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Watercolor Textures: Weathered Stone Wall (Project + Tips)

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Shelby Abrahamsen (Foxsy)

Class Description:

Watercolors can produce an incredible range of textures and effects, which makes it a popular medium for many artists. Explore the depth of your watercolor abilities and play with essential techniques and materials needed to bring this project to life. You’ll discover how to analyze stone textures, apply base colors, and build intricate details for an interesting, compelling piece. The best way to learn is by doing, and this session gives you plenty of opportunities to get your brush moving.

What You Will Learn:

  • Discuss essential watercolor supplies and optional tools that can enhance your project.
  • Evaluate reference images to recognize color variations and textures inherent in stone walls.
  • Practice wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry methods along with layering and glazing to depict age and texture.
  • Learn how to sketch the stone wall outline to lay the best foundation for your painting.
  • Follow step-by-step instructions on laying down base colors, building details, and achieving realistic shadows and highlights

Supplies You'll Need:

  • Watercolor paints (lots of browns and blues, plus the rest of your basic color palette)
  • Watercolor brushes in various shapes and sizes
  • Watercolor paper (140 lbs)
  • Sketching tools (pencils, erasers) for the initial outline
  • Sketchbook or drawing paper
  • Optional: salt, plastic wrap, paper towels, toothbrush, and plastic card (like a gift card)

About Instructor

Shelby Abrahamsen (Foxsy)

Shelby is the co-founder of Foxsy and the creator at Little Coffee Fox. She is a professional watercolorist, letterer, and artist with a passion for teaching others to reintroduce creativity back into their lives. Shelby lives in Chicago, IL with her husband Jon and her pets Summer, Basil, and Korra.

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Class Details:

  • 📊Level: Intermediate
  • ⏰Time: 2 Hours, 17 Minutes

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Melissa Garrett
Posted 1 year ago
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excellent! very informative. I mean this as a compliment: while I envision my own style being very different from Shelby's I am able to learn the techniques in a way that I can apply. (Shelby's work is beautiful-I don't mean to discredit HER style.) Other teachers and tutorials give me their specific method, but I'm not as well prepared to synthesize the concept. (There...that's probably a better way to say it!)

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Jisuki
Posted 1 year ago
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This class was fun and challenging since I'm a total beginner but I didn't feel overwhelmed at all. I learned so much about using simple items to create different textures for painting walls - so very cool! Definitely will keep practicing this one.

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LindaH
Posted 1 year ago
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Shelby did a Wonderful Job of Explaining a Couple of Different Ways to Paint Stone Walls From Mixing Greys and Reds to adding the Colour of Mortar I really enjoyed this class

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