Watercolor classes
Monica teaches watercolor painting in Nacka, Sweden.
In the classes she teach everything from paper to pigments and composition.
She has the many paintings she has made as a help.
Please visit Academie Libres homepage to see some of her students works.
Storm
32. Technique:Leave the white paper without paint for the foam. Use non-flowering pigments for the background (i.e. Naples Yellow for the sky).
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Watercolor. 14.8x9.9 in.
The painting to the left is an example of how to use sand paper for creation of effects.
The painting to the right is an example of using the pigment properties to create nebulas and granulations.
Underwater Stones
31. Technique:By dripping a color or water on wet paint with flowering pigments this can make formations giving the surface life.
Watercolor. 11.9x10.3 in.
Portrait painting
Snow Melting
27. Technique:By schumring the dry paper and scraping with a knife in wet paint furrows of snow can be created. Top: Drip water at the paper before the sky has dried and scrape the trees in wet paint.
Watercolor. 12.6x9.1 in.
Rain fall
21. Technique:Use Lifting Preparation. Paint the clouds. Wash the rain.
Watercolor. 6.5x4.4 in.
Forst snow in Härjedalen
20. Quick skecth. Leave out the white parts.
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Watercolor. 6.7x4.6 in.
Winter in Springtime
19. Here the techniques schumring and left-out-parts has been used.
Watercolor. 12.3x9.1 in.
Springtime in Crete
14. Tip: Use Art Masking Fluid for the cherry trees. Scrape the wet paint with a palette knife for branches.
Watercolor. 14.2x17 in.
Fox Sett
9. From the forest behind the cottage on Simskäla island. Technique: Use Art Masking Fluid for the trees. Wet one stone at a time. Paint them using Wet-Wet technique.
Watercolor. 18.6x14 in.
Winter Birches
8. See also the painting "Fox Set". Technique: Paint the background, rub away the masking. Paint the trees.
Watercolor. 10.3x13.8 in.
The Well, Simskäla
7. Sunlight over the old well. Technique: Mask the flowers. (See also the painting "Fox Set")
Watercolor. 13.8x17.4 in.