Watercolor 101: Everything You Need to Know As a Beginner + Must-Know Exercises

Getting started with any new painting medium can be intimidating and overwhelming for anyone. 
The vast sea of information out there can make things even more confusing and can take us down rabbit holes that make us waste time we could be spending actually moving our skills forward. 
This course includes everything you need to know as a beginner getting started with watercolor, in one neat package. All of the must-know topics and must-do exercises are included, which will provide a solid foundation to jump off from. Not to mention, you won't spend money on supplies that you don't really need as a beginner watercolor artist. 
✱ What You'll Learn:
Must-have watercolor painting supplies
The characteristics that set watercolors apart from other painting mediums
Everything you need to know about watercolor paint formats
Everything you need to know about watercolor paper types
Everything you need to know about watercolor brushes
The main brush strokes to practice
The 3 basic watercolor washes to practice
Must-know techniques
How to transfer your pencil sketches onto watercolor paper
Stretching watercolor paper
✱ Supplies you'll need:
Though I do bring in a few extra supplies to explain about certain techniques and stretching watercolor paper, only basic watercolor painting supplies are really needed to follow along.
Watercolor paint set
Watercolor paper
Watercolor brushes
Backing board
Paint mixing palette
Pencil (I use an HB and a 2B in this course)
Erasers (soft drawing eraser and kneaded eraser)
Masking tape, artist tape or washi tape
Water container
Water spritzer (I use an old, emptied-out, cheap perfume bottle)
Absorbent towel or regular kitchen paper towels
Optional: Black Sharpie or pen, masking fluid, toothpicks, salt, tracing paper, extra pieces of watercolor paper to test out color/transparency