Make Art Where You Are: A Daily Practice by Courtney Cerruti

All levels | 2 hours 40 min

Make Art Where You Are: A Daily Practice
Overview01:21
Day 1 - What's In My Tool Kit07:47
Day 2 - Playing With Your Materials04:50
Day 3 - Painting With Two Colors05:38
Day 4 - Consider Contrast Watercolor Painting06:06
Day 5 - Layout Landscapes11:05
Day 6 - Using the White of the Page09:18
Day 7 - Color Palette Color Wheels05:06
Day 8 - Embrace Wonkiness04:39
Day 9 - Blind Contour Still Life03:29
Day 10 - Color Swatching a Bowl of Soup03:40
Day 11 - Doodle Borders07:00
Day 12 - Vertical Orientation04:01
Day 13 - Coloring Around Your Subject05:14
Day 14 - Grounded Object Painted Donut05:44
Day 15 - Off Register Fruits02:47
Day 16 - Simple Stroke Landscape06:21
Day 17 - Mark Making05:42
Day 18 - Make a Visual List of Breakfast Treats06:07
Day 19 - Inspired by Ephemera03:52
Day 20 - Tiny and Minimal Lollipop03:08
Day 21 - Draw a Leaf From Nature04:17
Day 22 - Limited Color Palette02:10
Day 23 - Enhanced Blind Contour Flowers05:40
Day 24 - Collaging Ephemera05:04
Day 25 - Blind Contour Landscape03:13
Day 26 - Neighborhood Color Palette02:23
Day 27 - Combining Techniques10:15
Day 28 - Flower Study04:29
Day 29 - Spontaneous Draw Delivery Truck02:13
Day 30 - Watercolor Landscape03:57
Day 31 - Review and Send-Off 03:28

Taught by Courtney Cerruti

Artist and author Courtney Cerruti provides an in-depth look into her tool kit for capturing the essence of a place and your personal impressions of everything you see around you. From a five-minute blind contour drawing to mixing a color palette of your surroundings, find opportunities to draw, make marks, and paint while you are on the move or in your own home. Courtney will share her favorite ways to use colored pencil, watercolor, and brush marker pens to create evocative sketches. Even if you only have five minutes, she encourages you to seize the moment for making art every single day.

Here’s what you’ll need:

Courtney's book Make Art Where You Are or sketchbook with mixed media paper
Ballpoint pen or Micron
Glue stick or double-sided tape
Koi Coloring brush pens
Set of 36 colored pencils - Courtney prefers the Prismacolor brand
Papermate pencil
Pencil sharpener
Basic travel watercolor set with a warm and cool version of each of the primaries - Courtney's palette includes: lemon yellow, cadmium yellow, cadmium red, vermillion, ultramarine, phthalo blue, opera rose, phthalo green, sap green, burnt sienna, yellow ochre, sepia, and indigo
Round watercolor brushes in size 10, 6 and 2 - Courtney prefers Escoda travel brushes, but also loves the Grumbacher GoldenEdge line
Container for water
Paper towel or paint rag
Clip or clothespin to keep your sketchbook open while working