Elaine M Bergstrom

Signature Class
Watercolors with Six Tubes: Series 1

Signature Class
Watercolors with Six Tubes: Series 1

$149.00

$149 introductory price.
Includes handouts and hours of technique videos.
No refunds.

This signature class is filled with jammed packed information about watercolor painting. Begin with creating color charts to study and learn about warm and cool color bias. Learn how to limit your palette and make any color you need with only 6 double primary tubes. Paint wet on wet, vs. glazing applications on various subjects: Tomatoes, eggplant, parrot, branch and a tiger. Plus, a variety of brush and painting techniques that can be applied to all of your paintings you want to create. It is everything you need to learn about painting with watercolors whether you’re a beginner or need a complete refresher. Begin where you are at.

Materials List

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Lesson Outline:

  1. Preparation
    • The Materials List
    • Setting up Your Workspace
    • Cleaning Your Brushes
    • Transferring Your Images and Taping
  2. Reference
    • Color Bias Swipes
    • Warm and Cool Bias Wheels
    • The Color Wheel
    • Color Reference Grid
  3. How to Get the Colors You Want
    • Mixing Mauve and Brown Paper Bag
    • Mixing Earth Colors, Gray and Black #2
    • What are the Pigments in your Tube of Paint
    • Getting the Green You Want
    • Wet on Wet Technique
  4. Simple Glazing Technique
    • Value and Light Source
    • Glazing Technique
    • Shadow Mixes and Application
  5. Combining Glazing and Mixing Technique
    • Painting a Scarlet Macaw
    • Application for Masking Fluid
    • Painting a Branch and Background
  6. Black Stripes
    • Mixing Blacks
    • Painting Tigers or Zebras
    • Eye of the Tiger
  7. Completion