About AquaEssence
A Modern Watercolor Learning Studio
AquaEssence is a learning platform for watercolor painting that offers easy, sequential, and actionable lessons. We help novice and developing artists discover how to manipulate water, pigment, and paper in order to create beautiful, dynamic, well-designed paintings.
We Teach Watercolor From the Ground Up
Our courses give step-by-step instruction in fundamental watercolor techniques, empowering your confidence, control, and creativity.
We keep it simple
Watercolor needn’t be difficult to learn, we just break things down into simple steps so you can understand them.
We get you painting
Each lesson is a learning experience you can put right into practice on the canvas.
We encourage play
We want to see you develop your own artistic voice by trying out new things and experimenting!
Building Real Watercolor Skills
We focus on the basic principles of watercolour that will guide your journey from the basics to artistic expression.
Controlling the water
Learn to manipulate your water flow to achieve consistent and clean paint
Balancing colors
Learn how to mix colors and balance colors to achieve natural compositions
Layering color
Learn how to utilize layering to develop your painting through transparent washes
Expressive stroke
Learn how to apply strokes and utilize brush power to bring life to your work
Making Watercolor Accessible and Enjoyable
At the end of the day, we like to think of watercolor as intuitive, relaxing and easy to understand, and we wanted to create an instructional experience that reflected all of those ideals.
We’ve seen so many aspiring artists who struggle to get started because they haven’t been shown a clear, streamlined and methodical way to work with watercolor. And that’s exactly what AquaEssence was created to do, from the very first step.