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 IdeasFebruary 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 TechniquesNovember 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 LessonsLearn how to paint beautiful watery landscapes with reflections and human figures with Vinita Pappas' beginner-friendly tutorial.
Categories: Step-By-Step Painting Ideas , Watercolor LessonsDiscover the meditative power of watercolor painting with Vinita Pappas' tutorial using yupo paper. Watch as she guides you through her unique technique of creating a beautiful, freeform background with fuchsia flowers, allowing you to unleash your creativity and leave the chaos behind.
Categories: Watercolor LessonsOne of the easiest watercolor painting ideas is painting silhouettes. Pair this with some bunnies looking at a full moon, and you have something magical without being overly complicated! Check out this tutorial to learn more.
Categories: Step-By-Step Painting Ideas , Watercolor Lessons , Beginner TechniquesKelly is a prolific and internationally recognized artist. She has a robust following on facebook and her own website where she sells her paintings independently. Her paintings take weeks or months to produce and they can be found in private collections, galleries and museums!
Categories: Artists in ActionPaul Klee, a Swiss-born German artist German-Swiss artist Paul Klee brought his personal expression about in the form of fantasy and whimsy. His perception of the "modern" world was rendered in brevity with a simplistic, primitive style which he drew from children's and primitive art. A member of the Blue Rider School, he believed in the unity of nature and emotion and derided illusionistic art. Using simple line and forms of men, animals, and fantastic creatures, his gentle commentary on human weakness and folly exploited the symbols, signs and archaic patterns of the collective unconscious. Klee's works are replete with...
Categories: Artists in ActionThere are thousands of talented artists who deserve to be highlighted on Beebly’s blog. We are doing our best to find them all… for now take a look at this selection of artists who produced these interesting paintings in 2019.
Categories: Watercolor Paintings GalleryAmerican Milford Zornes was born and raised in Oklahoma and he finished high school in California. After spending a couple years hitch-hiking across the USA he ended up studying art in 1927 at the Otis Art Institute. His watercolor instructor was Millard Sheets, a gifted painter and teacher, who joined Zornes as member of the "California Group." Mr. Zornes started winning awards for his work by 1933 and soon found himself working as a P.W.A.P. artist in the New Deal, painting murals in government and public buildings. In appreciation he was given a one man show in Washington, D.C. where...
Categories: Artists in Action