Master Watercolor Techniques: Learn to Paint a Pink Watercolor Rose

Painting in watercolour, for me, is all about the transparency. I love to paint watercolour paintings that are full of light and appear to bounce off the paper. I generally don't mix colours. Instead, I blend them on the paper rather than on the palette. This helps to achieve a beautiful translucency that make my paintings glow with light.

Using transparent watercolours, in this class, I'll demonstrate how I painted this beautiful pink rose.

Some of the techniques you will learn in this class:

• How to load the brush with paint
• Work wet on wet
• Work wet on dry
• Laying glazes
• Blending colors on the paper
• Interpreting a reference photo
• Adding detail

You can paint along with me because I have included the line drawing of the rose and the reference photo that I took. This class is suitable for intermediate watercolour painters but beginners will also gain a lot of useful information and experience because I take you step by step, petal by petal, leaf by leaf, in real time, through the entire painting process.

• 1. Trailer
• 2. Supplies
• 3. Preparation
• 4. Initial Washes
• 5. Completing Initial Washes
• 6. Cast Shadows
• 7. Deepening the Colour & Painting the Cup.
• 8. Deepening the Colour with Opera Rose
• 9. The Centre
• 10. Deepening Colour & Tidying Edges
• 11. Painting Edges
• 12. Shape Following Strokes
• 13. Final Stages of the Rose
• 14. Beginning the Leaves
• 15. Washy Leaves
• 16. Leaves at the Front
• 17. Last Minute Details