Skillshare Courses

Watercolor Basics | Supplies & Techniques

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Start painting with watercolor: choose brushes and paints by brand, vary brush strokes, and practice graded and flat washes, wet-on-wet, lifting, masking fluid, dry brush, tape and layering.

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• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
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Watercolor Portraits - Dramatic Lighting Techniques

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Paint dramatic light in watercolor portraits: practice wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry mini-faces, map the planes of the head, and test color thumbnails.

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• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
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Slow Drawing, Slow Living: Get in the Flow with Ocean Doodles

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Making art is self-care: doodle calming waves, swirls, dots and dashes, and sea foam, then combine them into a layered abstract patterned seascape.

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• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
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Movement: Capturing Adventure-Filled Portraits

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Add motion to portraits with three techniques — hair in midair, feet off the ground, confetti — using camera settings, posing tips, smartphone shooting, and editing sequences.

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• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Monoprinting with the Gelli Plate

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Pull expressive monoprints from a Gelli plate using acrylic paint or water-based block printing ink, exploring drawing, painterly styles, and natural textures.

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• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
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C++ from Beginner to Expert

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Learn C++ from zero: variables, operators, loops and functions, pointers and dynamic memory, classes, inheritance, templates, exceptions, file streams, and STL vectors with iterators.

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• 16 hours 33 minutes
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Linocut in Children’s Book Illustration: Create a Unique Block Print Artwork

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Illustrate "The Ugly Duckling" in linocut: transfer images onto blocks, cut and print a title page and swan scene, and add golden elements.

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• 1 hour 15 minutes
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Freelance Video Production Guide

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Run a freelance video production business: decide between renting and buying gear, set rates, find jobs, write proposals, and manage day-to-day workflow.

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• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Modern Calligraphy: Pointed Pen Basics

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Learn pointed pen modern calligraphy: practice the 8 basic strokes, build lowercase and uppercase alphabets, connect letters into words, and write numbers and punctuation.

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• 3 hours 43 minutes
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• Free Trial Available

20 CSS Tricks You Probably Haven't Used Before

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Learn 20 lesser-known CSS properties and tricks — line-clamp, conic-gradient, text-stroke, object-fit, ch/vw/vh units and sibling combinators — through short lessons with examples and exercises.

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• 1 hour 12 minutes
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• Free Trial Available

100 Day Project with Watercolours - Practice Your Way Into an Expert

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Paint 100 watercolour studies in 100 days, one theme a week: night skies, galaxies, northern lights, mountains, oceans, lighthouses, forests and food, building a daily practice.

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• 1 day 22 hours 46 minutes
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Interior Design: Create a Plan For Your Perfect Room

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Turn Pinterest inspiration into an actionable room design plan: define your style, design around your layout, pick investment pieces, and build a moodboard.

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• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Mobile Photography & Instagram: Shooting and Editing with Android

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Shoot, edit and publish photos from an Android phone: sort your shots, edit in Snapseed and VSCO, then tweak and caption them for Instagram.

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• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

SINGING MADE EASY (Level 2): Sing like a Pro!

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Build stronger singing technique through Bel Canto exercises, vocal range development, passaggio transitions, falsetto, vocal runs, and expressive song interpretation.

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• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Designing Effective Banner Ads

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Design better banner ads: craft an engaging message, use typography, imagery and color well, add a strong call-to-action, animate, and export for web.

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• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available