In addition to FREE YouTube tutorials, I offer in-depth watercolor and gouache classes on my Patreon and SkillShare. Each class contains a variety of reference materials, including: black & white outlines, step-by-step photos, painting supplies and pigment alternatives. Below you will find a list of all available classes, along with a summary of key learnings and techniques we will practice together.
PATREON: Real-time tutorials with step-by-step explanations
Join me any time and have unlimited access to 35+ real-time tutorials + 6 technique videos {120+ hours of instruction}. In addition, you will get access to our private Facebook group, and priority attention to your Direct Messages {vs. other social media platforms}. New compositions are added on a regular basis, and You can cancel / pause the subscription at any time. All proceeds go directly to support me and my channel, including upgrading the video and audio equipment.
Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: Glazing to build depth and volume; Blooming effects with granulating pigments; Wet-on-dry for gorgeous feather textures.
Size: 9 x 12 inches
Time: 3 hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: Wet-on-wet and negative painting for feathers; Wet-on-damp for flower petals and leaf veins; painting realistic greenery.
Size: 12 x 12 inches
Time: 4+ hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: Wet-on-damp; Wet-on-wet; painting flower stems.
Size: 12 x 12 inches {could fit on 9 x 12}
Time: 3 hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, negative painting.
Size: 12 x 12 inches
Time: 5 hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: Beginner-Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: Wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, painting snow and feathers.
Size: 12 x 12 inches
Time: 2.5 hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: Color temperature fundamentals; Overlapping layer technique; Painting small details.
Size: 12 x 12 inches
Time: 4 hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: Beginner - Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: Painting white subjects with watercolor, negative painting technique, working with greens.
Size: 9 x 12 inches
Time: 2.5 hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: "Glowing light" under-painting; Light & Shadow to build form; "Softening the Edges" to create atmospheric depth, and other background effects.
Size: 12 x 12 inches
Time: 4 hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: Charging technique, painting flower stems.
Size: 12 x 12 inches {could fit on 9 x 12}
Time: 3 hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: All about watercolor textures, including: Granulation with Salt, Blooming and lifting wet-on-wet for fuzzy texture, and glossy wet-on-dry effects.
Size: 9 x 12 inches
Time: 3 hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: Beginner - Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: Wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, background techniques / atmospheric depth.
Size: 9 x 12 inches
Time: 3 hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: Painting white subjects; capturing light & shadow; understanding different types of shadows and colors that arise inside; adding petal texture.
Size: 10 x 12 inches
Time: 3 hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: planning complex paintings, wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, glazing to create depth, "under-painting" to create a glowing light effect.
Size: 12 x 12 inches
Time: 4.5 hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, wet-on-damp, various feather effects, color theory, negative painting.
Size: 12 x 12 inches
Time: 4 hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: "glowing" under-painting, color temperature, background effects.
Size: 12 x 12 inches
Time: 4 hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, painting feathers: soft and sharp, "recycling the palette", painting greenery.
Size: 12 x 12 inches
Time: 3 hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, glazing, working with fugitive pigments.
Size: 9 x 12 inches
Time: 2 hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, glazing, color temperature, negative painting technique.
Size: 12 x 12 inches
Time: 4 hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: 2 Case Studies: Beginner AND Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: mixing greens, glazing, working with granulating greens, negative painting.
Size: 7 x 9 inches
Time: 2 hours
Skill Level: Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: glazing, wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, negative painting.
Size: 9 x 12 inches
Time: 3 hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: Beginner - Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: Wet-on-wet; wet-on-dry; working with granulating pigments; background effects.
Size: 8 x 10 inches {could be done on 9 x 12}
Time: 2.5 hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-wet; wet-on-dry; painting greenery {detailed focus on various types of tropical leaves and related techniques}, painting feathers, painting eyes.
Size: 12 x 12 inches
Time: 4.5 hours {not counting the drying time}
Skill Level: Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: "Lifting" & Layering {Glazing} technique
Size: 9 x 12 inches
Time: 2.5 hours
Skill Level: Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: "glowing" under-painting, color temperature, background effects.
Size: 12 x 12 inches
Time: 3.5 hours
Skill Level: Beginner-Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: working with black pigments, underpainting technique, various feather techniques.
Size: 7 x 9 inches
Time: 1.5 hours
PATREON: Beginner-friendly tutorials:
Skill Level: Beginner
Key Learnings & Techniques: working with student-grade paints, wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, negative painting.
Size: 7 x 9 inches
Time: 1 hour
Skill Level: Beginner
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-wet, glazing, highlights.
Size: 7 x 9 inches
Time: 1 hour
Skill Level: Beginner
Key Learnings & Techniques: gouache folk art
Size: 7 x 9 inches
Time: 1 hour
Skill Level: Beginner
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-wet, glazing, highlights.
Size: 7 x 9 inches
Time: 1 hour
* this is a free version of the live workshop recording from the 2021 Summer Creative Retreat with Peggy Dean.
Skill Level: Beginner
Key Learnings & Techniques: layering {glazing}
Size: 7 x 9 inches
Time: 1.5 hours
Skill Level: Beginner
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-dry, glazing, ink & watercolor.
Size: 7 x 9 inches
Time: 1 hour
PATREON: "subject-matter" & old tutorials
There are several videos that offer specific subject-matter instruction related to various techniques. These do not include full compositions narrations, but rather focus on important targeted learnings e.g.: how to paint white subjects, how to paint birds, how to paint glowing light etc.
Skill Level: Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: how to work with red pigments: glazing, mixing, color temperature fundamentals.
Size: 12 x 12 inches
Time: 3 hours
Skill Level: Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: working with white subjects, light & shadow.
Size: 12 x 18 inches
Time: 2 hours
Skill Level: Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-dry, painting feathers.
Size: 12 x 18 inches {this is a part of the White Peony composition above}
Time: 1 hour
Skill Level: Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: "glowing" under-painting, color temperature, background effects.
Size: 8 x 10 inches
Time: 2.5 hours
Skill Level: Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: "glowing" under-painting, color temperature, background effects.
Size: 12 x 12 inches
Time: 4 hours
Skill Level: Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: "glowing" under-painting, color temperature, background effects.
Size: 12 x 12 inches
Time: 4 hours
SKILLSHARE CLASSES
I also offer a variety of watercolor and gouache classes on the Skillshare platform. Unlike Patreon, this annual subscription will give you access to my SkillShare classes, along with thousands of other videos from creators from around the world. I receive a small amount of total SkillShare revenue, based on the amount of time you spend watching my classes there.
