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Watercolor 101: Painting the Blue Ridge Mountains!
August 24, 2024 @ 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
$100.00
In this workshop, you will learn all the foundational skills necessary to enjoy painting with watercolors. All while painting your very own gorgeous Blue Ridge Mountain scene!
We’ll cover:
How to choose and prepare materials based on the type of painting you want to make
Basic composition and color selection
Foundational watercolor techniques (like wet on wet, wet on dry, dry on wet, and how the heck to choose which one to use)
Different ways to fix or flow with mistakes
And we’ll learn all of this through hands on experimentation and creation! At the end of this workshop you will leave with:
Your very own beautiful Blue Ridge Mountain Painting, painted by you!
All the basic watercolor skills you need to go home and confidently paint any subject you’d like!
This workshop is for you if:
You have never picked up a paintbrush before, but you want to!
You’ve tried watercolors and didn’t like it/thought it was hard, but you want to give it another shot!
You’re a beginner water colorist looking to refine your skills and get 1:1 feedback on your work.
You just think it sounds fun to spend a few hours making your own blue ridge mountains painting :).
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