Watercolour
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Free Tutorials

These are some of the many free tutorials out there in the 'Cloud'

Basic Watercolour	Pretty basic.
Colour theory	How colours work
Colour: Basic Mixing
Colour: Compound colours
Demo - M.V. Clematis	Line drawing available - uses PC
Demo - Dunstan Church	1 page - Ray Campbell Smith
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Demo - Golden Woods
Demo - Paint a bird	also has Realplayer video
Demo - Painting Hats	Asimple exercise using just three colours
Demo- Shagrock , New Zealand
Drawing Sailing Ships	4 pages with lots of illustrations
Dry Brush Technique	10 stage demo
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Elements - Direction	The element of direction - Control it
Elements and Principles of Design	The building blocks that go to make up a work of art
Elements: Clouds	making the sky a major part of the subject
Elements: Foliage	taking the mystery out
Elements: Shadows	painting convincing looking shadows
Elements: Small figures	an easy way to paint small figures in watercolour
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Elements: Trees	trees need not be difficult to paint
Elements: Trees Step-by-Step: (w/frisket),
Industrial stuff	take a different approach to your subject
Landscape features	breaking landscape subjects down into simple elements
Materials
On Location
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Painting with Saltwater	A new technique
Photographs	make them easier to work from
Planning Washes
Portrait series	A series of eleven lessons
Portrait: Alyssa	Demonstartion
Portrait: Catherine	Demonstartion
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Practicing Your Brushwork
Question and answer	answers to all sorts of questions
SL - Bowl and Apples	Still Life
SL - Bowl of Fruit	Still Life
SL - Magnolias
SL - Roses
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Texture	give your work a more interesting surface
Tips for beginners	tips and techniques to help you avoid the most common problems
Tonal contrast
Video - Painting Clouds - Bob Davies
Watercolour - TECHNIQUE
What to include	what to put in and what to leave out
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