The Dance of WaterColor 1: Beginners and Beyond Watercolor Painting

his DVD is ideally suited for beginners who want to understand how "water" and "paint" combine to produce beautiful watercolors! Learn drawing basics for a landscape, color basics for mixing color, and color theory for painting harmonious paintings. Julie takes you through the painting process step-by-step and clearly explains the water-to-paint ratio
so, as a beginner, or a painter with more experience, you will gain more control and loosen up your watercolor style.

Review of The Dance of Watercolor:
If you really want to learn to watercolor, this is the DVD for you.

Organization is one of it's best features. Julie Cohn has lots of easy to understand techniques. She explains why you do something, as well as how to do it. You can refer back to a painting technique without searching through the whole DVD.

There are sections on: shortcuts; how to find a good brush; drawing tips; and the all important question of how much water vs how much paint. Julie has easy to remember names for all the varying degrees of water and paint and when to use them. There are lots of quick reference guides about color and painting techniques that I found really helpful.

Julie's original music adds just the right touch!

I enjoyed the slide show with the music and used it as a screen saver.

A great value for aspiring water colorists.

-Dorrie Newton

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Education

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• watercolor
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• color
• beginning
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• blooms
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• paper
• demonstration
• draw
• landscape

[kimmobey]

Looks promising but I do need some demonstration of your teaching technique, not just marketing blurb. I won't even go to a website unless I know it's going to be worth my time.

[mrniggerbaiter]

Sell it to the Jews.

[pumkin54]

@pumkin54 I was wrong. There's a demo at the end. She paints a group of tree trunks, which looks really nice the way she did it. I haven't tried it yet. I'm still practicing her basic techniques. She also shows how to correct common mistakes like blooms, going outside the lines or having paint dry too quickly. I've worked on her techniques for two days now and already feel like I have more control and can anticipate the paint's behavior. Will definitely buy DVD 2 when I'm done with this one.

[pumkin54]

I just got this video. It is truly for very beginners (me). It teaches the very basics about how to apply paint of different consistencies to paper of varying degrees of wetness. It also covers the essentials of color mixing and a good beginning palette to use. It would have been nice if the video included at least one step by step painting, but I guess that is what Dance of Watercolor 2 is for. All in all, the beginning of a great series for those who can't attend her workshops. Where's pt 3?

[allena1231]

i m an artist in my class! i am jst impressed to c ur work!!!! its jst amazing its awsome~!

[XXQUAVERXX]

i have just started lanscape i like art but i seen somone do lanscape and i tryed it out for a week or to and im not tht gd so il be watchin some more of you videos :)

[stryker48]

Great work! ... I look forward to the tutorials.