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 LessonsLearn from the great Impressionist master, Claude Monet, in this course that shows you how to practice watercolor painting by copying the famous painting that sparked the Impressionist movement.
Categories: Step-By-Step Painting Ideas , Watercolor Lessons , Step-By-Step Lessons , Beginner TechniquesOn the Net Watercolor - France Artist Statement: "Time is made of pearls, each a world apart, each a complete life you may call a moment. It's not real, not unreal, it's made of reality and perception. Some moments have a deep resonance with your soul. Watercolor is, for me, the most harmonious way to convey those vibes, through a smile, a color, a shine, a freshness, a just-a-little-something-I-can't-tale, a very special light echoing in me." Joel Tenzin
Categories: Watercolor Paintings GalleryPaint wispy cirrus clouds & snowy mountains in this virtual watercolor class. These step-by-step instructions will help you improve your watercolor technique.
Categories: Step-By-Step Painting Ideas , Watercolor Lessons , Step-By-Step Lessons , Beginner TechniquesIn creating the watercolor "The Path Chosen", I used the following basic techniques: Flat wash, graded wash, glazed wash, dry brush, wet-in-wet, various wet and dry lift techniques, scrafitto, and Grafix® Incredible White Mask liquid frisket. First off, take some time to explore (and bookmark!) this and other watercolor and artist's sites to understand the tools, history, theory, and variety of styles and techniques of other artists. Once you have the basic idea of what's involved in being a watercolorist, you're ready to give it a go. You don't have to know how to draw really well to start to make...
Categories: Watercolor Lessons , Intermediate Techniques , Step-By-Step LessonsExperimenting is the best way to discover how to use watercolor and its various techniques, and this quick watercolor painting tutorial is perfect for beginners. It finishes off with an easy portrait painting as well!
Categories: Intermediate Techniques , Step-By-Step LessonsPaper: a little history, a little trivia The variety of surfaces used to paint, draw, write and tally on have run the gamut from cave walls, clay tablets (Sumerians 5000-2000 BC), wood planks, papyrus (+-2500 BC), to parchment (1500-250 BC) and vellum, a finer variant of parchment. Papyrus was a woven mat of reeds, pounded together into a hard, thin sheet. Parchment and Vellum are make from specially processed animal hide (calves, goats, sheep) that are smoothed to a fine finish. The word "paper" actually comes down to us from the word "papyrus". According to contemporary Chinese records of AD...
Categories: Watercolor Lessons , Beginner Techniques