In this short video you can find out more about the course and its contents.

The course is aimed at people with no previous experience of painting in watercolours. Liz painting in a loose energetic style and the course  will help you develop the skills, experience and confidence to start painting your our subjects. All the techniques are transferable, so don't be put off if you don't like the idea of painting a tree or seahorse!

Liz will start by explaining what materials you need and she suggests you watch this film before buying anything, to avoid exensive mistakes. Then step by step, she will take you through exercises to develop your own skills and style.

 If you have enjoyed this course and share the work you've done on it, please make sure to tag me on social media (@lizchaderton on Instagram and /lizchadertonartist on Facebook) so I can get to see it too! It would be great if you could say that it is from this course, as that helps spread the word.

If you are not a member already, why not join Watercolour Studio over on Facebook? https://www.facebook.com/groups/694706731930461 And finally, you should not exhibit or display pieces completed on this course without my written permission, to comply with copyright law. I really look forward to seeing what you do. 

In our first complete landscape, we make things a little easier for ourselves by concentrating on composition, techniques and tone and forgetting colour.

A single colour painting (monochrome) really lets us focus on our new skills, rather than worrying about matching the perfect blue for the perfect sky, or the exact green for the trees.

The lesson is in two parts, due the length of the film.

Tone may be important, but let's be honest, it is colour that gets us excited!

In this section we take a short look at the colour wheel, and the importance of primary, secondary and complimentary colours.

It is not a comprehensive exploration of colour - that would be a whole course by itself - but will act as a foundation for your future colour exploration.

Time to let the colour and water play on the paper!

In this topic we use a simple feather as our subject. It will start to train our eye to look like an artist; to see what is important, to overcome assumptions and to get to the heart of the subject.

We will use wet up to wet to paint, letting the colours flow together. We will also explore ways in which control whether edges are hard or soft can make a huge difference to the final painting.

Time to put your new knowledge into action in this tropical painting.

We will complete a soft wet in wet sky and work towards the foreground, before using wet up to wet to paint colourful silhouettes. 

This is a simple, but effective, landscape which will teach us so much.

We have seen how the white of the paper becomes the lightest area in our painting. It is all very well to paint around areas, but what happens if you want to paint a complex light subject against a dark background?

You will need to use masking fluid (also known as frisket).

In this section, Liz takes you through the pros and cons of masking fluid and the dos and don'ts. We then put it into practice in a beautiful painting of a Japanese cherry tree.

It's time to see how all our learning and skills are transferable to a totally new subject. You've painting a still life, trees, landscapes but now you will paint an animals.

In this portrait of a seahorse you will go through every stage of the painting from planning to final details.