You want to start watercolor , but you don't know how to get started? Indeed, if watercolor painting is a very pleasant creative hobby, and the result, all in nuances, is magnificent, this artistic activity impresses. However, it is possible to learn these painting techniques without knowing how to draw with our watercolor method for beginners.
Start watercolor easily without learning to draw
Watercolor flowers are trendy, but even if you have a few tubes of paints and pans on hand, you feel unable to paint?
Sketching a pattern is often the step that seems insurmountable. Drawing is not so easy.
Taking watercolor lessons isn't for everyone, and the results won't be immediate. Don't expect to become a watercolor artist overnight. However, it is quite possible to discover watercolor painting without going through the "drawing course" box.
Thus, French kits has decided to make the practice of watercolor accessible to everyone, with a method based on pre-printed watercolor paper which makes it possible to dispense with the tedious step of sketching. We offer you a coloring that will allow you to learn watercolor techniques.
With a watercolor kit for beginners, you have everything at hand:
- Essential equipment;
- The painting ;
- A tutorial adapted to your level.
Watercolor for beginners: kits for everyone
To start watercolour, like any artistic hobby, we imagine that it is necessary to buy a lot of fine art materials. So, it is natural to have many questions about the quality of the paint, the size of the brushes, the type of watercolor paper, etc. However, investing in a quality watercolor palette or many pans is expensive.
A kit that contains all the materials to start watercolor
That's why we have designed beginner's watercolor kits that contain all the necessary materials to get started:
- A brush ;
- Three handmade watercolor tablets;
- Three sheets of watercolor paper printed from darkest to lightest;
- A color chart to fill in;
- An exercise sheet;
- A technical booklet;
- A video tutorial;
You will have everything you need to make your first watercolor . You will only need a cup to put water in.
We have chosen quality with artisanal watercolors whose pigments are ground by hand. The paint colors offered are bright and perfectly coordinated. You will therefore have no problem to associate the colors between them.
Printed paper to practice watercolor beginners
The watercolor paper we offer is of high quality. We have chosen to print it so that you can follow the contours of the drawing, without having to make a preliminary sketch. A first paper with black outlines allows you to tame the techniques. Then, a second sheet has gray outlines for you to perfect, and the last watercolor paper has barely visible lines: this will be your final creation!
As with our other creative kits, each watercolor kit also contains a paper booklet that accompanies you step by step and a video tutorial that reveals each technical gesture.
Accessible from 12 years old, the activity can also be done with the family! In addition, everyone can make their first achievement in 1 hour to 1h30 on average. The models offered allow you to make original compositions with watercolor flowers, elegant leaves, painted landscapes or adorable characters.
Beginner watercolor painting: learning the basics
To start watercolor is to learn various techniques. Each of our kits invites you to discover and deepen a different watercolor technique.
A progressive method to learn watercolor
You get started with a simple method:
- A color chart to fill in allows you to become familiar with color gradients: watercolor gives the possibility of obtaining different effects depending on the dilution of the paint with water.
- An exercise sheet is used to immediately apply the proposed technique and to learn how to handle your brush.
- A progressive method encourages you to improve your skills: with our 3 sheets of watercolor paper, you follow the contours of the pattern, then you gradually learn to detach yourself from it.
Discover the basics of watercolor through 6 kits and the following techniques:
- Transparency ;
- The negative;
- The wet;
- Color gradients;
- Overlays;
- Fusion.
You learn techniques while creating. Also, your realization of decorative watercolor will embellish your interior or can be offered as a gift. These techniques, you can then reproduce them and gradually free yourself, if you wish, from printed paper to draw in watercolor by yourself.
Watercolor tutorials adapted to your level
If it is easy today to find watercolor tutorials on the Web, not all of them are necessarily suitable. These are not made for beginners in watercolour, and can be addressed to experienced people. Some sped up videos on Youtube are closer to artistic demonstration than watercolor tutorial.
French Kits combines the paper watercolor tutorial with the video tutorial! These two educational means accompany you from A to Z in your learning and allow you to create quickly. This avoids being frustrated because we do not understand how to arrive at a result due to a lack of explanations.
Make your first watercolor quickly
Spending many hours poring over a creation can be enjoyable or terribly unsatisfying! If you run out of time to move forward, the risk is simply to give up. All our watercolor models have been designed to be done on average in 1h30 to avoid any feeling of boredom or to take advantage of the time of a break to create.
Start watercolor with a complete kit: the best way to get started
Thanks to complete kits, which contain all the material to learn watercolor without investing a lot, you discover the pleasure of practicing a pleasant hobby without constraints. All the necessary material fits in a small format box and, with the tutorials, you make your first creation to decorate your interior or offer to a loved one.
