Watercolor Painting For Beginners | By Award Winning Artist (Udemy.com)

Two full workshops packed in 1 great course | Learn the Essentials | Master the Basics | All the FUN without the FLUFF!

( 210 Reviews )

Created by: Broderick Wong

Produced in 2021

What you will learn

Learn the essentials first before the basics
Understand how watercolor behaves
How much water to use
How to go lighter with your colors
How to go darker with your colors
Master basic techniques
How to avoid washed out paintings
How to avoid patchy, overworked paintings
Paint new activities (No repetitive drills)
Paint Sea and Land Animals (No fruit, vegetables or salads)
How to prepare your puddles
How to do a wash (The right way)
How to blend your washes using 1 color
How to blend your washes using 2 colors
How to make smooth, gradual blends
How to paint in details and features
How to layer or glaze to make your paintings glow
How to paint shadows without getting muddy
How to paint elements like leaves, trees, wood, grass
How to handle your brush to paint simple textures
How to "paint without painting"
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Overall Score : 98 / 100

Course Description

"This is ABSOLUTELY the best water color course that I have ever seen!!!!!!! And believe me I have searched! I was one of those "I can't do that" people, BUT NOT ANYMORE! I would easily give this 10 stars if I could!!!" ~ David MartinezHave you ever tried painting with water before?
Do you want to learn how to make fun, colorful, translucent watercolor paintings?
It's simpler than you think!
Watercolor is a FUN way to paint!
It can swirl and drip, blend and bleed, all of this randomness and free flow, believe it or not,can make painting effortless andopen up many possibilities for your creativity to flow.
It can push you out of your comfort zoneand it can also pull you in to the moment.
Its the only medium that can paint a painting with you.
What that means is,you apply the paint and let the water do the rest.
How cool is that?!
WHO AM I?
Hey there! Broderick here and I paint in watercolor professionally,from simple character designs, to realism, to fun art, even fine art pieces hanging in Museums in Europe.
Ive been a featured artist for a major art supply chain (Youtube: urban sketching broderick wong)Social media loves my quirky watercolor pet portraits (Google: vancouver is awesome broderick wong)Placed first in live watercolor painting competitions (2016 Harmony Festival Plein Air Champion ; 2018 Grand Prix Plein Air Masters Division Champion)The Fabriano InAcquarello 2021, an international watercolor painting conference hosted in Italy,invited me to do an online painting demonstration as an international artist. (Google: "inarte fabriano 2021 brod wong)I've led live watercolor painting workshops for people who have never picked up a brush beforeWHY LEARN FROM ME?
When I started, I knew absolutely nothing about painting or watercolor.
I was doing only black and white portraiture,but I knew that if I wanted to challenge myself and grow,I needed to learn color:
1) I played with watercolor, but it did everything except what I wanted it to2) I experimented with acrylics, but it dried too quickly3) Oils, well, it didn't dry fast enoughI got frustrated. Everything I tried just wasnt for me.
After 1 year, I gave watercolor another chance, but this time, I approached it differently.
I learned from books and non-instructional YouTube videos that I played over and over againbecause I couldnt find any instructors to guide me.
I had to figure it out on my own.
I ruined many watercolor paintings and didnt know how to do them differently.
I experienced many happy accidents, but didnt know how to recreate them successfully.
I persevered and took a handful of workshops and,over a brief period, I developed a certain fluency in reading watercolor.
Watercolor has taught me so much about art, about myself, even about life!
This is why watercolor to me, is for life.
To anyone out there who has tried learning on their own but needs more guidance,to those who have tried their hand at it and need a fresh way of approaching their workflow,to those that don't even have any art background and are looking to try something new,I've been there, and I got you covered.
Fast forward to today, if I could have kick-started a path to success for myself to follow,to learn watercolor painting quicker without making so many mistakes, what would that look like?
Through my experience in teaching myself and others,I have peeled away those layers to its core essence,and it is with this awareness that I present to you:
Watercolor Painting for BeginnersIm excited to help you learn to create watercolor paintings you could be proud of!"Only 5 lessons into this course and I love it! Broderick's videos are fun and informative! The videos have already addressed some of the frustrations I have experienced with watercolors in the past. I am feeling more confident in the fact that I can learn to use watercolors and all the different types of materials available. Excited for this course! Thank you Broderick for sharing what you learned from your own journey with watercolors!" ~ Jade Napier ~o~WHO IS THIS FOR?
Whether you've never picked up a brush before, or if youre hoping to understand the medium better,you'll want to finally learn watercolor the way it's meant to be used.
ARE YOU AN ABSOLUTE BEGINNER?
Are you looking for a new hobby,or maybe youve gathered a collection of watercolor supplies but haven't found the time or courage to paint or maybe youre looking for a break from other more career goal oriented courses?
Are you concerned about buying more than you need or can afford?
Do you learn best through casual conversations instead of formal lectures?
Would you appreciate tips, reminders, directing you through exercises every step of the way?
With watercolor, you don't need a lot of materials to start painting.
I recommend a few decent materials that are not crazy expensive nor are they sub-par-quality cheap.
I've also designed Watercolor Painting for Beginners to be sequential, which means, steps from previous lessons are seamlessly incorporated with the new."I've dabbled in watercolours for years, going to night classes etc and really felt a bit flummoxed by the medium. This course broke it all down into bite size chunks that are really fun to do and I'm learning more per half hour than i did in 20 hrs flailing around on my own. Very good teaching." ~ Susan KuchenbergARE YOU AN ON AND OFF PAINTER?
You've tried watercolor but find it difficult to control, you may need a refresher on watercolor or maybe you need direction because you seem to choose the wrong and complicated things to paint?
Would you appreciate hearing what artists think as they paint?
Do you find painting the same thing over and over boring and tiresome?
Do you appreciate some background information about watercolor, and a progressive build up of technique and application?
If you've painted before, pay special attention to the first 2 lessons. It will provide more structure to the way you paint, so you avoid guesswork or uncertainty, catapulting your confidence to paint with more intention. No matter what your style is, what you learn is essential.
READY TO GO OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE TO LEARN SOMETHING NEW?"The course is a lot of fun and I'm learning a ton, enjoying the balance of a lot of hands-on to "lecture." There's a lot of focus on fundamentals which seems exactly what is needed, and the extensive practice is helping. Believe Broderick when he says do not use student-grade paints! Cheap paints held me back with streaks and blobs I could not control until going out and getting some better paints...
and a lot of my "sloppiness" suddenly improved." ~ George Rogers ~o~THE PROBLEM WITH LEARNINGThere are watercolor painting classes out there that use up hours on soul-crushing lectures and theorybefore putting brush to paper and when you finally do, it's all about repetitive drills,forgett

Time: 7h

Instructor Details

Broderick Wong

4.9 Rating
210 Reviews

Broderick Wong's artistic journey started in Manila with a degree in Marketing from De La Salle University. He found himself deep in Learning and Development as a Management Trainer and while he liked what he did, it wasn't what he loved. In 2009, he left his job to pursue art by enrolling in a basic 3D animation and multimedia course. Eight thousand hours and 1 demo reel later, he abandoned it. Although it was art, there was still something missing. Between 2010 and 2014, he specialized in black and white, graphite Character Portraits.
In 2015, he had discovered watercolors. His journey started with teaching himself the basics. When he reached a decent enough level, he took a few workshops (5 to this date) to enhance his knowledge and skills as a painter. In that process, he had discovered so much about himself, about life and who he was as an artist.
His impressionistic style of watercolors have not only been shown in group exhibitions in Metro Vancouver but in Italy at the 2019 Fabriano in Acquarello International Exhibition as one of the representing artists for Canada (where his painting was further juried into the Fabriano Watercolor Museum) and 2021 Fabriano in Acquarello International Conference as international artist under the Italy Group and demonstrated a painting for the on line demonstration portion of the festival.
Broderick is also an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and the International Watercolor Society (Canada). His mission is