These watercolor videos contain art lessons and demonstrations of various watercolor painting tips, techniques and secrets; an instruction video makes a great gift for any artist, and the first lesson is free to view online.

Watercolor Painting Lessons on Videos
Tips & Techniques

Demonstrations

Watercolor Workshop ( A fantasy painting )

• Experimental watercolor. Surface effects.
• Color theory
• Advanced brush technique
• How to work with staining and sedimentary colors.

This workshop was given to the Wet Paints Studio Group March 31, 2007.

In the workshop I demonstrated this watercolor painting:

Workshop available on video
runs 1 Hour 12 Minutes.

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Met Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art) is my touchstone for watercolor paintings.

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Lessons

Free Lesson - Materials List

1. What do I need to buy to start painting with watercolor?
2. This lesson covers the five basic tools needed to get started
3. Paint
4. Paper
5. Brushes
6. Pallette
7. Beginning the painting
8. Painting techniques
9. Wrapping it up ( How to know when to quit. )
10. A few tips on matting and framing.
11. A plastic board to hold your paper while painting.
12. The lesson assumes that the new artist has a limited budget, and therefor suggests only those materials that you must have to make a good painting.

Video - Beginning Watercolor

1. Materials List - What do I need to buy to get started
2. Laying out a pallette
3. Washes 1 - Learning to control the relative lightness and darkness of a painted area.
4. Washes 2 - Getting the watercolor "look"
5. Mixing color - Painting a color wheel
6. Six painting demonstrations, from vey simple to moderately complex.
7. Drawing tips and tricks for people with limited drawing skills
8. Selecting your own subjects.
9. Moving on
10. Defining your objectives
11. Conceptualizing the painting.
12. Planning the composition
    • Shape
    • Value
    • Color
      • Staining verses sedimentary colors.
      • Warm and cool colors
      • Analogous color schemes
      • Complementary color schemes
      • Discordant color scheme
    Executing the plan

Intermediate Watercolor

1. Color theory - Goes deeper than the beginner lesson
2. Composition Line
3. Color
4. Value
5. Texture
6. Lifting and masking

Advanced Watercolor - Composition

1. Dominance
2. Line
3. Edge
4. Shape
5. Value
6. Color
7. Texture
8. Effecting emotions
9. Path of light
10. Controling eye motions

Experimental Watercolor

1. Textured Surfaces
2. Create slick surfaces and paint on them
3. Disturbing the wash ( plastic wrap, foils, particles, alcohol, water )
4. Monoprinting
5. Stamping
6. Spraying

Watercolor Demonstrations

Girl In The Park

The video runs 1 Hour 12 Minutes.

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Larrys paintings also make excellent gifts. Why not check the watercolors out on the left menu.

Met Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art) is my touchstone for watercolor paintings, and video lessons.

This is where you find an excellent collection of Edward Hopper watercolors.