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Online Class

Improve Your Paintings: Luminous Watercolor Mixing

with Kateri Ewing
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Mix the glowing, harmonious watercolors you want, every time. Learn how using fundamental techniques and a limited palette of just six pigments.

Skill Level

Intermediate

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  • 6 Streaming HD video lessons with anytime, anywhere access
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  • Hours of close-up instruction
  • Answers to student questions from instructor Kateri Ewing
  • Closed captioning available (web only)

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Class Overview

Learn skills for mixing watercolors to achieve vibrant hues and luminous neutrals. With professional watercolorist Kateri Ewing as your guide, you'll kick off class with a lesson on color theory basics, organizing your palette and making a 15-color wheel. Next, discover how to create personalized color charts that will help you match the exact hues you want to achieve. After you're completely comfortable with primary and secondary color relationships, discover how to create more nuanced color mixes using complementary tertiary hues. Ready to apply your new watercolor mixing skills? Kateri will guide you through a study of a pear using techniques for transferring a line drawing, adding a first glaze and using darker colors to create dimension.

Class Overview

Lesson Breakdown

1. Understanding Successful Watercolor
21:05
Meet artist Kateri Ewing as she introduces you to the limitless possibilities of watercolor. Kateri explains the characteristics of successful watercolor paintings, including how to select the most effective paints and tools. Next, learn the difference between luminous and muddy works, which will transform the way you'll see and paint in the future.
2. Split Primary System
11:12
3. Charts & Color Matching
24:27
4. Tertiaries, Neutrals & Greens
23:15
5. Project Foundations & Color Study
14:15
6. Building Color & Completing the Pear
25:59
Lesson Breakdown

Recommended with this class

  • Watercolor paints, watercolor brushes, watercolor paper
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Taught by

Kateri Ewing
Kateri Ewing
Instructor
For watercolorist Kateri Ewing, painting is all about capturing the awe she feels for the natural world. In preparation for painting, Kateri regularly walks and photographs the woods, meadows and waterways in two of her favorite places near her home in western New York state: Wyoming County and Knox Farm State Park. Kateri's passion for painting and drawing is infused in her teaching, and sharing her techniques with students of all ages is her favorite thing about being an artist. Kateri's original watercolors are currently represented by Meibohm Fine Arts.
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