PUMPKINS IN WATERCOLOUR
FOR PAINTERS WHO WANT REAL SKILLS WITHOUT THE STRESS
Learn fundamental skills through a subject that makes you smile.
Serious art skills don't require serious subjects.
Pumpkins are gloriously forgiving - uneven, wonky, and wonderfully colourful - which makes them perfect for building confidence while having actual fun.
Dive into a cosy autumnal subject that rewards playfulness, celebrates imperfection, and teaches you more than you'd expect about values, volume, and vibrant colour combinations.
Through cheerful sketchbook explorations with mixed media, quick colour palette experiments, and a charming wheelbarrow scene, you'll discover how "simple" subjects can teach complex concepts, from showing dimensional form to making bold creative choices with colour.
By the end, you'll understand how to use values to create volume, choose shadow colours that make your work vibrate with life, and feel confident swapping colours from reference photos to make paintings uniquely yours.
If you’ve dabbled a little in watercolour before and are ready to build real watercolour skills through subjects that feel like play (and maybe add a cute face or two along the way), this course is for you!
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Sketchbook Success
Who knew a fun sketchbook doodle could teach you so much?
This playful start secretly teaches you fundamental skills about values, planes, and volume.
When it's time to put the pumpkin in the starring role in your full paintings, you"ll paint with understanding — making it much easier (and more fun).
Colour
Courage
This simple, forgiving subject makes it easy to experiment fearlessly.
Pumpkins become your safe container for trying vibrant colour combinations, swapping reference colours, and discovering what makes watercolours really glow.
Learn when to follow your reference and when to break free with confident colour choices.
Paint a Whole Series
We'll paint together, step by step to create two different paintings. Aside from the video you'll also have the line drawings and references so that you are guided all the way.
But there is no need to stop there!
Armed with these new techniques AND a library of carefully selected reference images, you'll be itching to create a whole series of your own pumpkin paintings.
Pumpkins in Watercolour
Celebrate everything that makes pumpkins perfect for autumn painting!
Glorious colours, generous forgiving shapes, and the pure joy they bring to any composition.
We begin with a sketchbook project using watercolour and coloured pencils, where you'll discover how these humble gourds are secretly teaching you fundamental skills: values, volume, and the magic of showing dimension through carved faces.
Next, we'll paint quick studies that explore the rainbow of pumpkin possibilities - vibrant oranges with purple shadows, mottled green varieties, and colour combinations that harness the power of the colour wheel.
Finally, we'll create a warming autumn scene with a wheelbarrow full of pumpkins, where you'll learn to make confident colour choices that transform a simple reference into something that feels unmistakably yours.
By the end, you'll have paintings that capture the cozy energy of the season, a solid grasp of how to create form and depth in any subject, and the freedom to play with colour in ways that make your work come alive.
You have two options 🤗
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Get instant access to:
👩🎨 a library of video lessons, references and line drawings so that you always have a painting project ready to go
⏰ quick projects to choose from when you are short on time
🏞️ just enough curated references available to never run out of things to paint, but not so many that you end up overwhelmed!
💡 an exciting painting series theme so that you feel freshly inspired
✍️ simple sketchbook project to support your painting skills and make painting easier and more fun
🤗 nurturing and encouraging environment so that you always feel welcome and supported
Here are your two options 🤗
- a fun Pumpkins sketchbook project that sets up your painting for success
- multiple Pumpkins painting projects, so you'll always have something to paint even when you are short on time
- step by step, real time narrated video lessons for Pumpkins
- line drawings (in case you are worried about the sketching part)
- curated library of inspiring reference images of Pumpkins
- access to the whole library of over 24 courses just like the Pumpkins including:
🌸 Wildflowers
🌱Garden Paths
🦜Birds
☕️Still Life
🏝️Beach Moods
and many more!
- different sketchbook exercises included in each course to build your skills
- a variety of painting subjects to try so you never feel bored
- a new monthly series course added to the library every month so you never run out of inspiration
- a fun Pumpkins sketchbook project that sets up your painting for success
- multiple Pumpkins painting projects, so you'll always have something to paint even when you are short on time
- step by step, real time narrated video lessons for Pumpkins
- line drawings (in case you are worried about the sketching part)
- curated library of inspiring reference images of Pumpkins
access to the whole library of over 20 courses just like the Pumpkins including:
🌸 Wildflowers
🌱Garden Paths
🦜Birds
☕️Still Life
🏝️Beach Moods
and many more!
different sketchbook exercises included in each course to build your skillsa variety of painting subjects to try so you never feel boreda new monthly series course added to the library every month so you never run out of inspiration
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FAQs
What supplies do I need?
I always recommend that you use what you already have. There is no need to use exactly the same supplies or colours as I am using.
I always include details of exactly what I use in each lesson but the broad basics include:
- 300gsm cold pressed watercolour paper either loose sheets, pads or sketchbooks - whatever you like best or have to hand
- a large round watercolour brush, and possibly a rigger (although even that is very much optional)
- watercolour paints
- a sketchbook or just loose sheets of copier paper and a pencil for sketching
How long do I have access to the course materials?
If you purchase the Standalone Edition of Pumpkins in Watercolour you will have instant and ongoing access to the materials.
If you purchase the membership you will have instant access to not only the Pumpkins in Watercolour class but also to the entire growing library of Happy Painters Hub courses. Your access to all of these courses will continue for as long as you choose to pay your low monthly membership subscription.
How does the membership pricing work?
If you subscribe to the membership, you will automatically be charged on a monthly basis. The membership fee is very low at the moment because the Hub is still relatively new. Over time, more and more content will be added so it is likely that the fee will increase in future enrolment periods.
However, when the subscription fee increases, existing members will continue to pay the low fee they originally signed up for.
That means you never have to worry about the subscription fee increasing for as long as you are a continuing member.
Don’t worry - that doesn’t mean you are stuck with me forever, cancelling or changing your billing details is easy. You can do it all yourself!
How would I cancel the membership?
Just click on Your Account from your student dashboard and you can easily edit your credit card details or cancel your subscription with a couple of clicks.
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