Expressive Watercolor Portraits: Creating Fresh Modern Portraits

This class is about learning to work loosely with watercolours to create a portrait, exploring playfully, rather than starting with a preconceived idea. We will of course, go over some basic watercolour techniques, needed for this class, but the emphasis will be on discovering and enjoying the creation of our portrait.

Creating a portrait in this way allows you to have fun and frees you from "it" having to look a certain way. You can become more comfortable with "happy accidents" and you will also learn how to fix the not so happy ones. It requires no under drawing, so you can achieve attractive results on a shorter time.

You can also apply this loose, fun technique to other subject matter: like flowers, fruit or anything else you like to render in a playful free manner.

The only materials you need are some watercolour paints, thick watercolour paper and a round brush.

Let's explore together!

• Introduction
• Project
• Materials
• Watercolor Basics: Washes
• Watercolor Basics:Brushstrokes
• Mixing Skin and Lip Colors
• Mixing Neutrals
• The Eyes
• The Nose
• The Lips
• The Hairline and Countours of the Face
• Defining and Refining
• The Hair
• Other Fun Stuff
• Tips and Bonus
• Final thoughts