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
Dive into fur and detail by learning how to paint an adorable fennec fox on an abstract background.
Categories: Step-By-Step Painting Ideas , Watercolor Lessons , Advanced Techniques , Step-By-Step Lessons
October 30th, 2015
Minna Immonen is a Finnish artist who specializes in art for children's books. She has created a very popular series of postcards with her paintings which are sold in stores across Finland and all over Scandinavia. Her paintings are also used to adorn magnets, dishes, clothes, and more.
Categories: Artists in Action
January 27th, 2023
American Frank Wilcox was a native of Cleveland, Ohio who became a prominent American Scene watercolorist. In 1906 he enrolled in the Cleveland School of Art and later studied with Henry Keller exploring his artistic boundaries. Between 1910 and 1916, Wilcox and Keller experimented with plein air painting and the techniques of the Impressionists. Wilcox developed his signature style which was American Scene or regionalist genre in a transparent watercolor technique. Using fluid and sometimes calligraphic washes Frank Wilcox chronicled the historic lives of the people and scenery of Northern Ohio. — Watercolor Masters: Frank Nelson Wilcox © 2010 Greg...
Categories: Artists in Action
July 9th, 2016
Learn how to create beautiful watercolor tree paintings with this quick and simple tutorial you can follow. It involves easy-to-follow techniques, but the pay-off is a beautiful, life-like tree painting.
Categories: Step-By-Step Lessons , Beginner Techniques
December 31st, 2018
A lot of pigments are solids. They are finely ground, yet the particles sometimes remain particles even after being treated with water. Therefore, if your paint stain is dry, it’s always best to treat it with some kind of a gentle brush. That way you can break away the solid paint particles before wetting the stain again.
Categories: Watercolor Lessons
September 26th, 2022
Keep in mind that Monet used watercolors, pastels, and oils, so some of these results might not be achievable with only watercolors. Whenever you are setting out to copy a great painting, do research as to the type of medium the original artist used. Trying to reproduce an oil painting with watercolors may lead to disappointment as these two mediums behave and dry very differently
Categories: Artists in Action
September 8th, 2022
