Getting Started Right in Watercolor with Jan Kunz
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Getting Started Right in Watercolor with Jan Kunz
Let popular workshop instructor and author Jan Kunz help you get a head start in watercolor. In this beginning level watercolor instruction video, Getting Started Right in Watercolor, you will learn watercolor painting techniques ranging from basic washes to how to paint dew drops. Jan guides you step by step in learning how to paint with flair. Jan Kunz is well-known as a master watercolorist and author of Painting Beautiful Watercolors from Photographs and Painting Florals That Glow. Learn about brushes, watercolor papers, setting up a palette, and brush techniques from basic washes to negative painting. See how to soften edges, prevent run backs, and reduce complicated areas to paintable passages. Get tips on corrective measures, how to lift whites, paint dew drops and wood grain, and much more. Two painting exercises are included: One for the beginner and one for the more advanced beginning painter. Additional printed material available free on the CCP web site. More watercolor lessons with Jan Kunz are available in three companion watercolor instruction videos from Creative Catalyst Productions: Watercolor Portrait Painting: Female, Painting Roses in Crystal, and Painting Watercolor Portraits: A Simple Approach From Photo to Finish.
08m 00s
1. Basic Brush Technique
08m 40s
2. Demonstration One
05m 13s
3. Advanced Brush Technique
07m 00s
4. Corrective Techniques
01m 41s
5. More Tools & Fun Stuff
11m 18s
8. Putting It All Together
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About The Artist:
Jan Kunz

Jan Kunz paintings are an intriguing combination of vibrant color and delicacy. Her watercolor technique is unsurpassed. Kunz contributes to national and international publications, and has four videos to her credit. Kunz has earned a reputation of being one of the best watercolor teachers in the country.
Watercolor artist Jan Kunz received her formal education at the University of California, but her love affair with the visual arts prompted'her to seek training in that field with instructors such as Rex Brandt and Lester Bonar. She left a career as a successful commercial artist in 1978 to pursue watercolor painting full time.
Now residing on the Oregon coast, Kunz paints, teaches, and periodically travels the Pacific with her husband aboard their charter vessel,...
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