Online course by Alexander Votsmush

Watercolor cards

Learn how to find the best scenes and make marvelous gift cards in just 15-20 minutes!

LIFETIME ACCESS

Language: English

New Year, Christmas, Birthday - these are wonderful and beloved holidays for all of us! We invite you to plunge into the atmosphere of creative fun and paint gift cards together with Alexander Votsmush.

From this course, you will learn how to find original ideas for your scenes, make interesting sketches, and paint in a concise, calligraphic artist's manner. Any amazing card can be ready in just 20 minutes!

How easy is it to make the first step to the white paper? Trust your creative imagination, paint from your heart and dissolve in the process? You will learn all about this from Alexander's lessons!

This course is suitable for beginners and advanced watercolor artists!

Alexander Votsmush

a master of watercolor,
author of the course

Lesson 1

Introduction

Acquaintance with the artist. Organizational information, how to use the platform. The list of materials needed for the course.

Lesson 2

Warming-up

Alexander shows the basics of his watercolor techniques. Let’s make a quick sketch with imaginary characters!

Lesson 3

New Year

Step by step, let’s paint a fun gift card with Santa Claus and the Tiger — the symbol of the upcoming year! Learn to sketch with a pencil and paint with quick, large strokes "at a time.

Lesson 4

Christmas

A Wizard and two Angels will give you this wonderful holiday! Learn to improvise with color using the «wet on wet» technique and highlight accents with colored pencils.

Lesson 5

Birthday

The best birthday gift — love and adventure! Learn to develop imagination, create an unusual composition and paint an original watercolor fantasy.

Lesson 6

Easter

How to paint a funny Easter card? Find out from this lesson! Make a quick pencil sketch, learn how to choose colors, and place your greeting text in an interesting way.

Lesson 7

Women's Day 8 March

Let’s learn to think outside the box and create an interesting story! Paint an original congratulation card for Women’s Day in Alexander’s technique.

Lesson 8

Wedding

Down with perfection, precise details, and perfect shapes! Let’s paint an amazing watercolor wedding card in quick and abstract style. It only takes 12 minutes!

Lesson 9

Conclusion

Summing up, getting feedback, and performing a creative task using the acquired techniques and knowledge.

Meet your instructor

Alexander Votsmush

@votsmush 22,6 followers

Professional watercolor artist with over 20 years of experience.
Member of the Russian Artists' Union.
Since 1997 he has been participating in regular expositions in the exhibition halls of the Central House of Artists.
Over the past 20 years, he has held many thematic and individual exhibitions in Russia and took part in numerous international. Participated in the auction "Sotheby's" - "Art Link" (Israel).
Member of the International Art Fund, International Association of Artists (UNESCO).

Here you can see the works of Alexander

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Which materials do you need for the course?

Watercolor paper: large and small gluing
Simple sketchbook
Brushes (no. 2, 4, 5, 12 round and flat) - columns or synthetics
Fleitz
Plastic palette
Minimum size food containers for mixing colors, 3 pcs.
Paints in cuvettes and tubes: Ocher, Sienna, Sepia, Cobalt blue, Ultramarine, Scarlet, Black - the main colors! More is welcome
Simple pencil
Water