Here’s where you start!
Watercolor Painting for Beginners Course
Learn the tools, techniques, and strategy to create realistic watercolor paintings. This is your entire watercolor education in one course!
Here are shorter courses you can complete in an afternoon. They are perfect for beginners because you don’t have to go through Watercolor Painting for Beginners (above) first to be successful.
How to Paint a Chickadee
This is an introductory course to watercolor painting.
How to Paint & Sell an Egg
Have fun painting speckled eggs, and then learn my price formula for selling paintings and prints.
How to Paint an Orange Cat
Learn how to control the water and not overwork the paper in this one layer painting strategy.
How to Paint a Rose
Learn 2 ways to draw a rose, and 3 different ways to control the water when using the wet-on-wet technique!
How to Paint Wildflowers
Paint a butterfly in the BONUS section of this course!
How to Paint a Pair of Cardinals
Learn how draw and paint your own design with cardinals!
How to Paint a Tabby Cat
Learn how to paint black fur, and the expressive face of a Tabby cat with watercolors!
These courses are a continuation of Watercolor Painting for Beginners course. This is where you get to practice advance painting strategies, and develop your own unique style. To be successful, I recommended going through the foundational course (above) first.
How to Paint a Nest
Create details with lots of layers of masking fluid.
How to Paint a Peony
Learn to define shapes with a monotone palette.
Paint a Chipmunk on a Sunflower
Use my layering technique with masking fluid to create a sunflower.
How to Paint a Tree in a Field
Practice color mixing and learn how to minimize your brushstrokes to paint loose in this landscape painting.
How to Paint Bunnies!
Learn how to compose your own painting of two bunnies in a field snacking on flowers.
Paint Two Chickadees in a Forest
Refine your techniques to edit details in the middle ground, and background to compliment the focal points in the foreground.
How to Paint a Swan
Learn how to paint white feathers on a dark blue background, and ripples in water!
Raccoon Painting
Here's another opportunity to work with a limited painting palette.
Flowers and Flight Watercolor
Create the illusion of flowers bursting from the paper using only three colors!
How to Paint a Barn Owl
Learn to paint shadows to make a white owl pop forward from a white background.
Here are short demonstrations and painting projects to practice to answer common watercolor questions:
How to Mix & Paint Skin Tones
How to Paint Pine Trees
How to Paint City Lights on Rainy Nights
How to Fix a Mistake
How to Paint Sand & Sea Foam
EEEK! I Made a Mistake. It's OK, Here's What to Do...
How to Paint Clouds with Sun Rays
How to Create Realistic Original Designs
How to Fix Fingerprint Marks
How to Cut a Sheet of Watercolor Paper
A Lesson in Reading the Wetness of the Paper
Painting the Negative Space
How Critiquing Art Makes You a Better Artist
How to Blend Paint to Make Shadows
How to Even Out a Wash
Lifting & Scratching Out Black Paint
Lifting Out Paint to Get Back to White
How to Know When to Start Over
Fixing Masking Fluid Lines
What to Do When You Can’t Fix a Mistake
Helpful Reminders to Download
What to Do When You DON'T Like Your Art
Looking for MORE Fun Projects to Paint?
Check out the Live Painting Workshop section of the Academy to view this month's workshop, and to watch all past replays:
The Live Workshops go hand in hand with the courses above.
In these workshops you get to paint along with me, ask questions, and share your art for feedback. This is your chance to practice what you learn from the courses above!