(BEGINNERS START HERE)

If you’re not sure where to begin, I give the step by step to watercolor painting below:

  1. Watercolor Paper Guide

  2. Selecting Watercolor Paints

  3. Watercolor Basics Technique:

    Wet in Wet Technique

    Wet on Dry

    Using Masking Fluid

    White Watercolor Paint

  4. Painting Basic Subjects: Trees, Landscape, Sky

  5. Painting Basic Subjects: Still Lifes

  6. Painting Basic Subjects: Floral Art (Realistic vs Floral)

  7. Botanical Painting Timelapses

NFT Crash Course

  1. What is an NFT?

  2. How Easy is it to Create an NFT?

  3. Turn Your Art into an NFT

  4. NFT Crash Course

Gouache Basics

Gouache has gained popularity in recent years from illustrators and designers who use it for commercial work. Learn the basics of gouache and how to change your mindset shift from watercolor to an opaque medium.

  1. Gouache Basics

  2. Working with the paper

  3. How much water is too much?

  4. Reactivating paints

  5. Landscapes with gouache

Artists Career Blueprint

Everyone starts somewhere.

  1. Artist’s mindset

  2. Identifying your target market

  3. Coining your niche

  4. Forming a brand

  5. Developing moodboards for your different social media platforms

  6. Sharing your work on social platforms

    • Using Pinterest

  7. Career options for artists

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