The Fearless Brush

A passion project by Sarah Burns

Monthly Tutorials on Patreon

What is Patreon?

It’s a subscription service for art lovers.

As long as you are subscribed, you get access ALL of the tutorials in your tier!

There are two options:

Tier 1: $5.00/mo.

Access to the Tier 1 library.

Tier 2: $10.00/mo.

Access to Tier 1 & Tier 2 library.

Pay monthly, cancel whenever you want. I post new tutorials to both tiers each month.

Choose Your Tutorial:

gouache tutorials

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(Tier 1)

watercolor tutorials

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(Tier 1)

Drawing tutorials and art concepts

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(Tier 1)

Advanced painting tutorials

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(Tier 2)

Click to view “Behind the Brush” tutorials
(Tier 2)

Tier 1: Watercolor

Ink and Watercolor Landscape — Line and Wash Tutorial

Holiday Card Watercolor Tutorial

Watercolor Pencils Snowy Forest Tutorial

Watercolor Beach Tutorial

Watercolor Sketch Mountains Tutorial

Watercolor Boat Tutorial

Watercolor Pencils Landscape Tutorial — Watercolor Pencils Tutorial

Simplified lily pond watercolor thumbnail

Learn the basics of flower painting — Basics of flower painting

Reflective Loch Watercolor Tutorial

Wet sand beach reflection watercolor tutorial

Watercolor holiday cards tutorial

Feather Painting Tutorial

Value study tutorial

Watercolor Waterfall Tutorial

Vine Covered Wall Paintalong

Forest Trail Paintalong

Quick Sketches Tutorial

Watercolor & Ink Flower Tutorial

Watercolor Forest Light Tutorial

Watercolor Holiday Cards Tutorial

Watercolor Sunny Snow Tutorial

Watercolor Backlit Leaves Tutorial

Watercolor Waves Tutorial

Watercolor Misty Mountains Tutorial

Watercolor Summer Mountains Tutorial

Watercolor Flower Tutorial

Tier 1: Gouache

Snowy Mountain Gouache Tutorial

Autumn Forest Gouache Tutorial

Gouache Architecture Tutorial

Gouache mountain river tutorial

Gouache Bird Tutorial

Gouache Plein Air Tutorial

Misty Mountain Gouache Tutorial

Orange Still Life Gouache Tutorial

Aurora Northern Lights Gouache Tutorial — Aurora Gouache Tutorial

Coastal gouache painting with Emphasized blue shadows — Emphasized blue shadows

Ease into Gouache

Splashy gouache waves

Misty Mountains Gouache Tutorial

Weathered Wood Goauche Tutorial

Gouache Coastal Painting Tutorial

Tier 1: Drawing & Art Concepts

Barn Drawing Ink Tutorial — Ink Tutorial

Water Soluble Graphite Tutorial

How to paint a master study

Loose Sketching Tutorial

Creative Brushwork Tutorial

How to Draw More Accurately

How to Use Reference Photos

Oil Painting Tutorial

Tier 2: Bonus Tutorials & Advanced

Line Drawing Landscape Tutorial — Line Drawing Tutorial

Spring Cloud Tutorial

Rays of Light Watercolor Tutorial

Reflections Tutorial

Misty Trees Watercolor Tutorial

Pears Gouache tutorial — Gouache Pear Tutorial

Detailed Boats with Gouache Tutorial

Expressive Gouache Sunset Tutorial

Misty Watercolor Waterfall Tutorial

Gouache Serene Lake Tutorial

Watercolor Sunset Wet Sand Tutorial

Gouache Sunset Loch Tutorial

Gouache Summer Waterfall Tutorial

Expressive Watercolor Forest Tutorial

Winter Gouache Tutorial

2-Color Gouache Challenge

Celtic Tree Tutorial

Gouache Boat Tutorial

Importance of Basics

Watercolor Grass Tutorial

Mixing Neutral Colors

Drawing rocks tutorial

Ink Wash Painting Tutorial

Gouache Brick wall tutorial

Gouache holiday card tutorial sm

Tree Details Tutorial — Watercolor Oak Tree Details Tutorial

Glencoe Mist watercolor

Complete Plein Air Tutorial

Marker to Watercolor Tutorial

Tier 2: Behind the Brush

Introducing a new series about the “why” of painting

Importance of Master Studies

How to simplify a complex subject

Choosing colors for your palette

How I taught myself to use stylized colors in a landscape

Intro to color harmony in a stylized landscape

A fun two-color exercise

Finishing & presenting a painting

How to do Color Studies (and what it teaches us)

How to figure out how a painting was made — Let’s play “how was it painted?”

Creating a custom limited palette for plein air

Drawing everyday objects with simple shapes

Learn from your Past – repainting the same scene after years

How much water to use with Gouache?