Claudia Nice: Painting Nature in Pen & Ink with Watercolor

There are many different approaches to creating a watercolor painting, and in this art instruction workshop, respected artist and educator Claudia Nice demonstrates the process of starting with pen and ink. Nice spends over two hours explaining her approach and techniques for creating a watercolor landscape with pen, ink and brush. Throughout the course of this video lesson, Nice introduces students of all levels to the basic techniques involved with watercolor painting, and introduces ways that a scene's vitality can be enhanced with the addition of pen and ink. In the first part of this step-by-step instructional video, Nice starts with a simple shell, and slowly progresses to painting leaves, birds and landscapes. Nice provides a useful demonstration of why simplifying a picture is so important. Through this lesson, students will learn that they don't have to paint everything they see to create beautiful pictures. In the second part of this watercolor painting workshop, Nice demons