Paint Expressive Textures in Watercolor with Christa Forrest
Learn how to build radiant skin tones and dynamic hair texture one patient, luminous layer at a time.
In this expressive portrait lesson (73 mins), artist Christa Forrest shows you how to build radiant skin tones and dynamic hair texture one patient, luminous layer at a time.
Christa leans into watercolor’s unpredictability—spraying, blotting, and dancing her brush across the paper to coax out subtle shifts in tone and energetic curls of hair.
The focus here is not on photographic perfection, but on process: layering light and dark with intention, embracing flow and improvisation, and letting your materials guide you toward something surprising and soulful.
This lesson is a celebration of beauty, of texture and presence, and of the quiet power that comes from slowing down and letting your art unfold.
Ready to liberate your brush with Christa? Let's get started!
