Advanced Techniques

Everything you need to know to paint a successful color portrait from a black-and-white photo.

Learn ways to control your splatter-painting technique to paint beautiful cherry blossom sakura trees.

How to use a knife as a watercolor technique for scratching woodgrain textures onto wet paint for realistic trees.

Did you know monoprinting can be a watercolor technique? Here's how to use it to produce one-of-a-kind watercolor prints.

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

It's a nifty (and remarkably useful) watercolor technique dubbed "watercolor resist." Here are 4 ways to pull it off.

These watercolor techniques put the word "color" in "watercolor." Includes an example landscape painting for you to follow along and try these techniques.

Learn how to apply variegated washes, a specific wet-on-wet watercolor technique.