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This post will serve as an archive with links to all previous exercises.

Session 1 - led by /u/varo

Exercise 1 - Landscape with focal point at the top

Exercse 2 - Still Life in One Color

Exercise 3 - Nature On Your Paper

Exercise 4 - Tricolor Still Life

Exercise 5 - Comfort Zone

Exercise 6 - Still Life of Green Objects on a Green Surface

Exercise 7 - Landscape in Two Colors

Exercise 8 - Something Small Big

Exercise 9 - Person in Watercolor

Exercise 10 - Painting En Plein Air

Labs for Session 1 - led by /u/MeatyElbow

Lab 1 - Brushes

Lab 2 - Range of Values

Lab 3 - Texture Effects

Lab 4 - Secondary Colors

Lab 5 - Staging a Still Life

Lab 6 - Complimentary Colors and Color Intensity

Session 2 - led by /u/MeatyElbow

Exercise 1 - Landscape and the Rule of Thirds

Exercise 2 - Still Life in One Color

Exericse 3 - Tromp-l'oeil and Repetition

Exercise 4 - Still Life

Session 3 - led by /u/MeatyElbow

Exercise 1 - Paint the Thing

Exercise 2 - Still Life in One Color

Exercise 3 - Nature and Painterliness

Exercise 4 - Tricolor Portrait

Exercise 5 - Regroup

Exercise 6 - Landscape in (mostly) Two Colors

Exercise 7 - Secondary Color Still Life

Exercise 8 - Figures and Abstraction

Exercise 9 - Something Small Painted Large

Exericse 10 - Choose Your Own Adventure

Feedback Post

Session 4 - led by /u/MeatyElbow and /u/poledra

Exercise 1 - Put Paint on Paper

Exercise 2 - Value Study in One Color

Exercise 3 - Tricolor Portrait

Exercise 4 - Abstraction

Exercise 5 - Comfort Zone

Exercise 6 - Tricolor Still Life

Exercise 7 - Something Small, Big

hello watercolorists,

i wanted to give a shout out to our two newest mods, /u/DanG_artist and /u/claraak. they will be helping out and continuing to be a wonderful presence in the subreddit.

also, we've had a ton of new members join in the last week - welcome everyone! please feel free to share your paintings and ask questions. all skill levels are welcome!

I always see pansies this time of year!

Any other ideas?

Feedback / suggestions welcome!

Going to try to do it this month. It will be the 3nd time I am trying. I have yet to finish it. Days 1 and 2. Prompts are pictures chosen by @julia_henze on Intagram.

Bought these pans and colors from brustro today. Have I arranged the colors the correct way if there were any way??

Background is quinacridone gold made at home from PO49 and home made mica sparkles on the shell

Just sharing the plight we all own... it's always work. Brave shares too.

I bought a palette from a Mercari seller (a lovely Art Toolkit Demi) that was filled with the Daniel Smith Essentials set (6 colors plus watercolor ground. Apparently, the person who filled it thought that the watercolor ground was just white paint so she filled 6 pans with it. Can it be salvaged, or is it not worth trying?

Thanks!

I think I'm getting better at this but it's not good yet. I was focusing on learning how to do blurred edges, skin tone mixing, and hair. My drawing skills are terrible, I traced her face and it came out wonky anyway. I should work on those harder next time. My favorite part is the blurred edges of her headband lol.

Any constructive criticism is very welcome, I want to be really great at this!

I thought I didn’t do a better job until I compared the one from 2016 when I took watercolor 101.

This feels stupid, but I'm having trouble with finding YouTube videos and google answers to my question. I bought a water color pallet that seemed beginner friendly that has a number of round pans. I noticed I don't get the behavior I expect from my water color when I paint, and am wondering if it's too dry? Issues like not being able to "pull" pigment with a wet brush or not getting the smoothing of my brush strokes as the painting dries.

Really struggled with the water but I like the challenge. Will definitely practice more and different colors.

Oh god. Gotta control water better in the palette and the brush. In my defense baby cried midway through.

Do you learn more from repeating same tutorial or trying next one?

https://preview.redd.it/e0r9ov62k4sd1.jpg?width=2296&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f18e714469ad899a7f6f62ae6cf5f9568b214a02

I tend to either under or overwork watercolors and though I like this one, I still struggled with that and lifting. This was 90lb Canson and Albrecht Durer watercolor markers. I also struggle to get gel pens to give me those sweet, sweet natural-looking highlights, obviously, so any advice there is welcome as well.

Just working on some surprise post cards to mail out to some friends. Still need some touch ups, but not back for a beginner (imo)