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The World of Watercolor Painting with Birgit O’Connor — 78 episodes
Finding Your Creative Flow: Seeing Shapes and Letting Go
The Creative Process, Guest Artist Sha Sha Higby
The Plateau – The Creative Seasons of an Artist (Part 3)
The Creative Season of an Artist: Growth (Part 2)
The Courage to Begin – The Creative Seasons of an Artist (Part 1)
Can You Support Yourself as an Artist — and Stay Sane? The Lonely Artist (Part 4)
Making a Place to Paint — Even If It’s Small: The Lonely Artist (Part 3)
Growing with Confidence: The Lonely Artist (Part 2)
Finding Your Community: The Lonely Artist (Part 1)
Listening for the Painting: Finding Composition Through Intuition
When You Feel Stuck: How to Begin Anyway
Painting the Northern Lights in Watercolor: A Student's Journey
Plein air painting, Getting started
Feeling ”Fearless” or fearful?
Reference photos and licensing
Pushing through the fear, do you need to be perfect?
How to get motivated when you’re just not feeling it
Realism or Abstraction, painting a cluster of Monarch Butterflies
Why values are important in a painting
Grow your creativity
Are you painting from your heart or your head?
Ranger inks, what’s the difference between Inks and Watercolor pigment
I Love this brush, effortless glazing without lifting the previous layer
Putting the Water Back Into Watercolor
Should you use black in a painting and do you outline your subjects?
Background ideas, problem solving, and what do when masking sticks to paper
How to increase color intensity and lift highlights in watercolor
Visit with Guest Artist Ingrid Butler in her home studio
Using one color to paint a fluffy cat, review of handmade Indian paper
Painting with a piece of paper
Interview with Andy Rycroft of Creative Productivity
Painting loose is not as easy as it looks
When life gets in the way
#044 Let's talk watercolor, with Guest artist Sterling Edwards
#043 Painting on Yupo paper / Guest Tamra Sheline
#042 How to Paint a Desert Path in Watercolor
#041 Guest interview with Ingrid Butler / The Business of Art
#040 Guest interview with Tony White Watercolor Artist from Tasmania
#039 Video painting review - Students getting loose
# 038 The Yellow Chair
#037 Foot prints in the Sand, and keep them simple
#036 Video Part 2 Loose Painting Pear
#035 Video Part 1 Loose Painting (Pear)
#034 How to get Past obstacles and get to your Creativity
#33 Video: Shadows & Highlights (Rocks Sand Sea Glass)
#032 Video: Guest interview with Jane Blundell - All about color
#031 Conversation with students
Bonus Episode Footprints in the snow
#030 Video: Rocks Sand & Sea Glass - Take a peek
#029 Conversation with students
#028 Video: Painting review & demonstration (Bold Rich Saturated color)
#027 Guest interview with Eva Nichols
#026 Video: Problem solving from the Waves & Water course
#025 How to work with Creative Blocks
#024 How to Enter Watercolor Competitions
#023 Building an Artist Website Part 2
#022 Building an Artist Website Part 1
#021 Students discuss which papers they liked best for the looser painting style
#20 Fear and Obstacles
#019 Say it out Loud Part 2
#018 Say it out Loud Part 1
# 017 Name your Artistic Goals
#016 Backgrounds & Shadows 12.2018
#015 Setting your Creative Goals for the New Year
#014 Develop your own Paintings
#013 Painting Loose Flowers
#012 Winter Solstice Landscapes
#011 Atmospheric Landscapes Getting Started Student meeting
#010 Painting a Holiday Poinsettia
#009 Exotic Orchids in Watercolor Student meeting
#008 From the studio - Conversation with Charlie O'Shields
#007 Waves & Water Waves & Water Jan- Feb 2018
#006 Waves & Water Feb 21 meeting
# 005 Backgrounds & Shadows Feb 8 meeting
#004 Waves & Water meeting Feb 7 lessons 5-8
#003 Background & Shadows Jan 25 2018 meeting
#002 Jan 24 Waves & Water meeting
#001 Atmos landscapes Dec 7 2017