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If you’re a beginner and have just started your watercolour journey, setting up your watercolor palette can seem a little daunting. Organizing your painting colors may seem trivial, but it comes with a lot of benefits. Setting up your color palette not only makes your painting experience easier but also saves you a lot of time.

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

The beauty and enigma of a nebula are captured in this simple watercolor painting, made using the variegated wash technique.

What are you going to use for your palette? If you're like most artists you'll end up with several palettes including one special one that is your favorite. I happen to have aquired 8 ro 9 in my 35 years of painting. Are you a student or beginner on the cheap? For a basic palette use a plate, preferably white. Just something that is white, non-porous, and can hold some water. Ceramic, plastic, or metal, it doesn't matter in the long run, it's just a means to an end...making art. You can use recycled margarine containers, styrofoam meat trays, ice...

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

It's time for famous painting no. 5, where we'll be studying a painting from Claude Monet's "Water Lilies" series. In recreating this masterpiece, artist William “Bill” Dunn plays with color temperature to infuse the painting with an illusion of depth.

In around 4 hours, you will create a beautiful watercolor showing an idyllic beach in the Mediterranean, where families are relaxing together in the summer sunshine. In between washes you may use a hair dryer to hasten the drying process for the next stage. Using a hair dryer can be useful. Without one, you'll literally be watching the paint dry for at least the next few minutes. I use a palette with deep wells for mixing my watercolor paints with lots of water. I also use a big water container (like a child’s seaside bucket). I prefer to work with my...

Paint the complexity of the universe by simply using salt & watercolors, as seen in this easy tutorial given by Leonardo Pereznieto.