Three Simple Strategies for Designing Your Own Watercolors (even if you're a beginner)

The best time start learning to design your own paintings is right from the beginning-or from wherever you are now-instead of waiting until you have more skills or more practice. Here are 3 simple strategies you can use to get started designing simple paintings of your own, even if you just picked up a brush for the first time today.
0:00 intro
1:30 skills needed to design your own painting
2:25 fundamentals these strategies help develop
3:13 strategy 1 silhouette paintings
7:33 strategy 1 example
14:35 strategy 2 planning with opaques
20:26 strategy 3 build things with brush marks
21:53 silhouette brush drawing example
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