Welcome to our Winterscapes Watercolour Mini Course
A complete mini watercolour painting course. Create a lovely snow scene in watercolour, using white paper reserving and a simple snowflake paint effect with a difference! This step by step course is suitable for anyone wishing to try watercolour or practise painting snow.
In addition you have access to our watercolour reference video, with lots of useful advice and info on materials and technique demos. So whether you’re a beginner or more experienced, this complete course has everything you need to create beautiful snow scenes.
The online courses are designed to be used independently. Work at your own pace and replay as many times as you like.
Please use the following passwords to access your video content, please note they are case sensitive:
Falling Snow – watercolour: Snow (Video length: 38 mins)
Basics of watercolour : Colour1 (Video length: 48 mins)
Don’t forget to watch the video on full screen! Enter your password then click on the square icon(bottom right) to enter and exit full screen mode. You may need to turn the sound on – roll over the top right of the screen and the sound button will appear.
We hope you enjoy your painting course! If you have any queries please contact us via email. We’d love to see your creations, feel free to send your paintings in to us to feature on our social media!
Many thanks and happy painting!
Jessie, Discovery Art Class
Basics of watercolour -Techniques
This reference video has lots of useful information, explaining and demonstrating watercolour paint from the very beginning. Suitable for beginners or anyone wanting to brush up on their techniques.
Winterscapes Watercolour – Falling Snow
A lovely snow scene in watercolour, using reserving of white paper and a snowflake paint effect with a difference!
MATERIALS
- Pencil – HB ( for sketching)
- Rubber and ruler – any ordinary pencil rubber and ruler
- Watercolour paper
- Watercolour brushes
- Watercolour paint
- Board
- Masking tape
- Water jar
- Mixing palette
- Rock salt
Downloadable Materials list -with useful info and facts on your chosen medium, suggestions of what to buy, and links to suggested suppliers. Please note that the links will take you to another company’s website, which is outside of DAC data control,
Please click below to download:
REFERENCE IMAGE
Photo of the finished painting for reference. Or feel free to use your own.