Learn to paint in watercolor with Donna Zagotta

Discover the most interesting elements from your source material as you mold shapes and relationships to fit your unique vision. Join internationally respected artist, and teacher Donna Zagotta in this watercolor video workshop. Donna's inquisitive approach to design helps you create powerful compositions that say as much about you as they do about your subjects. [continued…]

The You Factor: Powerful Personal Design in Opaque Watercolor

Zagotta breaks her process into manageable steps and approaches design challenges one at a time. With her design firmly established, she is free to focus on her extended painting process. She concentrates on setting up color relationships and establishing a light pattern.

Zagotta mixes an extensive watercolor palette  with white gouache. The opaque paints free her to make corrections and solve design problems at any moment and achieve a complex layered effect. Donna develops color, shape, and value relationships until the painting passes he ultimate test: you know it's right when you love it!

Materials:  Crescent 115 lb. Hot Press Watercolor Board.
Brushes: Golden Taklon Flats.
Palette: Robert E. Wood Palettes.
Pigments: Zagotta uses more colors than can be listed here.
A complete pigment list is provided on the DVD in a printable PDF format.