Techniques for layering different colors without ruining your painting. Categories: Watercolor Lessons ,  Beginner Techniques A little information about this watercolor technique To help me demonstrate this watercolor technique, I will improvise a landscape on the fly to show the principles of glazing watercolor washes. MATERIALS: Arches #140 CP watercolor paper, Grumbacher 1″ flat red sable, Kalish Kolinsky Red

Want to test an idea on a painting without painting anything? Try this watercolor technique for sketching ideas on tracing paper atop a painting before committing. Categories: Watercolor Lessons ,  Advanced Techniques Materials and intentions Requirements: BEFORE: Focal point without a payoff This painting (see above) had laid around the studio for a few months collecting dust and

Categories: Watercolor Lessons ,  Beginner Techniques History of the Watercolor Industry Origins and Original Recipes Watercolor came to western artists in the late 1400s. Artists had to formulate, prepare and grind their own watercolor paint and tended to keep their secret recipes and methods to themselves. In the 18th century the first paint manufacturers set up shop in

Categories: Watercolor Lessons ,  Beginner Techniques Popular Compositional Themes As a pastime, watercolor legend Edgar Whitney inventoried and cataloged successful painting compositions. He weighed the primary visual masses by size and value as well as arrangement and came up with six visual themes that most successful paintings appear to fall into. As an aid for composing paintings, these

Categories: Watercolor Lessons ,  Beginner Techniques Design Principles and Elements: an aesthetic tapestry Look around you. Everything you see that is made by man is made by design. Our buildings, our transportation, our entertainment, the items we consume; everything is designed for a purpose. Some design is utilitarian, some is ergonomic, some informative, and a whole lot of

Categories: Watercolor Lessons ,  Beginner Techniques The Color Wheel The 12-part Color wheel is a representation of the visual spectrum of light that us humans can actually see. It is the rainbow we see through the dispersion of white light through prisms and raindrops. The visible spectrum (traditional ROYGBIV) is a very small range of the whole electromagnetic