Art For Mental Wellbeing: Watercolour Painting

63 lectures with 4 hours of video content plus supporting PDF materials

• Discover the pleasure you will get from playing with paint
• Learn how painting can help you relax
• Create a picture for yourself or as a gift
• You will be able to paint a three dimensional object.
• This course is for anyone who wishes to reduce their stress levels using watercolour painting techniques

This watercolour painting course will help to improve mental well-being and confidence by showing you the pleasure that can be gained from playing and working with paint. This course will give you the confidence to experiment with paint and help you to use painting techniques to relax.

Led by Nicola Blakemore, who is a self taught artist that thrives on bringing the creative side out of her students. Nicola believes that many people would like to make art by painting, but many don't even try in their adult years because they 'believe' that they don't have a talent, don't know any technical stuff and more likely than not, somewhere along the line somebody told them they weren't any good at it!

This course will encourage you to open your mind to creative and playful art that will enable you to relax and take a more positive view of your art work and life. With no one looking over your shoulder and no expectations you will find you are learning through play and gaining the confidence to do more. Most of all just enjoy the pleasure of painting!

Course Outline

Introduction

• Course Overview
• Say hi to your fellow students!
• Share your new course with your friends!

Follow one step at a time and Enjoy Learning to Paint

• What is Playcedure?
• Reasons to Paint and Play
• Watercolour basics
• An Introduction to Watercolour Paints
• An Introduction to Watercolour Papaer
• Art Suppliers
• The Practical Stuff

Let's Get Started

• Start by Making a Frame
• Let's Start Painting
• Paint What comes into Your Head

Some ideas to make your painting more interesting

• Get Creative
• You decide when it's finished
• Doodling or Meditation?

Now Create Your First Painting

• Mixing Greens
• Lets start at the beginning - A is for Apple
• Starting to Paint the Apple
• Adding Depth Of Colour And The Shadow-1 (1)
• Finishing
• Apple - using waterclour pencils
• No Pen Lines - Just a Super Apple 1
• No Pen Lines - Just a Super Apple
• Watercolour Painting More Fruit
• What have you Learnt?
• Apricots

Cherries

• A cluster of cherries Part 1
• A cluster of cherries Part 2
• A cluster of cherries Part 3
• A cluster of cherries Part 4
• Lemon

Let's paint a bowl to put the fruit in

• Create the bowl - part 1
• Create The Bowl - part 2
• Placing the fruit in the bowl
• Painting The Fruit - Part 1
• Painting The Fruit - Part 2
• Painting The Fruit - Part 3

Paint your own GREETING CARDs

• Christmas Cards
• Fir Trees
• Thanksgiving Part 1
• Thanksgiving Part 2
• Thanksgiving Part 3
• Snowman - Part 1
• Snowman - Part 2
• Snowman - Part 3

Top Tips & Conclusion

• Common Sense really...but just in case....
• The Secrets of Shadows - Be Consistent
• Using an adjustable mount to study your painting
• Embellishing or disguising a marked or damaged mount
• Get the paint Back in the tube
• Blowing my Own Trumpet
• Concluding Words