Painting Watercolours on Canvas
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Introduction to Painting Watercolours on Canvas

Painting Watercolours on Canvas - is this course the right one for you?
'Painting Watercolours on Canvas' - contents of each module
Materials list - what you need to complete this course
Materials and preparation

What is watercolour ground?
The advantages of preparing your own canvas for watercolour
A simple recipe for watercolour ground
How to prepare your own watercolour canvas
Brands of watercolour ground and canvases available worldwide
Warming up our watercolours

Getting used to working on watercolour ground
How to grid up a sketch or photo to transfer it to canvas
Photo of the warming up exercises for reference
Photo of the warming up exercises for reference - second example
Links for finding online gridding tools
Top tips for painting watercolours on canvas
Tone

Controlling the tone of our watercolour - tonal strip exercise
Photo of completed tonal strips
Painting a monochrome on canvas - part 1
Painting a monochrome on canvas - part 2
Reference photo of sparrow
Sparrow reference - black and white
Sparrow monochrome painting
Photo of the green ram shown in the film
Photo of blue fox shown in the film
Creating the illusion of textures - tips and tricks

Experimenting and creating the illusion of texture
Photo of different texture samples - 1
Photo of different texture samples - 2
Using textural techniques on canvas - abstract birch trees
Birch reference photo - blue version
Birch reference photo - yellow version
Original birch tree reference
Abstracted birch painting
Colourful cow - putting everything learnt so far into practice

Planning and thumbnail sketch
Thumbnail sketch version 1
Thumbnail sketch version 2
Reference photo of cows
Reference photo of cows - black and white
Starting to paint the first layer - part 1
Starting to paint the first layer - part 2
Developing the second layer
Adding the final details
Photo of the final cow painting
How to layer successfully on canvas - using AQUA Fix

A quick introduction to AQUA Fix
Planning and thumbnail sketch
Painting the nest - part 1
Painting the nest - part 2
Painting the nest - part 3
Reference photo of nest and eggs
Photo of final nest painting
Creating a textured canvas

Creating a textured surface
How to layer successfully on canvas - using Indian ink

Exploring how Indian ink behaves on watercolour ground
Example reference sheet of Indian ink - version 1
Example reference sheet of Indian ink - version 2
Planning and thumbnail sketch
The ink layer - part 1 v2
The ink layer - part 2
The ink layer - part 3
Moving onto watercolour
Finishing off the kingfishers
Reference photo of kingfishers - colour
Reference photo of kingfishers - black and white
Thumbnail sketch
Photo of kingfishers - completed ink under painting
Photo of final kingfishers
Sealing and finishing

Sealing and finishing
List of useful information, resources and groups

Photo of the warming up exercises for reference

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