watercolour painting
part 3

 Painting in Monochrome

Welcome to Part 3

How did you get on with the last issue? I hope you managed to practise washes and brush marks and ended up with a nice desert island picture for all your effort!.

Please listen to the audio track below which gives you an introduction to this issue and the best way of working through the next two weeks’ material. The video clip shows how to paint tree trunks.

Go to Part 4 from the link at the bottom of this page when you have worked through the exercises and projects in this lesson.

And don’t forget you can always access past lessons from the course from the ‘Previous lessons’ link at the bottom of this page

Here’s what’s in this Issue:

the value of tones
let’s practice with some simple shapes
compositional tricks with tones
 use just one colour to paint a picture
print and use a tonal strip
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Part 3

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your tonal strip

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tonalstrip

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Listen to the audio here

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Coming up in part 4:

abstract
wetinwet
colour wheel
mud

how to avoid mud

painting wet in wet

mixing colours together

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abstract colour painting

eight squares for web

print and use a colour wheel

try my eight squares exercise

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FORUM
 Have you visited the forum yet where you can ask questions, make comments, and help each other out with your painting and drawing? To access the forum just go to http://learntodo.activeboard.com/
If this is your first visit you will need to click on the New Member link in the Login Box and then add a username, password and email address, and if you like you can also fill in the other details such as your name, date of birth etc.., although these are not obligatory. 
Then just start writing! Ask questions, provide answers, make comments, or simply say 'hello!'. The forum is for you to use as much or as little as you would like.
Check out the 'Welcome - Start Here' category first to see how to do things.

When you are ready, go to Part 4

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