Join me for a free online art class where we celebrate the season and learn how to watercolor fireworks. Get inspired by all the varied fireworks shapes and sizes and learn how to use watercolors to paint a colorful, festive scene reminiscent of your favorite fireworks displays. In this online class, we will start with a few quick warm up exercises talking about all the different types of fireworks and how we could render them. Following, I will walk you through step by step how to let watercolor do what it does best (read: gorgeous washes and unexpected bleeds) to create a colorful night display. At the end you will have a scene perfect to prop in your window or send to a friend to remember the celebration!

Note: Videos for free art classes are created using recordings from the “live” Zoom session. All participants faces and names are omitted from the videos.

In this exercise, follow along and learn how to watercolor different types of colorful, popular firework shapes including the chrysanthemum, the willow, the palm, the crossette and and the horsetail.

Now that we have practiced a few firework shapes, we are going to put it together and watercolor a night sky filled with fireworks. We will do this in 2 phases, first we will watercolor the background with big washes of color. Once dry we will then add the firework details with paint pens on top.

We will wrap up our watercolor fireworks painting and discuss different ways you can explore making fireworks with watercolors from the additive method we used in these lessons to experimenting with resist methods.