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Watercolour Painting for Beginners: Washes, Mixing and Landscapes

Watercolour Painting for Beginners: Washes, Mixing and Landscapes

Learn watercolour from scratch: control water and brush, lay smooth washes, mix clean colours, keep your whites, and paint skies, trees, water, flowers and landscapes. 52 written lessons plus 10 practice downloads.

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Expiry period	Lifetime
Made in	English
Last updated at	Fri Oct 2026
Level	Beginner
Total lectures	62
Total quizzes	10
Total duration	12:42:00 Hours
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Short description	Learn watercolour from scratch: control water and brush, lay smooth washes, mix clean colours, keep your whites, and paint skies, trees, water, flowers and landscapes. 52 written lessons plus 10 practice downloads.
Outcomes	Choose paints, brushes and paper with confidence and set up a simple, safe painting space Control how much water is on your brush and paper, and lift and correct paint Lay flat, graded and variegated washes, paint wet-on-wet and build layers Mix clean colours, natural greens, greys and darks from a limited palette of eight colours Plan values, save whites with masking fluid and paint from light to dark Use dry brush, lifting, texture, hard and soft edges and negative painting Paint skies, clouds, trees, hills, water, flowers, still life and buildings Plan a composition with thumbnails, paint outdoors safely and complete a finished painting of your own
Requirements	No painting experience needed A small set of watercolour paints, two or three brushes and 300gsm watercolour paper (lessons 1.2 and 1.3 explain what to buy; the course uses a limited palette of eight colours) Two jars of water, kitchen roll, masking tape and a board to tape your paper to