Watercoloring in Your Art Journal
  • Art Journal & Mixed Media
  • Essentials

Add dreamy, whimsical effects to your art journal with watercolors! In this class, Katie Smith shares her favorite techniques for achieving stunning spreads in her art journal with watercolor pans, tubes, pencils, and more! Discover how to create a cloud background, an ombre gradient, and one-of-a-kind doodles with watercolors. Then, explore the effects of combining watercolors with salt, resists, and gesso. For each technique, Katie shares her start-to-finish process for using that technique to create a gorgeous work of art in her journal! Grab your watercolors and prepare to get a little messy—you'll love the projects you'll create in this class! 

  • What you'll learn +
    • How to work with watercolors in a variety of ways
    • How to use watercolors to create completed art journal spreads
    • About the different types of watercolors
    • How to combine watercolors with salt
    • How to paint a watercolor cloud background
    • How to paint a watercolor ombre gradient
    • How to doodle with watercolors
    • How to create resists with watercolors
    • How to paint watercolor silhouettes
    • How watercolors look with gesso
Lessons
  1. 1. Introduction, Supplies, & Preparation
  2. 2. Watercolors + Salt
  3. 3. Watercolor Clouds
  4. 4. Watercolor Ombre
  5. 5. Watercolor Doodles
  6. 6. Watercolor Silhouettes
  7. 7. Watercolor Resist
  8. 8. Watercolors + Gesso
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Watercoloring in Your Art Journal
  • Art Journal & Mixed Media
  • Essentials

Add dreamy, whimsical effects to your art journal with watercolors! In this class, Katie Smith shares her favorite techniques for achieving stunning spreads in her art journal with watercolor pans, tubes, pencils, and more! Discover how to create a cloud background, an ombre gradient, and one-of-a-kind doodles with watercolors. Then, explore the effects of combining watercolors with salt, resists, and gesso. For each technique, Katie shares her start-to-finish process for using that technique to create a gorgeous work of art in her journal! Grab your watercolors and prepare to get a little messy—you'll love the projects you'll create in this class! 

  • What you'll learn +
    • How to work with watercolors in a variety of ways
    • How to use watercolors to create completed art journal spreads
    • About the different types of watercolors
    • How to combine watercolors with salt
    • How to paint a watercolor cloud background
    • How to paint a watercolor ombre gradient
    • How to doodle with watercolors
    • How to create resists with watercolors
    • How to paint watercolor silhouettes
    • How watercolors look with gesso