immediately. You'll find a million reasons to use a sketchbook once you start.
Susan Countess
“This course really helped me. I can't draw. I usually trace a photo then paint it. I took out my almost blank sketch book and forced myself to plan a painting of Barnegat Light. I also wanted to paint our sailboat transiting the inlet. Planning taught me that there can be only 1 focus of the painting. Perspective & proportion issues were also clarified by having to plan.
Gail Prouse
I really enjoyed this course. Short and sweet, yet felt that I really learned a lot!! I agree with the person before me that maybe more time between would be of benefit, or maybe its that I am too hard on myself and a perfectionist and just not up to speed. Also being marked on these courses has me freaked out frankly if I am honest. am not going to be able to submit if I am going to keep up
Jim Rose
I actually have two sketch books - one only for pencil work so I can practice drawing things and one mixed media for those “things” I need practice with color. For me, the courses are becoming more challenging and I’m feeling frustrated at falling behind. Maybe an additional week to complete the course would have been helpful but then others might get bored if things don’t move faster.
I enjoyed this lesson so much. It really brought home the importance of a few steps that not only refine skills but also builds an intuitive mental space. and the planning process allows a project to grow into something more. I started following an image I was inspired by and now am visualising different ways I could use this technique and reflecting on what I don't like in my draft image.