Watercolor Painting: Loose and Expressive

Watercolor gets a reputation for being difficult, but that's usually because people are fighting the medium instead of working with it. This class is about learning to let go — we'll embrace happy accidents, work wet-on-wet, and paint three small studies that get progressively more expressive. You don't need to be able to draw. You just need to be willing to play.

• Wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry techniques
• Color mixing and understanding pigment transparency
• How to paint loose florals and landscapes
• Using salt, plastic wrap, and other tools for texture
• How to fix mistakes (and when to call them happy accidents)