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Celebrate the Season: A Daily Holiday Painting Practice
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Celebrate the magic of the holiday season with artist, author, and teacher Maria Carluccio while she guides you through her colorful and whimsical world of watercolor. Each prompt you paint will feel like opening a new gift each day. In this daily practice, Maria helps build your confidence with watercolor and reminds you that painting is like a conversation that you and your watercolor have with each other. Learn how to a create complete compositions with very simple shapes, use your sketch as a reference rather than painting directly on top of it, add details with ink and colored pencil, and imagine traditional holiday themes in charming and unexpected ways. Sled down a giant book, hang twinkle lights on an elephant, and find out who has been stealing all the candy canes.
Learn how to:
Here’s what you’ll need:
- Fluid Watercolor cold press paper block. (Blick art materials) 8x8 -Or- Canson 7 x 10 spiral bound pad
- Black Japanese Sumi ink (Amazon) or Higgins black ink (if you can’t get the Sumi ink)
- Crow Quill dip pen
- Porcelain painting palettes (preferred)
- Water container
- Paper towels
- Sharpened pencils (2B, HB)
- Eraser (standard)
- Bamboo Reed pen
- Salt
- Assorted color pencils
- Spray bottle
- Eyedropper
- Toothbrush (optional)
- Assorted brushes; Maria suggests the following:
- 1 medium sized Japanese bamboo brush
- 1 Flat and wide Japanese brush
- 2 larger “Flat” good quality brushes
- 2 good quality smaller brushes for watercolor
- 1 Medium reg. watercolor brush
- 1 Medium/small reg. watercolor brush
- A pack of inexpensive assorted brushes for experimentation
- Kuretake watercolor set; Maria uses the set of 48 colors but smaller sets are available as well
- A standard aluminum watercolor palette to put tube colors in (Blick or Amazon)
- Assorted tube colors; Maria prefers Windsor Newton or Academy and works with the following shades: Naples Yellow, Deep Yellow, Gold Ochre, Alizarin Crimson, Carmine Red, Scarlet, Purple Madder, Rose Madder, Thalo green, Thalo Yellow Green. Sap Green, Cobalt Green, Prussian Blue, Turquoise/Cobalt Turquoise, Indigo, Brown Madder, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber/Vandyke Brown, Davy’s Grey/Payne’s Grey, Charcoal Grey
Downloads:
- Build confidence with watercolor
- Sketch ideas in pencil
- Use your sketch as a reference rather than painting directly on top of it
- Dab out watercolor
- Use ink and colored pencil in your watercolor art
- Experiment with linework using a Crow Quill dip pen and bamboo reed pen
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![Celebrate the Season: A Daily Holiday Painting Practice](https://www.creativebug.com/pimage/dynamic/feed-248~storage/public/images/tutorial_thumbnails/original/1885/ygwc30owb2wwaqw3ki2p.jpg)
![A watercolor image of an exercising teddybear alongside a watercolor of a seated teddy bear, both from Maria Carluccio's Celebrate the Season Daily Holiday Painting Practice class on Creativebug.](https://www.creativebug.com/pimage/dynamic/feed-248~storage/public/images/tutorial_thumbnails/original/1885/images/muamuvw9a45zvxrgi4xf.jpg)
![Two images, one of a collection of watercolored wreathes and one of a watercolored elephant, both from Maria Carluccio's Celebrate the Season Daily Holiday Painting Practice class on Creativebug.](https://www.creativebug.com/pimage/dynamic/feed-248~storage/public/images/tutorial_thumbnails/original/1885/images/1x0qldlphags1sf2q9z1.jpg)
![An image of two whimsically painted vehicles, one yellow and one purple, both from Maria Carluccio's Celebrate the Season Daily Holiday Painting Practice class on Creativebug.](https://www.creativebug.com/pimage/dynamic/feed-248~storage/public/images/tutorial_thumbnails/original/1885/images/hqtnzmulcj8ex1gpfqcj.jpg)
![Two images of whimsical animals in holiday attire, including a reindeer with ornaments hanging from its antlers and a raccoon with a Santa hat eating a candy cone, both from Maria Carluccio's Celebrate the Season Daily Holiday Painting Practice class on C](https://www.creativebug.com/pimage/dynamic/feed-248~storage/public/images/tutorial_thumbnails/original/1885/images/dvpru5mjbsjimynnxeeh.jpg)
![A pencil sketch of a bear in a ballerina pose next to a watercolor of the bear wearing a blue vest, earmuffs, and dancing, both from Maria Carluccio's Celebrate the Season Daily Holiday Painting Practice class on Creativebug.](https://www.creativebug.com/pimage/dynamic/feed-248~storage/public/images/tutorial_thumbnails/original/1885/images/zgkjkbwx2t9s9whuylyg.jpg)
![A pencil sketch of a raccoon wearing a Santa hat eating a candy cone, next to the same raccoon painted in watercolor, both from Maria Carluccio's Celebrate the Season Daily Holiday Painting Practice class on Creativebug.](https://www.creativebug.com/pimage/dynamic/feed-248~storage/public/images/tutorial_thumbnails/original/1885/images/dksn7fhnlyxxyaxrs0go.jpg)
![A sketch and a watercolor of four bears, both from Maria Carluccio's Celebrate the Season Daily Holiday Painting Practice class on Creativebug.](https://www.creativebug.com/pimage/dynamic/feed-248~storage/public/images/tutorial_thumbnails/original/1885/images/ysx13po8g0gk3fn5zlpl.jpg)
![Two watercolor paintings, one of a snowman and one of a sledder, both from Maria Carluccio's Celebrate the Season Daily Holiday Painting Practice class on Creativebug.](https://www.creativebug.com/pimage/dynamic/feed-248~storage/public/images/tutorial_thumbnails/original/1885/images/vxaud1kht1szrjkude1w.jpg)
![Two watercolor paintings, one of a whimsically-styled Christmas tree and one of a forest of trees and mushrooms, both from Maria Carluccio's Celebrate the Season Daily Holiday Painting Practice class on Creativebug.](https://www.creativebug.com/pimage/dynamic/feed-248~storage/public/images/tutorial_thumbnails/original/1885/images/gt6rbcxo0oyoz8ybqddv.jpg)
![An assortment of watercolor paintings from Maria Carluccio's Celebrate the Season Daily Holiday Painting Practice class on Creativebug.](https://www.creativebug.com/pimage/dynamic/feed-248~storage/public/images/tutorial_thumbnails/original/1885/images/c3aszqn0ufpdefujd8va.jpg)
![Two watercolor paintings, one of four penguins and one of a bear holding holiday packages on his head, both from Maria Carluccio's Celebrate the Season Daily Holiday Painting Practice class on Creativebug.](https://www.creativebug.com/pimage/dynamic/feed-248~storage/public/images/tutorial_thumbnails/original/1885/images/fhqdfttmb0gmzlqxspjv.jpg)
![A watercolor painting of a forest of trees connected by a long strand of holiday lights from Maria Carluccio's Celebrate the Season Daily Holiday Painting Practice class on Creativebug.](https://www.creativebug.com/pimage/dynamic/feed-248~storage/public/images/tutorial_thumbnails/original/1885/images/fhl80xgdhsg028ozckky.jpg)
![An image of a holiday table laden with festive foods, rendered in watercolor, from Maria Carluccio's Celebrate the Season Daily Holiday Painting Practice class on Creativebug.](https://www.creativebug.com/pimage/dynamic/feed-248~storage/public/images/tutorial_thumbnails/original/1885/images/kcd8kmf3yo1hlr4uppwj.jpg)
![A process image from Maria Carluccio's Celebrate the Season Daily Holiday Painting Practice class on Creativebug, featuring a hand painting in the eyes of one of four teddy bear heads.](https://www.creativebug.com/pimage/dynamic/feed-248~storage/public/images/tutorial_thumbnails/original/1885/images/jhkrb04rihq1hx6ibquk.jpg)
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Celebrate the Season: A Daily Holiday Painting Practice Reviews
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Leslie Testa
Wow, she did so many great drawings and paintings! I loved it! I can use the techniques she teaches here for anything I can imagine! Fun!
July 7, 2024