Watercolor Portrait Painting: Female with Jan Kunz
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Watercolor Portrait Painting: Female with Jan Kunz

Join artist Jan Kunz, author of Painting Beautiful Watercolors from Photographs and Painting Florals That Glow, to learn how to paint so that your paintings will glow. This step by step watercolor painting video workshop, Watercolor Portrait Painting: Female, will become a favorite whether you skills are beginning or advanced. Paint along with Jan Kunz as she demonstrates the five steps to creating vibrant, life-like watercolor portraits. Learn how she selects a model, achieves correct proportions in a reference drawing, determines hue and value for skin tones, and uses tricks for bold rendering of hair. Jan provides enough information to keep serious painters occupied for years! Full-color worksheets, steps to completion, Jan's drawing, a pigment analysis chart, and a color/pigment wheel are available on the CCP web site as a free download. More watercolor lessons with Jan Kunz are available in three companion watercolor instruction videos from Creative Catalyst Productions:� Getting Started Right in Watercolor, Painting Roses in Crystal, and Painting Watercolor Portraits: A Simple Approach From Photo to Finish.
01m 40s
1. Seeing the Model
06m 17s
2. Drawing the Head
00m 44s
3. Capturing Sunshine
01m 47s
4. Jan's 40% Rule
01m 13s
5. Watercolor Pigments
00m 59s
6. Planning the Portrait
01m 22s
7. The First Wash
01m 56s
8. The Shadow Shape
00m 45s
12. Modeling Facial Planes
04m 03s
14. Flooding Cheek
03m 05s
16. Hair & Cast Shadow
11m 19s
18. Completing the Portrait
08m 14s
19. The Background
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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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