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Watercolor Portrait Painting with Jenny Medved
Creature Art Teacher Course
Learn to paint expressive watercolor portraits with confidence and control.
Join Jenny Medved for a beautiful course focused on watercolor portrait painting.
You’ll explore drawing, washes, color mixing, skin tones, layering, edges, and the techniques needed to create expressive portraits in watercolor.
Watercolor
Portrait Painting
Skin Tones
With Jenny Medved
Portrait Painting
Skin Tones
With Jenny Medved
What You’ll Learn
Practice watercolor portrait techniques including washes, layering, color mixing, skin tones, edges, and expressive brushwork.
Watercolor Techniques
Learn how to build portraits gradually with transparent layers, controlled values, careful drawing, and thoughtful color choices.
Course Journey
Follow Jenny through the process of developing a portrait from early drawing and color planning to a more polished finished painting.
Meet Jenny Medved
Learn from watercolor artist and instructor Jenny Medved, known for her expressive portrait work and approachable teaching style.
Lessons
02 Paper & Materials
Learn about the materials you’ll use and how to build a paper frame, a watercolor panel on birch wood
03 Drawing Transfer and Initial Color Wash
Jenny shows you how to transfer your drawing into your paper panel and how to build your local colors.
04 Blocking in Darker Values and Skin Tones
Create your base tones and learn how to control your paint flow while you add layers.
05 Building Up More Glazing Layers and Applying Masking Fluid
Continue building your tones and apply masking fluid in preparation to add background color.
06 Laying in the Background and Removing Masking Fluid
Get tips to achieve a gradient paint background and to remove your masking fluid.
07 Refining Details and Building More Color Layers
Add more layers to your composition to build the darker tones and get more definition.
08 Adding Pastels + Preparing Final Image
Push your dark and light values with chalk pastels, fix them and wax your watercolor. Shares your artwork with #CreatureArtTeacher #JennyMedved
