Improve Your Paintings: Luminous Watercolor Mixing

Professional watercolorist Kateri Ewing guides you through mixing watercolors to achieve the vibrant hues you want every time.

Description:
In this course, watercolorist Kateri Ewing takes you step by step into the world of luminous watercolor mixing. You’ll learn how to organize your palette, avoid muddy colors, build personalized charts, and achieve natural, vibrant tones that elevate your paintings. With practical projects such as a pear study, you’ll put theory into practice and develop a deeper understanding of how color relationships can transform your art.

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Lessons

01: Understanding Successful Watercolor
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.
21 min

02: Split Primary System
Learn the difference between primary and split primary colors, and discover how color theory will help improve your paintings. Kateri shows you how organizing your palette will reduce frustration and wasted paint, and she walks you through the creation of your own 15-color wheel.
11 min

03: Charts & Color Matching
Every artist has experienced the disappointment of not being able to match a hue exactly, but Kateri shows you how to solve this common challenge! Create your personalized color charts that train your hand and your eye to recognize color relationships, and allow you to match any color you can find.
24 min

04: Tertiaries, Neutrals & Greens
Now that you’ve mastered primary and secondary color relationships, Kateri walks you through ways to mix complementary tertiary hues to achieve even more nuanced mixes. Next, she shares professional tips for transforming unnatural green paint pigments into the greens found in nature.
23 min

05: Project Foundations & Color Study
Apply your new understanding of watercolor paints and color theory to a study of a pear (or anything else that you desire). Kateri shares her preferred method of transferring a line drawing before walking you through the first glaze of a color study.
14 min

06: Building Color & Completing the Pear
Continue building your colors as you improve your ability to accurately observe and mix various shades. Kateri helps you work darker colors into your yellow and green pear study, creating depth and form with washes, stunning details and nuanced shading.
26 min