Learn how to apply variegated washes, a specific wet-on-wet watercolor technique.
Categories: Step-By-Step Painting Ideas , Watercolor Lessons , Advanced Techniques , Step-By-Step Lessons
October 27th, 2015
Phi Divine Proportion and the Golden Spiral Pleasing shapes, interesting coincidences, existential ramifications, and some mathematics reality... using this unique set of mathematical concepts can create an innate linear balance when used formally for composing your artwork. This is one of those weird places where science interacts with visual aesthetics, philosophy, and the meaning of life. Maybe. : Phi = 1.618033988749895... The Golden Number, prounounced "fi" as in "fly." In the Golden Rectangle with A as the height and B as the width, the ratio reveals itself: A is to B as B is to the sum of A and...
Categories: Step-By-Step Painting Ideas , Watercolor Lessons , Advanced Techniques , Step-By-Step Lessons
September 22nd, 2015
How to use wax crayons and wax candles as a watercolor technique to resist paint and produce special effects.
Categories: Watercolor Lessons , Advanced Techniques
September 11th, 2015
Some call it masking fluid. Some call it liquid frisket. Here are the techniques for applying it to your next painting.
Categories: Step-By-Step Painting Ideas , Watercolor Lessons , Advanced Techniques , Step-By-Step Lessons
September 11th, 2015
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
September 11th, 2015
