I Help You Master Watercolor
One Beautiful Composition at a Time
I’ll take you beyond the basics
so you can finally paint the watercolors you've been imagining!
You've learned the basic strokes. Now it's time to challenge yourself with the techniques that separate good paintings from truly stunning ones. I take the kind of advanced concepts that usually feel overwhelming and break them down into clear, logical steps — so you can tackle complex compositions with confidence and surprise yourself with what you're capable of. Join me on Patreon alongside my free YouTube tutorials and get:
✨ Advanced techniques, made approachable: 75+ in-depth tutorials and 250+ hours of real-time instruction that go far deeper than beginner watercolor content, without ever losing you along the way.
✨ Everything you need for each class: reference materials, outlines, step-by-step photos, supply lists, and pigment alternatives so you can focus on painting, not problem-solving.
✨ NEW!* "Drawing for Watercolor Artists" live sessions to help you level up your drawing skills — studying organic references and developing sketching techniques designed specifically for working on delicate watercolor paper.
✨ A community of artists growing alongside you: share your work, get feedback, and stay motivated with people who are serious about leveling up.
Here's a glimpse of what we've been painting together.
Browse the classes below — click any one to see a preview of what's inside.
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Blue Plums (3.5 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: Wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, glazing techniques too build depth, negative painting technique for leaf texture. -
Butterfly in Paradise (3 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: glazing, lifting and wet-on-wet techniques (2 variations), the nuances of working with red watercolor pigments. -
Sunbird & Lemons (3 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: Glazing to build depth and volume; Blooming effects with granulating pigments; Wet-on-dry for gorgeous feather textures. -
Parrot & Coconuts (4.5 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: Wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, working with granulating pigments, color theory and building realistic yellow shadows. -
Christmas Wreath (3 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: Wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, painting gold objects, glazing and negative painting techniques to build depth and dimension. -
Brown Horse (3 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, under-painting techniques to build realistic form and shadows, adding background elements. -
3 Winter Birds (3 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, glazing, painting feathers, painting green leaves -
Gladiolus Macro Flower (3 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: Wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, glazing to adjust hues and color temperature, creating petal texture, background techniques. -
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Watercolor Portrait Fundamentals (3 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate-Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: Mixing skin tones; facial anatomy; painting light & shadow to create realistic features. -
Blue Orchids: Wet-on-Damp (3 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: Wet-on-damp vs. wet-on-wet techniques; Using dagger brush; painting realistic petal veins and flower stems. -
Yellow Rose & Background (3 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate-Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: Working with yellow pigments, painting yellow flowers, and various background techniques. -
Tropical Forest (3 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: in-depth overview of fundamental techniques for painting realistic feathers; painting greenery & berries. -
Radiant Rose: Blooming Technique (1 hour)
Skill Level: Beginner-Friendly
Key Learnings & Techniques: blooming technique fundamentals, working with granulating watercolors, and glazing technique for shadows. -
Autumn Forest (5 Hours)
Skill Level: Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, painting animal fur, glazing to create “glow”, negative painting technique for greenery. -
Finch & Orchids (4 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: working with granulating pigments, wet-on-damp technique for botanical subjects. -
Chocolate Orchid (3 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: Charging technique (variation of wet-on-wet), color harmony, painting flower petals and stems. -
Purple Columbine (3 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: painting realistic flower petals and stamens, glazing and negative painting techniques. -
Pink Tea Rose (3 Hours)
Skill Level: Beginner-Freindly
Key Learnings & Techniques: painting realistic flower petals in two layers: wet-on-wet & wet-on-dry. -
Deer & Persimmons (3 Hours)
Skill Level: Beginner-Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: Wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, background techniques and composition structure. -
Fall Still Life 🍁 (4.5 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: working with super-granulating pigments to build texture; wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, and glazing techniques. -
Easter Bunny (2 Hours)
Skill Level: Beginner-Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, underpainting & shadow, creating realistic animal fur with watercolors. -
Oak Leaf (1 Hour)
Skill Level: Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: Wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, glazing techniques too build depth, negative painting technique for leaf texture. -
Lilly of the Valley (2 Hours)
Skill Level: Beginner - Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: How to paint white subjects (without using white paint), negative painting, painting greenery. -
Partridge in a Pear Tree (4 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: glazing, working with granulating pigments, painting realistic feathers & fruit. -
Squirrel & Pine Cone (3 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-dry, painting animal fur, negative painting technique, and working with very small precision brushes. -
Winter Birds (2 Hours)
Skill Level: Beginner - Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: How to avoid over-painting and overworking your paper, painting realistic snow & bird feathers. -
Mandarin Duck & Lotus Flowers (4 Hours)
Skill Level: Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, wet-on-damp, negative painting. -
Summer Grapes (4.5 Hours)
Skill Level: Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: planning complex paintings, wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, glazing to create depth, "under-painting" to create a glowing light effect. -
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Coral Reef & Clownfish (2 Hours)
Skill Level: Beginner - Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: Wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, glazing to add depth, and blooming to create texture. -
Butterfly & Poppies (4 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, glazing, color temperature, negative painting technique. -
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White Shell & Painting Shadows (3 Hours)
Skill Level: Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: Painting white subjects; capturing realistic light & shadow with watercolor (in-depth review). -
Chinese Lanterns & Snail (3.5 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: glazing, wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, and negative painting technique for realistic greenery. -
Fuchsia Flower (2.5 Hours)
Skill Level: Beginner-Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: Planning watercolor layers, glazing technique to add depth, lifting technique. -
Glowing Rose (4 Hours)
Skill Level: Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: "glowing light" under-painting; "softening the edges" to create atmospheric depth, and other background techniques. -
Scarlet Ibis & Tropical Leaves (4.5 Hours)
Skill Level: Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, painting feathers, painting various types of tropical greenery. -
2 Turtle Doves & Christmas Cactus Flower (3.5 Hours)
Skill Level: Intermediate-Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, painting feathers: soft and sharp, "recycling the palette", painting greenery. -
Summer Vegetables (3 Hours)
Skill Level: Beginner-Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: How to create various textures with watercolor, including the use of salt, lifting technique and granulating pigments. -
Lotus Flower (1 Hour)
Skill Level: Beginner
Key Learnings & Techniques: Negative painting technique, working with student grade paints. -
How to Paint Green Leaves (2 Hours)
Skill Level: Beginner & Intermediate - 2 Case Studies
Key Learnings & Techniques: mixing greens, glazing, working with granulating greens, negative painting. -
Watercolor Tiger (2 Hours)
Skill Level: Beginner-Intermediate
Key Learnings & Techniques: Wet-on-wet; wet-on-dry; working with granulating pigments; background effects. -
Black Swan (1.5 Hours)
Skill Level: Beginner
Key Learnings & Techniques: Wet-on-wet; wet-on-dry; working with black pigments; feather effects. -
Magnolia on Cold Pressed Paper (1.5 Hours)
Skill Level: Beginner
Key Learnings & Techniques: Wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, working on Cold Pressed watercolor paper. -
Magnolia: Hot Pressed Paper (1 Hour)
Skill Level: Beginner
Key Learnings & Techniques: line and wash technique, working on Hot Pressed watercolor paper. -
Diving Penguin (2 Hours)
Skill Level: Beginner
Key Learnings & Techniques: In-depth review of wet-on-wet vs wet-on-dry fundamentals; using "sprinkling" technique for atmospheric effect. -
Christmas Tree (1.5 Hours)
Skill Level: From Beginner to Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-wet, masking fluid, various snow effects (white ink, salt and gouache splattering). -
Holiday Ornaments (3 Hours)
Skill Level: From Beginner to Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, wet-on-damp, glazing, masking fluid, negative painting & metallics. -
Watercolor Hearts (2.5 Hours)
Skill Level: From Beginner to Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, wet-on-damp, glazing, masking fluid, granulation and negative painting. -
Leaves: Beginner to Advanced (1 Hour)
Skill Level: From Beginner to Advanced
Key Learnings & Techniques: wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, wet-on-damp, glazing, masking fluid, granulation and negative painting.