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Botanical Watercolor Painting for Beginners

In today’s post, I wanted to discuss one of my favorite art forms: botanical watercolors. There’s something magical about capturing the delicate beauty of nature on paper, isn’t there? The vibrant hues, intricate details, and organic shapes all combine to create a stunning pieces of art that can brighten up any space.

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Winsor & Newton Watercolor Tutorial - “Northern Lights”

This Northern Lights watercolor tutorial is going to be so much fun! On January 17 at 1 PM CT, I’ll be going live with Winsor & Newton to offer this 100% free watercolor class. Join me in this Paint-With-Me style watercolor tutorial session hosted by Winsor & Newton and Michaels Craft stroes, where we’ll explore bright and dark colors for this exciting piece.

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Free Watercolor Tutorials For Beginners

Watercolor painting can be intimidating and with so much variety of brush, paints, paper, palettes… you get the idea, I’ve decided to create a new resource to help demystify, give you guidance and show you how you can easily get started painting using watercolors.

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Color Mixing Lesson: My 5 Favorite Watercolors To Paint With

These are seriously my top 5 watercolors to paint with! I can mix every color I need to paint leaves, stems, florals and more! If you are just starting out and are looking for a few tubes of colors that you can get started with, have a look at the ones that I show you in this tutorial!

Check out the video below and if you’re a fan of YouTube, don’t forget to subscribe here!

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Watercolor Peony Tutorial For Beginners

These tutorials are meant to give you a taste of what is possible with the right tools and techniques! If your goal is to great painting rituals that make you feel excited to sit down to paint, then I invite you to come paint with me and experience first hand how gratifying the ritual of the process really is!

Modern Watercolors for beginners is open for a few more days then it’s gone until the fall!

A self paced, video based class that you have lifetime access to as I updated and add to the course!

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Modern Watercolor for Beginners is open!

Over the last few months I’ve had some great conversations with fellow watercolor enthusiasts about how intimidating watercolor painting can be especially if you’ve never picked up watercolors before and if you don’t consider yourself to be artistic!

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