Watercolor Painting: Explore Dry Brush Techniques

Discover a different approach to watercolor painting by learning the dry-brush technique to create illustrations of nature

• Introduction
• The First Steps
• Painting a Tree with Dry Brush
• Creating a Simple Landscape
• Final project

Ready to learn a unique approach to watercolor? Valentina Grilli is a renowned illustrator who has collaborated with top brands like Kartell and institutions like Raffles Milano. Valentina's work has been featured in Simbiozy and presented at ArteCreativa 42 in Turin and On Art Gallery in Florence. She is here to show you how to create striking works of art using dry brush techniques, an alternative method of using watercolor that consists, less and less water to arrive at pigment almost in purity. This alternative approach makes it possible to achieve a very high degree of detail, as you proceed with smaller, less diluted brush strokes, known as grisaille.

Valentina's artistic inspiration comes from nature. She enjoys observing and picking wild plants and flowers, and she uses the dry-brush watercolor technique to capture their beauty. This technique allows for an excellent degree of detail, similar to drawing with brushes. Throughout the course, Valentina will show you how to use this alternative approach to watercolor and create your own nature portraits.

• About Me
• Influences
• Tools and Materials
• Choice of Subjects
• Preparation of the Grisaille
• Clear and Dark Lighting
• The First Drafts and Composition
• Defining the Palette and Preparing the Color
• Dry Brush
• Basic Volumes
• Details and Texture 1
• Details and Texture 2
• Grass
• Background
• Retouching and Glazing
• Watercolor Painting: Explore Dry Brush Techniques