Gridding to the rescue! Your tools for practicing watercolor painting.
Gridding to the rescue! Gridding will help you get everything straight. Your output won't look like Naive Art unless that's what you want. Gridding will make sure that you get the proportions right. And it will enable you to put everything in the right places. Without squelching your creativity.
Categories: Preparing for Painting , Beginner TechniquesFebruary 29th, 2024
"April showers bring May flowers", so here's a fun floral-themed lesson for you to enjoy! Let's paint unique watercolor flowers - rose edition - with Dana as she walks us through some basic watercolor techniques.
Categories: Step-By-Step Painting Ideas
February 29th, 2024
Gridding to the rescue! Your tools for practicing watercolor painting.
Gridding to the rescue! Gridding will help you get everything straight. Your output won't look like Naive Art unless that's what you want. Gridding will make sure that you get the proportions right. And it will enable you to put everything in the right places. Without squelching your creativity.
Categories: Preparing for Painting , Beginner Techniques
November 21st, 2023
Charting a Safe Course: Navigating Watercolor Painting Hazards
Discover essential safety tips for watercolor painting in this insightful article. Learn about selecting non-toxic materials, maintaining a safe workspace, and understanding potential hazards associated with certain pigments. Empower your artistic journey with practical guidance for a safe and mindful painting practice.
Categories: Watercolor Lessons
Learn how to paint beautiful watery landscapes with reflections and human figures with Vinita Pappas' beginner-friendly tutorial.
Categories: Step-By-Step Painting Ideas , Watercolor Lessons
Using watercolor pencils is a unique and incredible way to combine painting and drawing to create art. It's a medium that provides you with the best of both worlds. They look like regular colored pencils but behave like watercolors when mixed with water.
Categories: Watercolor Lessons
October 4th, 2022
Have you ever heard of Payne's Grey? It's a beautiful bluish-grey color that's commonly used in paintings and has become a staple in the art world. But did you know that the color is named after a painter named William Payne? Learn about Payne's life, his contributions to the art world, and his innovative watercolor painting techniques that have made him a pioneer of modern watercolor art.
Categories: Artists in Action
August 20th, 2023
Summer's here, which means it's time to warm up our watercolor palettes! In this tutorial, you'll learn how to paint a dreamy sunset cityscape inspired by a scene from the famous anime "Sailor Moon".
Categories: Intermediate Techniques , Step-By-Step Lessons
July 16th, 2019
Ono! it's plastic A very brief history of acrylic paint In a 1901 Germany laboratory, the noted chemist Dr. OTTO RÖHM first made synthetic acrylic resin. His ideas were brought into American commercial production in the 1930s through the efforts of Röhm & Haas and by E. I. DuPont de Nemours (Dupont). This particularly useful resin is used in durable forms of fiber, cast plastic sheeting such as plexiglas and Lucite as well as polymerized emulsions for making paint. In 1931 the first acrylic product to be used in any volume was perspex in the U.K. and plexiglas in America...
Categories: Watercolor Lessons , Color Theory
September 8th, 2015
Explore the wonderful world of color with artist Isabella Kung! You'll learn about color theory, the color wheel, and how to use color to its greatest advantage in the form of color schemes.
Categories: Watercolor Lessons , Color Theory , Preparing for Painting , Beginner Techniques
January 26th, 2018
Washington, D.C. "Swimming cove - Greece" © Thomas W. Schallerwww.thomasschaller.com California, USA "The Flavor of Utah" © Sterling Edwardswww.sterlingedwards.com North Carolina, USA "Pop's Corner" © M.E. 'Mike' Bailey, NWSwww.mebaileyart.com California, USA "Street Scene" © Milind Mulickwww.milindmulick.com Maharashtra, India "Siesta" © Andy Evansenwww.andyevansen.com Minnesota, USA
Categories: Watercolor Paintings Gallery
September 10th, 2015
