Background & Shadows / Independent learning
Pricing
Your Outcome
Learn to make your paintings so much more interesting and exciting, with a few simple techniques.
Course Offers
- 1Create your own reference material
- 2Change the mood of a painting with a few simple techniques
- 3Find out how to test backgrounds before calling it done
- 4Explore different ideas on how to approach your paintings
Course Info
This course includes many different ideas of how you can change and rearrange reference photos and make compositions more pleasing.
Within the course, you'll find two step-by-step paintings, in their entirety so you can better understand the ratio of water to color, and why values are important to create the results you want.
Your Instructors
Birgit O'Connor
Internationally Award Winning Artist and AuthorBirgit O’Connor is an award winning master watercolor artist, best selling author and sought after instructor. Her work has been included in collections throughout the world, and has been published in over 60 national and international artist publications, including Australian Artist, International Artist Magazine, Watercolor Artist, American Artist, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times. When it comes to watercolor painting, many institutions have added Birgit’s best selling books to their curriculum which include Watercolor in Motion, Watercolor Essentials, Paint Watercolor Flowers.