Their Watercolor Classes are guided while each student uses the same reference picture or subject. You will be tutored step by step towards finishing your own amazing painting within a single session. If you have any doubts as to Vincent’s skill with the paintbrush, one glimpse of his jaw-dropping gallery will soon dispel them! This 8-week course is designed to help you discover more about yourself as an artist, develop new skills to build on your techniques and be a place for you to meet like-minded creatives within the city. By the end of this course, you will have a solid understanding of watercolour as a medium, you’ll be part of a larger community of local artists. …and the best part? You’ll walk away with a portfolio of your own work! Run by Vincent and his wife Liana, Artime offers art tuition for all abilities, including those with learning difficulties. Hands-on lessons in the course’s workspace and materials section teach you how to choose the right brush, paper, palette, paint, and even the right water jar! You’ll also learn a ton of valuable information about palette layout, layering, color families, and how to choose which colors you’ll use.

First up is this quirky watercolor class on Domestika taught by illustrator and artist Ana Victoria Calderon based in Mexico City. Roma Widger has been teaching an impressive array of different art genres for over 20 years. So, whatever takes your creative fancy, you can be sure Roma will help you improve upon it! Jill also introduces you to other characteristics of paint like lifting, reworkability, and flow. The next three sections of the course cover (in great detail) the properties of pigments, the properties of water, and the properties of painting surfaces. Learn how to adapt your image for linocut, and which materials give the best results. Carve using the beautiful tools from your take-home kit included for free when you do the course. I started learning watercolor in adult and community college classes that included proficient and advanced students but very few beginners. Most of the demonstrations were way over my head, so it was ‘catch as catch can’, and I felt discouraged, floundering and lost. I found Jane Blundell’s on-line ‘Mastering Watercolor’ class through an article in the Urban Sketching Zine, and I am SO glad I did. Her lessons are so well-organized! The lessons build skills step-by-step with very clear and detailed explanations and several topics are combined in each lesson. Jane is very responsive to questions and makes the on-line ‘conversation’ easy and friendly. Her recommended color palette and extensive color exercises have helped me to understand how to combine colors and get harmonious & predictable results. My confidence and pleasure in painting have increased so much! Now that I have the basics, I can enjoy my local in-person classes. Painting is fun, as it should be! I highly recommend ‘Mastering Watercolor’ and look forward to taking more of Jane’s on-line classes in future!"This is one of the best online watercolor classes if you are looking for a great all-around introduction to the medium as well as useful drawing and painting techniques. Molly Murrah, an experienced watercolor enthusiast and accomplished watercolor artist, will lead this comprehensive and informative Creative Live course. Online watercolor classes for beginners are a great way to get started with this art medium. While it might sound daunting to learn watercolor at home, choosing a basic watercolor class that teaches the fundamentals can help students learn simple techniques that can be used for more advanced painting in the future.

The best source of free watercolor tutorials is YouTube. Here are a few of my favorite watercolor YouTube channels to get you started: Flowers are a beautiful subject, but there’s so much more to the natural world begging to be painted. Emma Burleigh has a wealth of experience painting with watercolours and understands how daunting it can be to paint from your imagination. Her workshops are focused around students gaining confidence in their creativity as well as seeing art and painting as an ultimately joyful experience.We will start with exploring the role of line, then move on to letting the watercolour flow and then bring both elements together. Whether you wish to use this technique for portraits, landscapes, urban sketching, animals, still life or flora, you will learn how to capture many different subjects. It will bring my best selling book ‘Painting in line and wash’ to life. You do not need to be an experienced watercolourist to enjoy this day. You may wish to bring reference to work on your own composition in the afternoon.