Watercolor Classes Online

Very informative! Love her style of teaching as she gets to the point and no time is wasted. Easy to listen to, great visual and content. I learned a lot! If your starting out in watercolor get this course!

Adore this teacher. She is so cute and relatable. I would definitely take more classes of hers. Great info for beginners, love the Q&A as well.

Excellent course, and exceptional presentation of color fundamentals. The demonstrations really helped to drive home the concepts! Highly recommend.

A really great class that gives a good overview. Solid advice and makes watercolours very approachable.

As an experienced artist, I learned so much more than I ever knew about color relationship and how/why to use it. I would hIghly recommend this course to anyone who wants to expand their color skills and attain a deeper understanding of how to use it to make dynamic art.

definitely recommend this course. Really opened my eyes on using color and value to bring a subject together. Will be returning to this one.

Wow, I thought I would get bored in this class, but Mary explains everything and every aspect so well and keeps it interesting. Understanding colour has been my biggest struggles in my art journey. After this class I finally get it! It will take me a lot of trial and error, I had no idea there were so many aspects to it, but it all makes perfect sense. I am so glad that I can go back and review this class whenever I need, because you can't possibly take it all in. Thank you for sharing your knowledge but also doing the demonstrations. Great teacher!

I have already either taken or own all of Mary Jane Begin's online classes and this is another great one. This is a rather short class, so this is only a high-level overview of color as used in illustration or painting. It's not the whole thing. I think renaming the class to reflect that might change the expectation. Maybe something like "Color Fundamentals for Painting and Illustration" would be better. Mary Jane Begin has numerous classes on LinkedIn Learning which are in depth demonstrations which some who are wanting more might benefit from, a as well as some titles here on specific painting methods.

Nice quick little class. Even if you have already experimented with watercolors and gouache, you will learn something new. MJB is a natural presenter who explains her processes clearly and eloquently while encouraging experimentation. Even her little side tips--like squeezing the belly of a paint tube to suck the extra glob back in--will enhance your practice by lightyears. Best of all, she is serious about play! I look forward to taking her other classes on CL.

I think that so far, this is one of the best art classes I have taken, She is so thorough and complete. I love all the assignments and practice tips she has and has give. I think that she is an amazing teacher.

She took her time and I learned a lot !

This is a wonderful class. I really like the way MJ teaches and how much she shows you about her techniques. It is a great launching point to go explore more of your own style. Thank you so much.

Awesome class! Awesome instructor! Exactly what I was looking for, and highly recommended. :-)

This class deserves 5 stars. Molly is a wonderful instructor. She is not only thorough with her presentations, but also inspiring. I learned so much from this class and I know it will become a permanent part of my reference material. I highly recommend this class to anyone interested in watercolor painting.

This class is so informative. Lots of great tips and demonstrations. Very easy to listen to Molly teach. It’s a good pace. Love this class.

Really encouraging class. Makes you want to go and play with your watercolors.

Practical and well communicated.

I quite enjoy it, I do feel MJ speaks a bit fast (if one is not a native English speaker) as for the part of the demo´s it does feel a bit slow. Overall it was a great course to follow and I did learn a lot from it. Thanks

There was a lot of good info in this course about color theory! I found the first half of the class to be very informative. I was less motivated about the second half / demo videos, but overall there is plenty to learn from this course!

I am near the beginning of the class (mixing colors) and decided to write a review early because I love this class so much! Thank you, Molly, for your in depth explanations and having us dive right into 'playing' with the paints. Instruction is great, but actually doing something really helps me learn.

I’ve had foundations in many of the color instruction that was presented here so the information was a very good revisit. I also think it was explained better in this presentation than in the other training I’ve had. I enjoyed listening to the lecture, thankfully they weren’t drawn out until you want to stop listening. The demonstration was best after we moved off the charcoal drawing (although that was interesting to watch) because using the paints really brought home to me the application some of the lessons learned. I wish that part would have been more robust so that all of the elements in the lecture could have been directly called out in the demonstration. The instructor was most effective when not trying to multitask too much. Overall, I recommend this course.

Fantastic class - so informative and inspiring. After watching the lessons, I picked up my watercolors and started playing around with some of the covered techniques. Highly recommended!

I found this course to be extremely interesting and very well presented. Both the charcoal and color examples as presented really made sense to me. I hope she has more classes here!

I really love this course! I enjoyed the lessons as much as seeing MJ's drawing and painting demonstration. For someone who doesn't go to art school, this class offers as hands-on experience as an online class can do. The demonstration definitely brings my understanding of all taught concepts to the next level. Very great course to lay a foundation for understanding colours "in action". Absolutely recommended! :)

The lessons on opacity/transparency and grounds were the most useful for me. Instructor was interesting and presented the information well.