Mastering Watercolours online course
with Jane Blundell
Mastering Watercolours is a 12 lesson course designed to build understanding of the many characteristics of watercolour. Through the course, participants create colour wheels, mixing charts, technical studies, tonal exercises and a range of paintings of different subjects to build their skills. Step by step instructions with videos and photos all along the way make it very easy to follow along.
The course begins with an Introductory lesson to help you set up your palette. Each step in the lesson has a key video or photo and written instructions and video captions make this course suitable for those for whom English is not their first language, or those who are hearing impaired.
The course is designed around my Ultimate Mixing Set, available from Daniel Smith watercolours. Here is an affiliate link if you want to order this from Jackson's Art in the UK.
A new metal palette with 24 half pans has also been released by Daniel Smith. It has a fabulous range of 24 colours, including my 15 Ultimate Mixing Set colours and a wonderful range of extra mixes and earth pigments.
The current course began on the 8th April with the final lesson being available on the 1st of July. It is not too late to join in. You can still work through a lesson (or more) every week as I will be continuing to monitor and work with you for the weeks following the final lesson.
Here is the navigation screen for the Introductory lesson.
The course begins with an Introductory lesson to help you set up your palette. Each step in the lesson has a key video or photo and written instructions and video captions make this course suitable for those for whom English is not their first language, or those who are hearing impaired.
The course is designed around my Ultimate Mixing Set, available from Daniel Smith watercolours. Here is an affiliate link if you want to order this from Jackson's Art in the UK.
A new metal palette with 24 half pans has also been released by Daniel Smith. It has a fabulous range of 24 colours, including my 15 Ultimate Mixing Set colours and a wonderful range of extra mixes and earth pigments.
The current course began on the 8th April with the final lesson being available on the 1st of July. It is not too late to join in. You can still work through a lesson (or more) every week as I will be continuing to monitor and work with you for the weeks following the final lesson.
Here is the navigation screen for the Introductory lesson.
As you complete each step, you mark it off so you don't lose track of where you are up to.
A new lesson will pop into your email each Wednesday.
A new lesson will pop into your email each Wednesday.
Responsive & InteractiveI will be working with participants through this three month course, adding comments, running webinars, answering questions and even adding more steps or lessons if necessary.
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This course opened for registration on April 8th 2020 and will be available to register until the day the last lesson is sent out - July 1st 2020.
After that date, I will release it as a fully 'on demand' version, to be worked through entirely at your own pace. Right now is a great time to work through with a wonderful group of people :-)
The cost is US$240, payable through PayPal. However, due to Covid-19, I am offering it for the special price of US$180 at this time.
If you are in Australia and wish to pay via bank transfer, you can contact me to arrange that.
After that date, I will release it as a fully 'on demand' version, to be worked through entirely at your own pace. Right now is a great time to work through with a wonderful group of people :-)
The cost is US$240, payable through PayPal. However, due to Covid-19, I am offering it for the special price of US$180 at this time.
If you are in Australia and wish to pay via bank transfer, you can contact me to arrange that.
FAQQ - I wondered how long each of the videos will be each week, and if you will be demonstrating?
A - Each lesson is in many parts. I demonstrate each step with a video where ever it is necessary. I am trying to keep each video at about 5 -10 minutes so they don’t take too long to load up - speeding up parts to keep under that time rather than cutting parts out - so there are no missed steps. Where an activity is repeated, I just show a photo of the next stage. So it is as much video as is needed but not more just for the sake of it. Q - Do you have a sample of a section of a lesson you could send so I could see what it is like? A - At this stage I don’t have a sample lesson, but if you watch my YouTube videos you’ll see the view I am using for the filming - though my eyes. In the course, just about all the videos have commentary as well as a few titles on the screen, and all instructions are also written out to help the hearing impaired or those for whom English is a second language. Q - I wondered about your refund policy. A - I haven’t published a refund policy - it is obviously something I need to look into. However, in all the years I have been teaching this course just using PDF files and email, only one person has ever requested even a partial refund. As I will be working through this course with everyone, I will know exactly how many lessons have been received so I guess I can give a pro-rata refund of unseen lessons if necessary. Q - Do we get to keep the lessons or does each week have a time limit for use? A - This is a great question and one I will look into. I will certainly maintain access to the full course for a full year. I need to check with the rules of the platform I am using to find out how long content remains on the site. I intend to continue to use Ruzuku for other courses too so I see it as a long term project. Q - Is it OK to use another brand of watercolour, apart from your recommended Daniel Smith Ultimate Mixing Set? A - yes it is totally fine to use any artist quality brand of watercolour. However to get the colour mixes I will demonstrate and the results you will see, you need to have the same colours in the brand or brands you use. Alternative colours to my Ultimate Mixing Set are shown here. Q - I understand your course is 12 weeks, but didn't see a beginning date on your website or in Instagram. When does it start? A - The course opened for registration on the 8th April 2020, with the introductory lesson being available immediately. A new lesson will follow each week until the 1st of July. You can join any time until the date of the final lesson, and participate with the current student cohort. Q - Does the introductory lesson provide a list of supplies needed? A - Yes, and this list is also available here. Here is the link for the PDF Q - How do you provide instruction - is each lesson posted with a video? A - The Ruzuku platform makes it very easy to break up the lessons into steps, with each step having a key photo or video. Each week a new lesson will appear in your mailbox, on a Wednesday. Each lesson will look much like the screenshot above, though some will have more steps and others less, depending on the complexity of the lesson. The videos have a few helpful titles and most have commentary, but I have also provided full written instructions for every step, as some of my students are hard-of-hearing or deaf, and many speak English as a second or third language. I want the content to be as accessible as possible. Q - Is it obligatory to post work online? A - No. You certainly don't have to post work online, but if you do, it is only within the Ruzuku platform, and only visible to your fellow students in this run-through of the course. Q - Do we get feedback? A - Yes - in this first run-through, you can post up exercises and ask questions in special sections of each lesson. So you might get comments from your fellow students, and I will also be reading all comments and questions and responding asap. |