By Mary Ann Boysen For the a portion of my career, I taught watercolor lessons across the USA (including Alaska, Sanibel, Naples, Hilton Head, Kiawah Island, Steamboat Springs) and around the world (San Miguel, Mexico; Paris, Giverny, Provence, France; Tuscany, Venice, Greece and Turkey; Hawaii, Trinidad, in the Caribbean, and the most recent, South Africa and Sparrow Village).   I've taken students with me on these trips so they can learn watercolor painting while seeing some of the most amazing subjects in person. I get a great deal of pleasure out of seeing the world and seeing my students learn in these interesting environments outside of the classroom.  But not everyone can fit these travels into their schedule, or budget. And I can't travel to all of the places that request that I come to teach. So, I've decided to provide watercolor painting lessons on this site. Hopefully, this website will help you get started.  Watercolor Painting Lesson 1: Learn About Paper and Brushes Lesson 2: Value Scale Lesson 3: Stretching Watercolor Paper Lesson 4: Painting Watercolor Horizsons Lesson 5: Dramatic Skies Lesson 6: Watercolor Painting without Drawing Lesson 7: Negative Shapes and Perspective Lesson 8: Brightening the Winter Watercolor Landscape Lesson 9: Watercolor Glazing (layering paint for effect) Lesson 10: Watercolor Figures and Faces Lesson 11: Watercolor Painting Crystal Lesson 12: Watercolor Painting Lace 13. Lesson 13: Using Green 14. Lesson 14: Mixing Colors 15. Lesson 15: Using Brushes 16. Lesson 16: Painting Clouds 17: Lesson 17: Graded Wash 18. Lesson 18: How to Paint Water Reflections 19. Lesson 19: Flat Wash 20: Lesson 20: Snowy Landscape 21: Lesson 21: Portraits 22. Lesson 22: Wet-in-wet 23. Lesson 23: Painting with Color 24. Lesson 24: Color Harmony 25. Lesson 25: Using Alcohol for Texture 26. Lesson 26: Dry Brush Technique 27. Lesson 27. Making the Best of the Bloom 28. Lesson 28: Using a blow dryer 29. Lesson 29: Intensity Scale 30. Lesson 30: Painting with Salt 31. Lesson 31: Reflected LIght 32. Lesson 32: Enhancing digital images for painting 33. Lesson 33: Journal painting 34. Lesson 34: Using Large Brushes for Effect

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