Backgrounds and Shadows Special 6-week Interactive course – Birgit O’Connor

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Backgrounds & Shadows Special 6-week Interactive course

Special Interactive course Intermediate – Advanced

What students say

“Love the bonus material. What a bonus :)” Loree Landry

“I am really enjoying your classes. I enjoy painting the flowers and the format is perfect for me as it gives me lots of time to work on the paintings. The interactive online sessions are fantastic!” Lynn

“Thank you for the brilliant lessons. You are easy to listen to and you are so thorough with your explanations.Your approach is so rewarding. Thank you so much.” Wendy McLennan

Birgit is an excellent instructor who is organized, informative and thorough in her presentations. Also she is very supportive and helpful in her comments on the painting submissions. I felt strongly that she really wanted me to learn and improve and produce a painting that would make me feel that I had achieved a result that would be worthwhile. I would take another class from her in a heartbeat. Sincerely, Trish Kuncewicz

I never would have had the courage to put such a background on a painting before taking your lessons, but I can see now how much of an improvement it makes”. Jeanne Hall

Thank you, Birgit. YOU make learning fun, accessible, a DREAM come true! Your fine instruction makes it possible, Frances Gill-Turano

Take a Peek inside

This content rich course will help expand your skills, give you techniques, inspire new ideas, along with helping you create some really beautiful paintings

6- Week Interactive Course

Do you paint the background first, or leave it for last, keep it the white of the paper or add lots detail and color. These are just of a few of the questions we will be covering. In this course, I’ll help you find new ideas and different approaches to apply into your paintings using a push-pull affect to create more depth. Course includes two full step-by-step paintings “Apple Blossom” & “Quince” learn how to how to change and rearrange reference photos and transform them into more pleasing compositions.

• Lifetime access
• Live group meetings
• Go at your own pace
• Paint anytime day or night
• Ask questions
• Downloadable PDF reference photos and sketches
• Learn how to create your own reference material for future paintings.
• Understand how to change the feeling of a painting to brighten it up, make it moody or intense and dramatic.
• Why values are important
• Learn more about the water to color ratio
• The full course opens on the specified date and runs for 6 weeks.
• After the end date of the course, you can still participate with limited interaction.
• Learn how to fix and recover from a dreaded bloom in the middle of your painting and use it to your advantage.
• Course is rich in content
• Free Bonus Course Included

Course Curriculum

Welcome to class

• Welcome (3:41)
• Tips

Class board – Live Meeting Schedule

• Meeting Schedule (2:25)
• Joining a meeting using an iPad or Smart phone (0:39)

Material list

• Material list
• Palette set-up
• About the Materials
• Questions or comments

Resources & Private Facebook Group

• Reference photos & FB Groups

FQA

• How to login (3:36)
• Light, Medium Bold Primary colors
• How to keep track of where you are in the course
• How to print and download PDF files (8:28)
• How to make your own quick line drawing (1:19)
• How to print your own poster size images (9:58)
• How to post a painting (0:52)
• Questions or comments

Reviewing Basics: Bonus Course

• Watercolor Painting terms
• What you will need
• About brushes
• Setting up the Palette
• Tearing paper
• About Paper
• Paper type affects your painting
• Make your own pad of paper
• About Watercolor Paint
• Color Charts
• Warm, Cool, and Transparent Color
• Values and Water-to-color blends
• Where and when to sign a painting
• Common painting mistakes
• Questions or comments

Gathering background material

• Background Introduction (2:59)
• 1 Backgrounds Getting Started (17:39)
• Assignment
• 2 Backgrounds: How to use your camera (5:49)
• 3 Backgrounds: What to look for (3:01)
• Take a Quiz or Print the Worksheet
• Questions & comments

Background techniques

• 1 Background techniques wet-into-wet and wet-on-dry (14:18)
• 2 Background techniques: Dropping in water & Negative painting (12:29)
• 3 Background techniques: Texture (5:07)
• 4 Background techniques: Circles (12:30)
• How this can be applied into a painting
• Take a Quiz or Pint the Worksheet
• Post your workseets / Questions & comments

Apple Blossom reference photos & line drawing

• Reference photos in PDF and Jpeg
• Line drawing in panels, assemble 15×22 line drawing
• How to assemble and transfer the line sketch to watercolor paper
• Questions or comments

Apple Blossom Getting Started

• Introduction Values (3:50) (3:50)
• Lesson 1: Mask the Stamens (2:37)
• Lesson 2 Tint the background if needed (2:34)
• Lesson 3: Shading (7:28)
• Lesson 4 define the petals (6:25)
• Questions or comments

Apple Blossom Complex Shadows

• About Shadows
• Lesson 5 Complex shadows (9:11)
• Lesson 6 complex shadow (8:34)
• Lesson 7 complex shadows (3:26)
• Lesson 8 complex shadow (2:19)
• Lesson 9 complex shadows (8:16)
• Lesson 10 complex shadows (5:49)
• Questions or comments

Apple Blossom Branch, Buds & Center

• Lesson 11 the center (6:20)
• Lesson 12 Buds (7:38)
• Lesson 13 Branch (2:59)
• Questions or comments

Apple Blossom Background

• Lesson 14 Let the painting tell the story (3:23)
• Lesson 15 background (9:06)
• Lesson 16 final details (9:48)
• Post your painting / Questions or comments

Quince fruit & Background reference material

• Quince reference photo _ quarter sheet painting (11x15inches)
• Quince reference photos _ fits half sheet painting (15×22)
• Questions or comments

Quince fruit & Background lesson

• Material List – Quince
• Quince Intro (2:18)
• Quince Getting Started (6:58)
• Quince 2 The underpainting (9:47)
• Quince 3 Layering color (9:12)
• Quince 4 Shadow & Problem solving (4:46)
• Quince 5 How to fix a blossom (5:35)
• Quince 6 Adding the background (13:52)
• Quince 7 Layer Color (5:49)
• Post your paintings / Questions or comments

Optional half sheet (15×22) painting

• Quince optional 1 – Half sheet painting (10:45)
• Quince optional 2 – half sheet painting (10:58)
• Questions or comments

Bonus – Meeting Archive

• Recorded meetings June – July 2019 (337:53)
• Recorded meetings Nov – Dec 2018 (302:02)
• Recorded meetings May-June 2018 session (210:54)
• Previously recorded meetings Jan – Feb 2018 (401:25)
• Questions or comments