Watercolour Technique Exercises - Bundle 2
Build confidence with four essential watercolour technique lessons covering highlights, dark edges, softening edges, and blending paint.
What's included
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Welcome to my online class
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Watercolour Technique Exercises - Bundle 2
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Copyright information
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How to keep your paper flat (stretching)
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Watercolour Techniques - Downloadable files
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1 - How to reserve highlights on wet paper - Technique exercises video
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2 - Dark edges in watercolour - Technique exercises video
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3 - Softening watercolour paint edges - Technique exercises video
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4 - Blending watercolour paint - Technique exercises video
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About this class
- $77.00
- Lifetime access
- Instant delivery
- On demand
Watercolour Technique Exercises - Bundle 2
In this beginner-friendly technique bundle, Louise brings together four focused lessons designed to help you build greater control and confidence with watercolour.
Rather than working through a detailed painting, each lesson uses simple exercises so you can concentrate fully on the technique. You'll explore how water, timing, brush control, and paint consistency influence the way watercolour behaves on the paper.
You'll practise preserving highlights, softening edges, preventing dark tide lines, and creating smooth colour blends—essential skills that can be applied to everything from flowers and birds to animals, landscapes, and everyday painting practice.
What You’ll Learn:
- Reserving clean highlights while working on wet paper
- Building colour in layers without losing light areas
- Guiding paint closer to highlights with a damp brush
- Softening hard edges before they become distracting
- Lifting lost highlights with an eradicator brush
- Understanding why dark, untidy edges form in wet-on-wet washes
- Preventing tide lines and backruns through better water and timing control
- Creating cleaner edges with improved brush and moisture control
- Manually softening paint edges for smoother value transitions
- Practising edge control in a dedicated watercolour journal
- Blending two colours together smoothly on the paper
- Creating soft colour transitions and gradients with patience and control
Artist’s Insight:
These lessons focus on the small technical skills that make a big difference in watercolour. Learning how to preserve a highlight, soften an edge, or prevent a dark tide line can completely change the way a painting feels. Instead of fighting the paint, you'll gain a better understanding of how water and pigment behave together.
Practising these exercises in a watercolour journal is a great way to build your own visual reference library over time. Although the exercises are simple, they form the foundation for cleaner washes, softer transitions, stronger highlights, and more confident painting.
Practising these exercises in a watercolour journal is a great way to build your own visual reference library over time. Although the exercises are simple, they form the foundation for cleaner washes, softer transitions, stronger highlights, and more confident painting.
Checklist
Here's what you get with this class.
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Wet on wet exercises 1 download
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Wet on wet exercises 2 download
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Wet on dry exercises download
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Wet on wet leaf shape exercises download
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4 full length instructional videos showing each set of exercises
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is your refund policy?
We think you'll love our classes, but if you're not absolutely satisfied within 30 days, just contact us at [email protected] and we'll refund your purchase, no questions asked.
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For how long do I have access to the class?
You have lifetime access. Your content doesn't expire, so you can come back and revisit it anytime.
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What supplies do I need?
A supplies list is included with each class, however we do encourage you to work with what you already have.
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Why are there no downloads for the Glazing and Dry Brush techniques?
These are free hand exercises and don't require downloads for you to complete them. Strictly speaking you won't need them for any of the videos but I've added some to give you something to copy from or reference when you do your own exercises.
Dive into Watercolours
No Traffic, No Timetable, No Worries
Online courses are not just convenient, they're better.
In our online classes, you get to pause, rewind, and revisit any part of the lesson you want. Missed a stroke? No dramas! Just go back and watch it again.
Plus, all our classes are filmed in real-time and fully voiced over. That means you'll catch every stroke, every detail, and every step you need to nail that painting. It's like having a personal tutor on your screen, only better, because you're in total control.
So what are you waiting for? Grab a brush, hit 'play', and let's get painting!
Instructor
Meet your teacher for this class.
Louise De Masi
Watercolour Artist
Louise De Masi is a professional watercolour artist and qualified teacher based on the Mid North Coast of NSW, Australia. She has over 23 years’ experience as an artist and has been teaching watercolour online since 2011.
Louise’s calm, step-by-step approach focuses on helping students understand how watercolour works, so they can paint with more confidence and enjoyment.
Her work has been sold and licensed worldwide, and she has co-written a book on painting sea life in watercolour.
Social proof: testimonials
“I am taking an in person class and I learned more here today [in this YouTube video] than I have in 6 weeks of the class… Signing up based on this video!”
Irene
“You are an outstanding teacher and are always so explicit with your instructions that you make it almost impossible for us to fail when following your tutorials. You have a wealth of information that you are always so happy to share with us. I have not as yet found another teacher who teaches as well as you and I have certainly watched thousands of You Tube tutorials. You are the best and deserve all the recognition you get!”
Marion
“Just finished watching this tutorial (I always watch them before starting to paint them) and I wanted to say it's so helpful to have the reference photo showing while you paint. I find myself thinking what I would do next and where I would add color and then when you do it too I know I'm learning -- even before I put paint to paper. Thank you for your explanations and thorough descriptions of what you are doing. You are the best teacher!”
Bonnie
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