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Matting and Framing Your Work Matting your watercolors protects and enhances the look of your paintings by cleanly defining the image edges and isolating your image in a uniform neutral or complementary background. Mats are made from mat board which should be made from all cotton acid free fiber. How to make a mat 101 As a start, choose neutral off white mats either warm or cool depending of the overall hue and value of your painting. After you've been at it a while and have seen what others are doing with colors and bevels and layers feel free to...

Learn how to paint a seascape. Navigate the entire process, starting with just a reference photo, all the way through to completion.

Learn the basics of watercolor as artist Steve Curl introduces the essential tools used in watercolor painting, then shows how to practice and build a solid skill foundation with these tools.

Summer's here, which means it's time to warm up our watercolor palettes! In this tutorial, you'll learn how to paint a dreamy sunset cityscape inspired by a scene from the famous anime "Sailor Moon".

Follow along as Isabella Kung sketches and paints realistic fruit. We cover composition, different surfaces, masking fluid, shapes, and much more in this simple yet useful exercise. Click here if you prefer watching a step-by-step video on our Beeblys WatercolorPainting.com. Materials used: Reference picture of some fruits, or just place some real fruits on a sheet of paper H or HB pencil A block of Arches cold press watercolor paper (140lb, size 10" x 14") Paint palette for watercolor paints Kneaded eraser Grumbacher Masking Fluid Rubber cement pickup (a.k.a. natural rubber pickup) Paper towel Towel Tabletop easel or book to prop painting...

How to use scratching, scraping & stamping as watercolor techniques for achieving specific looks.

Philsophy of Sumi-e The Philosophy of Sumi-e is contrast and harmony, expressing simple beauty and elegance. The Tai Chi diagram demonstrates the perfectly balanced interchange of the two dynamically opposed forces of the Universe, the dot represents integration. Sumi-e employs these principles of nature's vitality in its design and execution. The balance and integration of these forces and the eternal interaction of Yin Yang are the ultimate goal of Sumi-e. The art of brush painting, aims to depict the spirit, rather than the semblance of the object. In creating a picture the artist must grasp the spirit of the subject....

The Color Wheel The 12-part Color wheel is a representation of the visual spectrum of light that us humans can actually see. It is the rainbow we see through the dispersion of white light through prisms and raindrops. The visible spectrum (traditional ROYGBIV) is a very small range of the whole electromagnetic spectrum that runs from radio waves on the long end to Gamma waves on the short end. Each color has a specific wave frequency that our eyes perceive as different color sensations. The basic color groupings that concern artists are the Primary colors (3), the Secondary colors (3),...