Greg Conley

Using everyday plastic saran wrap can be a nifty watercolor technique for producing unique textures and backgrounds.

Use this watercolor technique to intentionally drip watercolors into a vibrant color collage.

Techniques for using your blow dryer to dry your painting faster without messing everything up.

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.

The Classic The Classic grip for holding a watercolor brush is much like the way you hold a pen or pencil for writing. The only difference being that you (for the most part) are gripping the brush further from the business end of things. Pick up your brush and grip the thickest part of the handle above the ferrulle—the body of the brush—and hold it like you are getting ready to write a letter. Remember writing? Weigh the brush in your hand, roll it with your fingers, find the balance of the brush in your grip. Since you are holding...

Be inspired during this late spring season by painting a cherry blossom tree using a few easy watercolor techniques! Mr. Shibasaki shows us just how easy it can be while keeping a very natural yet soft look for this iconic Japanese tree.

Are you excited to paint explosions of color? Mako's back, and she's got an irRESISTible beginner watercolor technique to bring all your watercolor ideas to life! Painting fireworks has truly never been so easy.

How to use tissue paper as a watercolor technique for painting abstract textures.