Streamed lesson “Squirrel. Watercolor"

was live on September 12, 2026

⏱ Total duration: ~1,45 hours
📹 Recording available with lifetime access

🌿 About This Stream

There's something about a tree trunk in autumn: half warmth, half shadow, holding an entire season in its bark. In this streamed lesson, that contrast is the whole point, and we chase it across two very different sketches until the paper feels alive rather than just colored in.

We start with one solitary trunk caught in afternoon sun, its cool blue-gray shadow side sitting right up against hot quinacridone oranges and golds in the leaves, the kind of complementary contrast that does half the work for you.

Then we slow the mood down for a second piece: a small huddle of tree trunks built with negative painting, where the misty gaps between the trees get washed in first and the trunks themselves emerge out of that space, dressed in muted violet-grays and warm brick reds instead of the first sketch's sunshine.

Along the way we work through what actually makes a loose sketch feel intentional instead of accidental: building color contrast on purpose, varying the pressure and wetness of a watercolor pencil line so no two branches read the same, letting salt, sprinkles and a sea sponge surprise you with texture, and knowing exactly when to put the fountain pen down before a sketch tips into overloaded. It's a process session more than a technique one, painting two trees, two moods, and trusting contrast to carry the work.

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