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Watercolor Postcards - Create Beautiful Abstract Watercolor Designs!

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Overview

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Sometimes, all you want to do with watercolors is throw some paint onto a piece of paper just for the fun of it! Creating watercolor postcards can be the perfect way to turn that enjoyable experience into an extremely rewarding craft - and I'm going to show you how to refine that process so that you can appreciate the results even more. 

In this class, you will learn: 

  • Useful materials for making watercolor postcards
  • Creative watercolor techniques like glazing, blending, and subtractive painting 
  • How to create small thumbnails you can use to plan out your art before getting started

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Materials
  • Wet on Wet Techniques
  • Wet on Dry Techniques
  • Using Masking Fuild
  • Subtractive Painting
  • Details: Stamps, Metallic Paint, and Colored Pencils
  • Thumbnailing: Value
  • Thumbnailing: Color
  • Class Project!

Taught by

Arleesha Yetzer

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