Welcome to Day 2 of our FREE 3-Day Autumn Watercolor Challenge! Today, we’re continuing our autumn painting journey with a colorful Maple Leaf. Have fun exploring beautiful color transitions, loose watercolor textures, and all the little details that make an autumn leaf so unique. Take your time and enjoy painting with Anastasia!
There’s More Autumn Magic to Explore!
If you’re enjoying the challenge and would like to keep learning and painting with Anastasia, discover our Pumpkin Season Watercolor Sketching Course. You’ll practice essential watercolor and linework skills and then use them to create five complete autumn projects, all guided step by step.
And as a challenge participant, you can take advantage of a special offer!
In this lesson, Anastasia uses the following colors:
Jackson's Yellow Light PY154 [Jackson's] (Cadmium Yellow Medium PY35)
Azo Orange PO62 [M. Graham] (Cadmium Orange PO20)
Cadmium Red PR108 [Sennelier]
Burnt Umber PBr7 [Daniel Smith] (Van Dyke Brown PR102/PBk8)
Don’t worry if you don’t have these exact colors! You can use similar shades you already have in your watercolor set. There’s no need to buy the exact same paints or brands to join the challenge.
Homework: 1) Draw a sketch following the lesson 2) Take a photo of your sketch and post it:
In the comments below the video
In your Instagram feed with the hashtag #dreamanddrawschool and tag my account @dreamanddraw.school
Happy painting! We can’t wait to see your beautiful Pumpkin Stacks!
All copyrights to the lesson materials, methodology, images, including references, belong to Anastasia Kozlova and the Dream & Draw Art School. We do not permit the use of artworks created during the lessons or any lesson materials for commercial purposes. However, you are always welcome to study Anastasia's technique, which she shares in detail in the lessons, and apply it to create your own original works.
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