Week 1
Lesson 1
Watercolor: Black-eyed Susan flowers 
Week One: This watercolor lesson focuses on shaping leaves and petals and layering watercolor paint to give your painting more depth and realism. 
 Week 2
Lesson 2
Acrylic: Beach with waves
Week Two: Students will focus on creating a horizon line with masking tape to create a horizon line on the sea. They will also learn to layer waves and create surf on the sandy shore. 
 Week 3
Lesson 3
Watercolor: Monarch butterfly
Week Three: Students will focus on adding an outline in ink to help with details. This helps with small details, like on this butterfly.
 Week 4
Lesson 4
Acrylic: Spring birch tree grove
Week Four: Students will focus on using masking tape to block out part of a painting to protect spaces that we want to keep white.
 Week 5
Lesson 5
Watercolor: Peacock close up
Week Five: Students will focus on using ink and watercolor to blend details and background-contrasting colors.
 Week 6
Lesson 6
Acrylic: Rose-breasted grosbeak
Week Six: Students will focus on creating contrasting colors and background accents to bring a painting to life.
 Week 7
Lesson 7
Watercolor: Bear in a snowy birch grove 
Week Seven: Students will focus on using layers of paint to look like fur.
 Week 8
Lesson 8
Acrylic: Migration
Week Eight: Students will focus on creating a background and using silhouettes to make a migration painting.
 Week 9
Lesson 9
Watercolor: Snowy owl 
Week Nine: Students will focus on using negative space to create a black and white owl.
 Week 10
Lesson 10
Acrylic: Textured chickadee
Week Ten: Students will focus on using both sides of  a brush to create texture in feathers.
 Week 11
Lesson 11
Watercolor: A fox in the snow 
Week Eleven: Students will focus on sharp details and color contrast to create a full scene with a subject and a background.
 Week 12
Lesson 12
Acrylic: Northern lights and a snowy river
Week Twelve: Students will focus on building from back to front and using other colors to create depth in white paint.
 Week 13
Lesson 13
Watercolor or Acrylic: Choose your lesson (Fireflies in a glass jar, Sea turtle)
Week Thirteen: 
Students will have four paintings available this week. 

Choose from...

Fireflies in a glass jar- Using acrylic paint to make a glass jar look transparent and fireflies appear to glow.

Sea turtle- Drawing an abstract or realistic sea turtle swimming with watercolor.

Mountains in snow- Create an acrylic painting in segments, first focusing on the top, then the bottom, then the middle

Dandelion seeds- Use acrylic paint to create a dandelion releasing its seeds into the wind.
 Week 14
Lesson 14
Watercolor or Acrylic: Choose your lesson (Camping, Giraffe, Trout, Mountains..)
Week fourteen: 
Students will have four paintings available this week. 

Choose from...

Camp scene- Paint an acrylic camping screen that appears to glow at night.

Abstract giraffe- Ripping tape and using watercolor paint to block off parts of a painting that aren't straight up and down.

Trout in Acrylic- Tiny details and blending to create a rainbow trout in acrylic paint.

Mountains with a card (acrylic paint)