Watercolor Painting For Intermediates I Techniques & Effects (Udemy.com)

Visual demonstrations are good. Very easy to follow for anybody interested in exploring watercolor. Have not completed course but, in my opinion, this is beginner friendly. Hopefully toward end of course, there is something challenging for intermediate and advanced watercolorists. However, always good to go back to basics, regardless of your skill level.

The course was great! Starting water olor on my own was frustrating. The simplicity of the course was calming. This is the third course of Broderick's I have taken and am impressed with his videography skills and the ability to teach to an audience of newbies. Only reason I did not give a full 5 is because the videos kept pausing. This has never happened on any of my other udemedy courses. Could have been on this end, not sure.

Thank you for the course. It has been very helpful but despite using the cotton paper that you recommended I had a lot of trouble with the paper buckling which often made my paintings a bit of a disappointment. I have learned a bit about using water but keen to get used to it so that I am a bit more confident. Barbara

This course was a great match for me! I loved every moment of it. Broderick is a very patient instructor who makes every lecture easy to understand. I took my time and did all the activities several times, getting more proficient each time. I am very satisfied with this course and look forward to taking all of the courses offered by Broderick.

I have tried to learn wet on wet different ways, but this course was the most enjoyable and effective in the shortest time. The techniques are taught in a simple and accessible way. I was amazed by the paintings I was able to produce so quickly! Broderick is a very good teacher - he is engaging and positive. There is clearly a lot of effort in the course: for example, the effects and animation help make it more engaging. My only criticism is I wish it were longer, but at the same time I know can redo these exercises to get more practice.

I think Broderick is an amazing teacher, I cannot recommend this course enough as well as the Wet on Dry Beginners course. I ❤️ his method so much that I have purchased all of this 4 courses and am part way through the third one. There are many courses out there I have tried but nothing compares to these ones. I do hope he makes some more courses by the time I finish the last course!!! Thankyou Broderick for this awesome experience.️

When I was brand new to watercolor, I took Broderick's first course with a similar name, and it gave me a solid foundation in essential wet-on-dry skills. A year later, I'm mostly working with tutorials and just starting to create original paintings, but I use those skills all the time. I thought this course was a lot weaker. It is still worthwhile, but I didn't learn as much, I was frustrated pretty often, and I didn't have as much fun. Here's why: 1) It only covers one application of wet-on-wet The entire course is about using WOW to create tie-dyed effects inside a solid shape. That's fun, but it's only a small part of what WOW can do, and IMO, not as useful as other ways to use WOW. I think using wet-on-wet to create soft-edged shapes is more important to know as you grow as a painter. Obviously, that's going to depend on your personal style and what you want to paint, but in the tutorials and books I've used over the past year, soft edges show up a LOT: trees, clouds, fur, etc. Tie-dyed effects inside a shape are used too, but not nearly as much. 2) I didn't like the projects The projects in Broderick's first course were fun, super cute, and even gift-worthy for kids or adults who appreciate the cartoony style. This course's projects didn't have as much personality, and I thought the color combinations were ugly. I also didn't learn anything by doing the projects that I didn't learn during the practice exercises in section 5. (I already had wet-on-wet experience, though, so if you're brand new to WOW, you might get more out of it than I did.) In the first course, the projects included new tips, tricks, and tidbits, but that wasn't the case here. I am always up for repetition for the sake of improvement, but working on projects that I didn't like without learning anything new took a lot of the joy out of the process. I felt like I was just going through the motions. 3) Less detail, and missing crucial cues Like Broderick's first course, this one does a great job of explaining the concepts in the instructional sections. Unlike the first course, though, he doesn't explain very much during the project demos. He rarely explained WHY he was using a particular technique or placing color in a particular place. From my previous experience, I could sometimes tell that he was doing that to create form, shadow, or defined edges, but he only occasionally said so. I would have learned more from the projects if he had called that out. He also gave fewer cues to help the viewer notice when he changed brushes, changed colors, switched from paint to water, or mixed two colors on the palette. I'd estimate that he gave a voice-over or on-screen text cue at most 1 in 3 times. If you blink or focus on the paint on the paper (instead of the brush) for half a second, you can easily miss it. This made following along while painting especially difficult - you can't watch his brush and your own paper at the same time! Since WOW painting is super time-sensitive, rewinding 30 seconds in the Udemy app while your paint dries is not ideal. I watched every video in full before attempting the projects myself, so I found this super frustrating. I have produced instructional videos myself, and I know that it takes a heroic amount of editing to achieve this level of production quality. I just wish he had spent more of that time on cuing rather than cool but unnecessary visual effects. Overall, I would recommend this course to two types of people: 1) Tie-dye effect fans If you really like that look, and think you will use that technique a lot, you'll get a lot out of this course. Buy it now! 2) If you're not fully comfortable with wet-on-wet (AND it's on sale) Understanding the difference between domed and drenched has been HUGELY helpful for me, and I think that lesson alone made this course worth buying on sale. I'd recommend that you work through sections 1-5 (materials, concepts, practice applications), and then skim the rest of the projects and paint them only if you like them or want more practice. For either group: feel free to change the colors if you don't like them. Unlike the first course, the color choices aren't relevant to the technique being covered, so you can swap in any color with similar values (light/dark).

Absolute joy to paint using his classes. I couldn’t do anything when I started and he has me do things I never thought I could. I ever had a family member ask for one of the paintings to frame and hang up in her house. I want so happy with my progress but them asking for my painting reminded me of him saying not perfection but progress. Love it,

Mr. Wong, this course, as well as the one for beginners, are really excellent. The explanations are clear and concise and you include a lot of practice from easier to more difficult. I felt I improved and I have new tools to continue. I am waiting for more courses as it is a pleasure to follow your instructions and make practice pleasant. Thank you!

This course segues nicely from the beginner course. Very informative, and well edited, although I would've liked brighter colours (it's so gloomy outside already!) and more instruction on different ways of utilising the w.o.w method. Using a spray bottle on the piece, for example, or adding gravity to the mix. That said, I enjoyed the course very much. Kudos to the instructor!