Watercolour for Beginners: Session Ten

A final project together for this course with plenty of opportunities to experiment and discover where you would like to go from here.

What you will learn this session:

  • Preparing your drawing

  • What to leave out of a composition

  • Waterproof and water-soluble sketching pens

  • An ‘Elegant’ writer

  • Layering colour for drama

  • Atmospheric shadows

  • Introducing White Gouache

The equipment you will need in addition to previous sessions:

(Please note that this was filmed in 2021 and I have possibly altered the equipment I now use due to manufacture and availability. My online shop on this website has the most up to date versions of what I now recommend)

The tutorial:

Where to go from here:

I hope that you now feel you have the confidence to start really exploring other projects and be able to start tackling subjects that you find inspiring.

I would love you to join me for any of the tuition that you find in the ‘Learning to Paint’ menu at the top of this website, it might be something pre-recorded or a live event either online or face-to-face. If you have any queries at all, please get in touch and I will be happy to help, Ali

An Elegant Writer pen
White Gouache paint

You will also need to download this image and print it out, as described in the previous session and further details are given at the start of the tutorial.

Download the image HERE

Ali’s completed painting: