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Holiday ideas

Holiday Poinsettia (6:34)
Snow on a tree (8:04)
Easy Christmas tree (6:54)
Snowman (13:10)
Reindeer Part 1 (3:37)
Reindeer part 2 (7:30)
Red Barn in the Snow (5:03)

Materials - getting started

Material list
About the materials (7:49)
Paper
Paints
Brushes
Setting up your palette
Other supplies
Brushstrokes
Practice brushstrokes with Magic paper (1:06)

Water

How much water to use
Problems with washes

Studio basics

Setting up a studio
Studio lighting conditions

Getting started - Keep it simple

Lilacs (9:31)
Blue Bird (18:53)
Palm trees (30:42)
Salty the Goat - Keep it Simple (11:53)
Simple dragonfly - transparent wings (10:23)

Easy Landscapes

Atmospheric skies
Paint a simple little Garden Cottage
Clouds and wind (6:55)
Simple snowscape
Snow sunrise (27:59)
Barn in Snow (5:03)
Red Barn (11:42)
Snow storm and field of grass (20:07)
Dessert Grassland (76:17)
Soft colorful clouds (2:44)
Morning Beach walk (32:59)
Lagoon - PDF

Sunflowers

Loose Sunflower (11:09)
Field of Sunflowers (3:19)
Sunflowers PDF lesson
Loose Sunflowers (20:46)

Fins, Fur, Feathers

Colorful fish (21:11)
Hummingbird 1 (28:39)
Lamb (31:51)
Duckling (25:48)
Pig (16:57)
Chicks (20:59)
Camelia's cat (7:51)
Zebra 2 Rainbow (16:41)
Zebra 2 reference image
Loose fur - Guinea pig (9:48)
Bunnies (23:33)
Rabbit (22:00)

Sweet Pea

Sweet Pea (46:16)
Reference photo
22"x15" A2 /line drawing
8.25" x11" A4 / line drawing

Edges and texture

Edges
Soft edges, single Bumble bee (11:41)
Soft edges 3 bees (29:26)
Rough edges
Texture
Spatter techniques
Succulent

Shape & Shadow

Value and Shape
Pear PDF lesson
Pears - getting loose (20:18)
Pears with long shadow (41:16)
Bonus - reference photos pears, persimmon shadows, sunflower
Shape - paint a box (6:42)
Apply shape and shadow into an Adobe (17:22)
Shape - Cone PDF
Shape - paint a pot PDF
Challenge - using your own photos

Persimmons

Reference photo
Line drawing
Persimmons (52:28)

Lighthouse

Simple lighthouse (5:20)
Simple lighthouse reference
Lighthouse lesson (68:58)
Lighthouse reference and line drawing (68:58)
More lighthouses

Color theroy - Let's keep this simple

Color theory made easy (53:35)
Interactive color wheel
Simple Butterflies - brushstrokes and color (16:57)
Grey scale, range of values
The Power of Color Keeping it simple
Understanding color
Lifting color
Mixing color
Mixing and blending color directly on paper
Bonus: Mixing directly onto watercolor paper - blank charts
Using complementary colors
Value and color

Pansy and working with complimentary color

Controlling complimentary color
Controlling complimentary color PDF download
Video Lesson: Pansy step 1 (original video)
Video Lesson: Pansy Step 2 (original video)
More from Bold Rich Saturated Color

Water drops

Basic masking
Waterdrop (27:35)
Floral - Water drops and flower bud Naked lily PDF download

Canna & Water drops

Why shape and detail are important
Curling petals 1
Curling petals in a flower
Bonus sheet
Reference photo
22x15 line drawing
15x11 line drawing
Video Lesson: Canna (151:38)

Landscapes

Desert rain (45:26)
Red Rocks (42:49)
Dramatic landscape - PDF
Mountain mist (10:44)

Loose Poppies

California Poppy 1 (21:06)
California Poppy 2 (12:57)

Loose Vineyard

Loose Vineyard 1 (21:12)
Loose Vineyard 2 (23:26)

The shore

Simple wet sand (17:51)
Wet sand haystack (37:19)
Wet Sand (28:16)
Little Shell (2:34)

Sunset & Egret

Sunset Egret reference
Sunset Egret 1 (10:43)
Sunset Egret 2 (15:10)
Sunset Egret 3 (22:03)

Polar Bears

Polar Bear (27:18)
Polar Bear mama (13:49)

Matilija poppy

Matilija Poppy PDF
Reference photo
Matilija poppy line drawing 15x22
Matilija poppy - Shape the petals (9:00)
Matilija poppy - Shadows (8:50)
Matilija poppy - Background (9:56)
Center of the flower (9:42)
Matilija poppy - Final Painting (4:16)
More White Flowers

Tips & strategies

Make the most of reference photos
Putting your design on Watercolor paper
How to make a quick line drawing and enlargement
Using Strokes to Create Shape
Painting Shadows
Glazing or Layering
Negative painting
Creating Backgrounds
Masking Methods

Composition

About compositions (4:29)
Simple composition (8:11)
Principles of art (4:01)
Principles of art PDF
How to get better compositions
Where to find more reference photos

Open Tulip

Open Tulip
11x15 line drawing open tulip
15x22 line drawing open tulip

Boat in calm water

Boat in calm water (43:30)
Boat in calm water - reference
Boat in calm water line drawing

Tomales Bay Boat House

Tomales Bay Boat House about the composition (1:34)
Tomales Bay Boat House lesson (56:40)

Noyo Harbor

Noyo Harbor (68:40)
Reference photo
Line drawing

San Francisco church

San Francisco Church (43:14)
San Francisco Church reference photo

Road in Italy

Road in Italy with a bridge (87:45)
Reference photo
Road to italy line drawing

NWWS Rhododendron

Reference image
NWWS Rhodo 1 (33:34)
NWWS Rhodo 2 (16:08)
NWWS Rhodo 3 (26:40)
NWWS Rhodo 4 (18:36)

Rocks underwater

Rocks underwater 1 (8:57)
Rocks underwater 2 (7:18)
Rocks underwater 3 (10:11)
Rocks underwater 4 (10:55)

White chair

The White Chair - flat brush loose strokes
Chair in the clouds (36:04)

Loose Flowers

Loose Pansy (28:25)
Loose Orchid and negative painting (39:38)
Dogwood (30:25)
More loose flowers

Poppy

Reference
Poppy lesson part 1 (38:31)
Poppy reserve the highlights PDF download

Wild Iris

Reference photo
15x22 line drawing
Wild Iris: PDF download
Controlling color for soft details: Wild Iris
Video Lesson: (original) Wild Iris
Lesson 1 (3:39)
Lesson 2 (11:38)
Lesson 3 (5:49)
Lesson 4 (7:05)
Lesson 5 (6:31)
Lesson 6 (6:53)

White Tulips

White Tulips PDF download
Reference photos
White Tulips 1 (11:22)
White Tulips 2 (4:26)
White Tulips 3 (38:26)
White Tulips 4 (27:05)
White Tulip 5 (17:00)

Bold Hibiscus

Reference photos
Bonus Worksheet
15x22 line drawing - option 1
11x15 line drawing - option 2
Introduction Hibiscus (1:30)
Lesson 1 (14:13)
Lesson 2 (10:53)
Lesson 3 (8:36)
Lesson 4 (6:55)
Lesson 5 (8:30)
End (0:13)
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Figures - the Boys

Figure master material list
Hanging out - the Boys
Hanging out, the boys lesson (34:05)
Reference photo

Figures

Kevi reference photo
Line drawing
Kevi lesson (43:30)
More portraits and figures

Bonus deomstrations

Demonstrations
Trees & values / demonstration lesson (19:43)
Lavender field (8:42)
Bunny (22:17)
Magnolia (43:33)
Puffy clouds (8:04)
Just a little more
How to paint a sheep
Snow (14:00)
Simple desert (16:59)
Adding color to a white lily

Casablanca Lily

Material list
Line drawing
Transfer to watercolor paper
Reference image
Casablanca the compostion (1:55)
Casablanca 1 lesson (13:34)
Casablanca 2 lesson (31:12)
Casablanca 3 lesson (17:11)
Casablanca 4 lesson (10:48)

Lost & Found edges

Lost & Found edges (23:45)

Featured lesson - Loose landscape

Loose mountain and trail (34:00)
Reference material
More Wet & Wild painting

Wet & Wild Poppies

Wet & Wild Poppies (34:48)
Reference photo

Commonweal overlook

Commonweal photo reference (1:13)
Finished painting
Line drawing
Commonweal lesson (28:06)

Loose painting desert

Loose sky 1 (14:22)
Loose 2 sky & desert (10:45)

Christines Dock

Christines Dock (16:48)
Reference photos

Clouds demo

Clouds looking up how to apply to a painting (25:05)

Orchid demo

Lesson (10:39)
Reference image
Experiment with backgrounds (8:09)

Tips and demonstrations

Compositional ideas for a field of flowers. (19:14)
Field of Sunflowers (3:19)
Reference photos of California poppies
Technique's - Working with a flat brush (13:23)

More

Demonstration Dogwood flower
Greens are Good for You
How to build and layer color (8:22)
How to find and abstract a composition (7:59)
Change your composition - Old Boats (14:04)
Flowers Gladiolus - How to view a composition (25:02)

Selected painting reviews

Painting review (42:50)
Painting review

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