Simplifying Watercolor Painting: Wet-on-Wet Rainbow Technique

Do you get frustrated with watercolor? Is it not behaving like you imagined it would? In this easy class, we’ll let go of that frustration and learn to have fun with watercolors.  

Join illustrator, author & educator, Mirka Hokkanen, as she teaches you how to explore watercolor behavior when painting wet on wet, and get used to the way paint disperses from your brush onto the wet surface of the paper. By the end of the class, you‘ll have a beautiful painting to keep or gift, and confidence in a new skill to add in your painting toolbox. 

What you’ll learn:

• Basic tools for successful watercolor painting: papers, paint, brushes and other supplies and Mirka’s favorite tools 
• Warm up with simple exercises
• How paints behave
• Getting comfortable with our tools
• Painting beautiful rainbow plants 
• Adding details to wet on wet paintings
• Bonus Video! Learn how the rainbow technique can be used in more complicated paintings to create depth and interest

Although this class is perfect for beginners, even more experienced painters can join in and have fun with this technique. 

Create a rainbow botanical painting using the wet-on-wet technique! 

What you’ll need:

• Set of watercolor paints
• A watercolor brush that has a point (I recommend the Princeton Select Pointed Filbert Brush #4, available at most craft stores in the US.)
• Watercolor paper, recommend 140lbs/300gsm, hot or cold press. (I prefer hot press.) 
• Large jug of water
• Pencil - either graphite, or I like (Prismacolor Col-Erase) red pencils, as long as it’s not water soluble.
• Paper towels 
• White plate, or mixing pan

What are you waiting for? Let’s have fun with watercolors - can’t wait to see you in class!