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 LessonsTechniques for Drawing Values Drawing Lines and Values Drawing involves the use of lines and clusters of lines called "values". Lines and values often merge spontaneously as you draw, one springing from another in the same stroke. The better you understand the range of expression and working qualities of your pencil or pen, the broader your palette of artistic options are when you create. A line is a flowing stroke of your pencil that defines an edge in the image you are drawing. Value is the gradation of grays you use to define the mass, form, light, and design of...
Categories: Watercolor Lessons , Beginner TechniquesWatercolors "My degree, from the University of Maryland, is in Art Education, and I have taken master's level courses from the Maryland Art Institute in Baltimore. I taught art for four years at the middle school level, and taught courses in drawing and painting for the recreation department. I worked as a free lance graphic artist for several years in Asheville, NC. I currently have a studio in Fort Mill SC where I show my work and teach classes. I also provide graphic and website design to other creative small businesses." —Elizabeth McRorie
Categories: Watercolor Paintings GalleryThere are thousands of talented artists who deserve to be highlighted on Beebly’s blog. We are doing our best to find them all… for now take a look at this selection of artists who produced these interesting paintings in 2017.
Categories: Watercolor Paintings GalleryAmerican Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Henry G. Keller had an accomplished forty-year career as a teacher at the Cleveland School of Art. His summer workshops in Berlin Heights, Ohio were popular with his students who had included Charles Burchfield, Paul Travis, and Frank Wilcox. Although he became the first artist in Ohio to achieve distinction as a watercolorist, few remaining examples of his work have been located. Keller was know for experimentation in techniques of mixed media painting including watercolor, tempera, and goauche. The influences of decorative Japanese design motifs, Henri Matisse, and Paul Cézanne are apparent in...
Categories: Artists in ActionPrepare to have your mind blown because in this tutorial, we're creating a fun, textured watercolor background just by using a spray bottle and the power of gravity.
Categories: Step-By-Step Painting Ideas , Step-By-Step Lessons , Beginner TechniquesWatercolor paint often comes in little solid disks affixed to a palette. It can also come in tubes of creamy paint or in solid crayons or pencil crayons.
Categories: Watercolor Lessons