New ones available!! PROJECTS OR EXERCISES THAT YOU CAN PAINT AT HOME
Some of the projects on the home page are not shown on this page... but are available.
If you do not see the project you desire , pay for one below then send an email to me and I will help you. There are over 40 projects available...
When you purchase a packet (below) you will receive a project (like the one above) within two weeks. Projects include list of materials, full color figures, outline and directions. (Exercises may not include an outline.)
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Three Lil Turtles Beginner to Intermediate Learn how to paint water and the branch the turtles sit upon!
Ole Tractor Headlight Beginning to Intermediate This project is not as hard to paint as it looks!
Golden Light of the Desert Beginning Level This is an easy painting that shows you what to paint first, second and last. Easy Peasy!
Giraffe Beginning Level This is a perfect project to learn the Flow Wet-into-Wet technique that I teach all beginners when they start my classes.
On the Run This one is good for intermediate to advanced painters - includes a technique where you snap a string full of paint onto the paper!
Romping Baby Elephant This one is good for intermediate to advanced painters - learn how to make shadows by using swishing water over the wrinkles.
Best Buddies: Dog Cuddles Cat Intermediate to Advanced - Use a fountain brush to depict hair on this content pair of buddies. Learn how to use an Exacto knife to depict fur on a Terrier.
White Poinsettia Delights Hummingbird Intermediate - Use the Touch-and-Seep method to paint the flower and Pixeling to depict the irodescence of humming bird.
Pansies in Thrown Paint Beginning to Intermediate - Create a still life of flowers like these using splatter, spraying and swishing of watercolor!
Prickly Pear Cacti in Thrown Paint Intermediate to Advanced - Use color to bring an abstract of prickly pears, blossoms and paddles using splatter, spraying and swishing of watercolor!
Valerie's English Garden Intermediate- Very creative! Splash! Spatter! Squish! Let it dry then use negative painting to create the flowers.
Alstromeria Flowers Intermediate to Advanced - Closeup and dramatic! This project uses Valerie's known "Flow-Wet-Into-Wet" and "Touch and Seep" techniques.
Pink Magnolia
Easy - Has the most directions Flow Wet-into-Wet method
Bleeding Heart Fushia
Easy - Flow Wet-into-Wet method
Red Lily Easy - Learn about shadows and mixing colors
Bearded Iris
Intermediate - Learn about mixing colors and creating depth
Prickly Pears in Glass
Intermediate - Advanced
Learn to paint glass and use a LOT of color!
Fresh Blooms of Prickly Pear
Advanced - Learn how to make a dramatic background (Paint some of the easy ones first to learn how to paint flowers)
Red Hot Chili Peppers Loose and Easy - Throw paint and find a composition
Abstract of Orange Tulips
Loose and Easy - Drip paint and learn how to find a composition
Eyes of the Tiger
Advanced - the trick is to paint one side of the tigers face, then the other!
Towering Saguaro
Intermediate - Good project to start after any of the easy ones, because you gain a lot of practice on make the paint flow
Humming Bird
Easy! Touch-and-Seep method then add a "pixeling" technique
Cereus Awakening
Intermediate - Great after painting an easy project to learn the Flow Wet-into-Wet method on the flowers then learn how to make cactus thorns and a great sky!
Moving Proud!
Advanced - Use a thickening paste to make wrinkles on the elephant before you paint them.
1949 F1 Ford Truck
Easy - Intermediate
Flow Wet-into-Wet method for shine and chrome
Exercise: Drawing & Painting Rocks
Intermediate - Hard
Rocks are HARD to paint! In this EXERCISE, you scribble like a kid and come up with a composition that turns into rocks!