The essence of the way I like to teach watercolor technique is a blend of spontaneity and control. Anyone who has ever taken one of my online art classes, or just watched a free watercolor tutorial online (check out my youtube channel), knows I am a big believer of not fighting watercolor and letting it do its own thing.
Secret Bag of Tricks
In this new online watercolor class, Watercolor Textures, I have brought together my favorite bag of tricks that I incorporate into my landscape paintings over and over again.
One goal I made for this class, is that you will come away with an arsenal of tricks to use in your own paintings. Rather than learn how to copy a painting from start to finish, I want to share all my little secrets that I use in my watercolor paintings for creating textures. This way you will gain the confidence to do your own watercolor landscapes in your own style.
The Secret for finding time to paint
One of my secrets for making time for my art is making it easy to take it with me on the go. So, not only will I teach all my simple tricks for making your watercolor paintings interesting but I will teach how to make this portable sketchbook and watercolor palette. This way, you can take your art with you when you travel or just fit in a little creative “me” time into your busy life. Isn’t it about time you focus on you?
GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED.
The focus on this class will be on individuality and self-expression. Of course you will learn lots and lots of watercolor techniques but rather than learning how to copy one painting you will learn techniques for skies, grass, leaves, trees, water, sand, waterfalls and more– basically many textural elements that you encounter while landscape painting. This course will give you the confidence to create your own landscape painting (or ANY painting) in your own style.
- Learn how to make your watercolor landscapes interesting by choosing a focal point
- Master easy tricks for painting leaves
- Discover easy techniques for adding more textured looks to a watercolor painting
- Identify the individual artist inside of you by learning techniques you can incorporate into your own paintings in your own way.
- Build your landscape skills through lots of inspiring photo references and ideas on how to make the painting individual
- As an additional bonus training, you will learn how to make a no-sew watercolor sketchbook and cheap portable watercolor palette that fits in your bag so you can paint on the go and practice your landscape painting anytime and anywhere
How to Win a Free Art Class
I am so grateful to all of you students and followers (you are awesome) that I am giving away two FREE spots for this watercolor class to two lucky email newsletter subscribers. To make sure I know you want to win, click below and enter your name and email. This will “tag” you as interested in winning a free art class and you will also be getting my inspiring bi-weekly email newsletter full of artsy inspiration, perfect for artists.
Winner will be announced on the blog Monday March 29th. {you can learn more about the Watercolor Textures class at The Inspiration Place → click here to discover more}
GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED.
So tell me, why do you want to take Watercolor Textures?
I want to learn from the best Artists (YOU!) and not get into bad habits….I love your Art!!
I am a sculptor (self taught) who has been studying color, composition, different mediums but know always learning, never applying has to stop NOW! I need to actually start painting!
I'm retired and have built up the supplies so want to be brave! I loved your nude women, cats and cow paintings!
I would like to enjoy being the student for a change. I am of full retirement age now and I still share my knowledge with anyone who wants to learn, but sometimes it is just nice to recall the excitement of stepping in the art room and smelling the paint!
Janice- I have a free cat class and also a free art journal class that you are welcome to try: https://schulmanart.leadpages.net/threepartcatdemoseries-fb/
I've never painted with watercolor before and would love to learn, express myself, build my confidence and become good at it. Love and live through creating.
I want to win a free class so i can expand my knowledge and create even more stuff. I think it will really make a difference in my Art Journal as well. Thanks for the opportunity!
I am always looking for more ways to learn how to improve my watercolors and use watercolor in my art journaling.
hi Barbara- yep- I let in a few lucky people and then closed the doors to registration. I will be reopening them again next week. I still entered your name to win
–Miriam
but it's true Ginny!
I'm interested in learning a medium that I can carry with me anywhere to capture the beauty of life. I'd love your class, I just know it!
I love watercolor! There is always more to learn. I would enjoy this class!
I need new inspiration. I haven't painted for about a year now and truly miss it. I love classes but have lost the passion that I used to have. I need a new and different approach. Please pick me!!
I am just trying watercolor again after being introduced to it in a really bad way….. I know it is a beautiful medium and truly want to learn it but am so afraid to put myself out there that I could really use a little help getting started…thank you so much!
Watercolor painting is my last frontier in art. Of all the art forms I've dabbled in over the years watercolor is the one which has remained elusive. I deeply desire to learn more about it as I love the look and feel of working in this fascinating medium in my art journal.
Love the way you teach and want to learn more, more, more
I love your style and am always looking to add dimension to my own art. This makes me very happy! Thanks for the chance to win!
I would love to win a free spot in your watercolor class. Your paintings are beautiful!
Just getting back into painting and am trying to learn everything I can. Thanks for this opportunity to win a free class.
I paint in watercolors among other things and it looked interesting, plus I like the little travel palette
I am 60 years old and have only just discovered art a couple of years ago. I just wish that I had discovered it when I was younger and had more time to learn. I am self taught and now just want to cram as much knowledge in as I can. I would love to win this free class to broaden my knowledge. Thank you 🙂
I can stitch and sew up a storm, but really struggle with letting go with paint and paper. Please help me, let me win this class.
I love online classes and I could use a bump to get me started on a great summer!
I am going through a major life change and it would feel so good to do something just for me, something I enjoy. I would love to learn your tips and make something for my new little place.
I would love to take your class as I find that your watercolor paintings seem to have a playfullness in them, that I would like to find the key to. Love the same thing in your art journaling…
After putting my art on the back burner for the past 10 years to raise a family and pursue my massage therapy career I have finally picked up the watercolors again I am A little rusty could use some help
I would like to take this class because I have always felt that my watercolor work was flat looking. I can obtain texture in acrylic work by simply adding a medium or combing through the paint. But I'm stumped about how to do it with watercolors. Thanks for considering me!
Every class I take I learn so much more and your classes are easy for me to translate into my own style. I enjoy taking your classes as they are positive and possible.
I am new to watercolor and am interested in learning anything I can. I cannot find a teacher in my area, so I'm scouring the Internet for everything I can find. I'm having so much fun just playing with the colors but the difference between acrylics and watercolor is astounding. Need all the help I can get.
I would love to work with Water Colours but the stuff that I've done look so lifeless..and I believe with one of your classes it would change all that… I love your work!!
I would love to win a spot in your class because I've just started using watercolors and I'm trying to learn as much as I can watching Youtube videos, borrowing books from the library and all this stuff. To follow a course would be the icing on the cake…
I am interested in learning anything new about watercolor
I am taking your Watercolor Secrets (and Watercolor Cats) classes and absolutely love them!! You are a fantastic teacher and I am learning so much!! I love your loose style of painting….and that's my goal, to have my painting look like a painting and not a photograph! I would love to "win" your How to Creat Texture class so that I can continue to broaden my knowledge in watercolors. Thank you so much for this generous opportunity!! You have inspired me so much …
I want to take the watercolor course because I am learning to pain. After many years of telling myself that I can't paint, I decided to explore painting anyway. I discovered that people are not born with an artistic gift, one can learn techniques to be a gifted painter. I also discovered that the secret to joy from painting is the process, not just the end product. I love to find a few minutes to wet a paint brush or take out my sketch book and create something.
I've been so busy the past several months taking care of others I've gotten away from painting and you have inspired me to try hard to make time again. I love the looseness and playful factor of your work! Pick me! Choose me! Help me!
I want to learn watercolor texture because I like to 'crawl' into my art to create and come out and let everyone know how good it felt!!
I know it is simple, but it makes my day to get such an uplifting email telling me I am awesome. Even though you tell hundreds those same words, I still feel special. Thanks for sharing your gift.
I would love to learn how to achieve these lovely textures and last but not least this gorgeous watercolor sketchbook!
I would love to learn some new techniques.
I'm a watercolor lover!!! I'm taking art journaling classes and I would like to learn new techniques that will upgrade my art journal pages
I would love to take my (poorly) watercolouring skills to a new level and your online class looks as if it will provide a lot of playful approaches (and courage) to do so. Thanks for the opportunity to win this wonderful "give away". Greetings from Vienna, Claudia x
I really like to take your class . I am learning art journaling so watercolor techniques will help me to improve my painting.
I just can't paint and I'm so desperate to learn. My hands are a little shaker but
I will give it my best shot 💜
I have enjoyed your blog very much. I am working on taking better care of my emotional self. Part of that in an intentional goal to broaden my use of colored pencil, oil pastel, along with the pen and ink calligraphy work that I currently use in my Art Journal.
I would especially love to learn, how you are able to combine water color on the go with art journaling. Watercolor is something I enjoy, but also find intimidating. Thank you for offering this online course. I hope I win the chance to take your course!
Warmly, Ronda
That is so generous and I would really like a place on the course. I have never taken an online course and this is an opportunity to get my skill level up. My fingers are crossed!
I'm really struggling, especially with foilage and skies. Help! I think you could break this down for me so I can be successful. I keep drawing and painting kitties because you really simplified those subjects. Now to tackle landscapes! Scary!
Reason #1: i love incorporating texture into my attempts at art
Reason #2: watercolors scare me
Reason #3: i just discovered your blog and your style is lovely
I would love to win this class because I am always trying to improve myself and learn to techniques etc.
I would like to take this class as I am disabled with agoraphobia and am unable to take classes via the traditional route. Art is my main hobby and therapy and I am interested in learning more about watercolor techniques.
You must have been reading my mind when I saw you have used these techniques for stamping. I have just seen some fabulous ideas in Stampington's Art Quilting Studio, a back issue using acrylics/watercolors to paint on muslin making to-die-for ethereal pages for a cloth journal. So, with that in mind, I will be using these secret techniques you are sharing in this course to make cloth journal pages.
I am still learning and so admire your work and techniques. I'd be honored to take your class. Sue @ suepompetti@verizon.net 🙂
Hi Miriam, I have recently resigned after years working as a counsellor in the field of family violence. I hit the "burnout" wall pretty hard and now I'm looking to learn fun, new ways to be creative. I have never really tried watercolours (except for a few cards I tried to make) but I have always wanted to learn. Thank You!
I would like to win this class to learn more about textural concepts with watercolors…especially sand and water. I know your teaching style as I've taken your classes hence I'd love to win one of your awesome classes. Thank you for the chance…Cheers-Darlene
I have not done much with watercolor, so would love to win and learn some new ways to play with watercolor.
I've only dabbled with watercolors, but would love a chance to learn how to do more with them. I love the ethereal look that watercolors provide. Thanks for the chance!
It's very simple! I love to learn! I admire your artistic style as well as your artist's philosophy and I am striving to improve my skills in watercolor. To learn your techniques would be a blessing!
I have discovered watercolor within the last year and want to know everything about them and how to use them most effectively. I love, love, love color and texture and would love to know how to win your class!
I'd love to build my confidence in watercolor painting by taking your class.
I have the least amount of knowledge in watercolors and want so much to learn so that I can carry them with me and create when the moment strikes me! Thanks for the opportunity!
I had such fun with the sunflower and the cats class I think I already signed up for the texture class!
I love paintings in watercolor and take many photographs that I would love to paint . As a beginner I need all the help I can get!
I would like to win your free class so I can share the information with my students.
I enjoyed your Cat lessons and learned so much from all the tips you
were giving out to us. I want to continue to learn from you because I
"like your style." So, please enter me to win a Textures Class. I need
that information! Thank You!
I found you on YouTube and enjoy your painting and teaching style. I'm an "older" beginner in watercolor. Your techniques are just what I need to take my art to the next level. Making your own portable sketchbook and paint palette is a great idea.
I'm putting myself out there too 🙂 I'm a "senior" and have purchased a set of watercolors. I am on a retirement pension and have to watch the pennies. I've watched a few of your YouTube videos and to take one of your courses would be absolutely thrilling and a big help 🙂 Thank you for the chance to win.
I have admired your work for awhile now and it has been awhile since I have taken a class. I have never taken a class online. This could be the start of something great.
always looking for ways to expand my knowledge of watercolors~
I love getting your emails. I happen to be exploring with watercolors now. I would love to win this class with you….it's perfect timing actually as I'm ready to expand on new techniques. Working in acrylics I thought this would be easy. I am finding that watercolors is completely different and I have enjoyed this experience and feel like I'm learning sooo much more than I anticipated! Such fun!! Thank you for your inspiration and sharing your talents❤️
Thanks for the opportunity to "win" one of your classes. Having taken 2 classes from you already, I KNOW that this one will be a winner! Any tricks I can learn can only benefit me in the long run. I find that when you learn the right way how to do something that your product always comes out 100% better. Please pick me! Thanks for your consideration. BTW two of the Crazy Cats I painted for my hairdresser (her Maine coon cats) came out so well that she was thrilled to receive them as gifts. Yay!
Miriam…I so respect how challenging it is for artists offering their heart and soul in an on-line class. If your demo videos are any indication of what a student can learn from you, it would be such an honor to study under your direction. As far as watercolor is concerned, I'm drawn to the medium; it's so delicate but at the same time, so bold. But as far as my "talent" (giggle, giggle, super snort) is concerned, I'm clueless about how to manage this paint. I tend to use the colors I have in my fancy WC set full strength and I'm afraid to do any mixing at all! I absolutely am in awe of your tulips loving their vibrancy and your sense of movement. I'd love to develop the confidence to take my palette on the run and create eye-catching watercolor wonders!
I love the look of watercolor & I love working with this medium. There are "tricks" for working with any medium, & it's wonderful to have those things pointed out in a class.
I have never taken a watercolor class, and winning a free spot would be fun!
Thank you, Miriam, for the chance to win your class! I love watercolors and enjoy creating with this medium. It would be great to learn new tricks and techniques and be inspired by other artist!
I am a fiber artist, and I would love to learn some watercolor techniques to use in my fiber art. There are no watercolor classes available in my area. I am especially interested in nature related art. Thank you for offering this.
I've dappled in WC a little, but lack the skills to take it to the next level. My paintings lack something and would love to learn what that is so I can create works Like the ones that inspire me to keep trying. I've recently been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, along with adrenal fatigue. ( stage 3 ! ) so I need to listen to my what my body is telling me and mainly rest/ de-stress for a few months. Will need something to pass the time while I'm laid up and WC will work well.
Thanks for the opportunity Miriam! Water color is the new passion in my life and I would love to learn more about the subtle nuances of the medium.
Thanks so much for this opportunity, I would love to win a free place for one of your classes. I love water colour painting and would really enjoy learning more about creating textures using this medium
I've been so motivated by reading blogs of people like you who watercolor on the go, but haven't taken the first steps toward doing this myself. I don't know where to start, and I just bet your class will give me the confidence to step out and do something! Thanks for setting up the giveaway – whether I get it or not I'll be watching for a chance to sign up!
Thanks for the opportunity Mariam. I would like to win this class because i so much need it. My problem is learning to let go and heed the concept "less is more". That's why i love your art.
Thank you for this opportunity Miriam. I would like the chance to win a spot in your class 🙂 I have been wanting to learn water. I think that these techniques would be great to learn. Misty Olsen
I would love to win the free watercolor class I would like to gain more experience and keRn new watervolir techniques. But in a fixed budget it is very hard to spare money for extras
I live in an area away from easily accessible classes so this type would be great for me!
I would like to make a travel journal, but I don't have enough confidence in my ability to paint landscape features (or figures, for that matter). The description of what you plan to teach sounds perfect.
I am just getting interested in water colors and really want to learn more! I have always used acrylics but I am falling in love with water colors! I love them!!!
I simply cannot learn enough about watercolor. I spent my work life as a nurse. I ignored all the artsy stuff focusing on science. Now that I am retired I have discovered my true passion! This looks like a great course!
Twenty some years ago, in my fifties, I picked up watercolors and so began my amazing art journey. Without formal education, I explored and found myself crossing a variety of mediums. Recently I have returned to watercolors and I'd love to take your online class to kick-start this chapter!!
I have just recently become obsessed with watercoloring and am dying to learn as many different techniques as I can. I saw the title to the blog post and it made me look twice. Once I saw that it was for a watercolor class I knew I had to throw my name into the hat because it would be a dream come true to learn these techniques so soon. I love doing Nature scenes and would love to be able to realistically paint the textures that Nature provides. Thank you so much for the chance to be able to! I will be anxiously awaiting the announcement of the two lucky winners hoping to see my name as one of them! Fingers crossed tightly!
I would like to use watercolours in my journals and project life cards, but I'm a bit scared so would love some ideas to give me confidence!
Would love to learn more about water color.. Always fun and exciting to see how different people teach it.. Thank you for giving away classes too!!
Hi Miriam, I lost my job in August and until I get hired again I need to feel like im doing something productive,,,so I replenished my art supplies and broke out my sketch pad,…Id love to win a class and work on watercolors which i need help with
Hi Miriam, Thanks for the opportunity to win a place in your watercolor textures online class. Your lessons are very inspiring and informative. Just what I need!
I've been trying to teach myself watercolors and I find them so difficult and I don't have the funds right now to purchase a class. I'm desperate. I love the look of watercolors.
I would love to expand my options in watercolor!
Love your work and would really like to learn more from YOU! – Debbi Gola