Modern Watercolor Textures & Techniques: Fun Watercolor Bottles - Includes Free Bottle Line Drawings

Let’s make magic potion bottles and learn to watercolor paint.
In this class, you will learn the basic techniques of watercolor by creating a variety of liquid filled bottles. Maybe you want a potion bottle to fly or for invisibility. How about a perfume bottle? You get to choose your bottle, powers, colors and shapes. I provide the base bottle drawings, so you don’t need to be versed in sketching. Our focus will be on the painting and building up your beginner watercolor skills.
Watercolor is a fun and unique medium that can create a multitude of textures. What you get is all based on how you put down the paint, water and enhancements. Enhancements can be items like salt, tape, drawing gum, water droplets, plastic wrap or using a paper towel. Different combinations produce magical effects.
You will explore:
How to drop different colors and clear water into each other to create beautiful water effects
Tips on how to place colors next to each other without them bleeding together
Laying down tape or masking fluid as a water resistance mechanism
Using salt to create magical bursts of light
Crafting Fantasy Designs with a Modern Take
Adding waterproof pen below and on top of watercolor
Fixing mistakes when your color goes outside the lines
Creating depth through color variety
Painting glass with gray
Adding details that make your art unique.
I’ll be taking your through all the steps as you grown your watercolor skills.
This class is suitable for beginners or those wanting to explore different watercolor techniques.
To get started find your:
·         Pencil / Sharpener
·         Watercolor Paper – 300g / 140 lb
·         Waterproof Pen
·         Watercolor Paints - a. One of these: Davy’s Grey, Black, Payne’s Grey or General Greyb. Variety of Colors of Your Choice
·         Round Watercolor Brush(s)
·         Water Glass
·         At least One: Opaque White Pens / Gouache / White Posca Pen
·         Salt – Regular and/or Larger Crystals
·         Plastic Wrap
·         Masking Fluid aka Drawing Gum aka Liquid Frisket
·         Masking Tape
·         Paper Towels
·         Mixing Palette
Optional:
Metallic watercolor paints
By the end of this class, you will have:
Explored several ways to enhance your watercolor paintings.
Gained some tips and tricks that will make watercolor fun.
Learned that watercolor requires your patient pants. But the results are worth the wait.
As a little bonus: I’ll show you how to use glitter watercolor paints to create metallic flakes. Sometimes you want materials in your bottles sparkle. A little magic is sometimes that extra touch you’re looking for.
I’m excited to see you in class and get to know you better!
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Supplies List
Class Supplies:
Pencil / Sharpener
Watercolor Paper – 300g / 140 lb
Waterproof Pen
Watercolor Paints -a. One of these: Davy’s Grey, Black, Payne’s Grey or General Greyb. Variety of Colors of Your Choice
Round Watercolor Brush(s)
Water Glass
At least One: Opaque White Pens / Gouache / White Posca Pen
Salt – Regular and/or Larger Crystals
Plastic Wrap
Masking Fluid aka Drawing Gum aka Liquid Frisket
Masking Tape
Paper Towels
Mixing Palette
Optional:
Metallic watercolor paints
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