Next is testing the palette. This is not only for color but also how the pigment moves on the paper. This changes with the weather. Moisture in the air changes the paper’s absorption. Step 3 Fluid first coat creates the under lying movement for the...
Why in the world would one want to do this? I have been asked this as well as have been told many times, “Oh I dont want to sell my art I give it away.” The implication is art is above trade, buying and selling those plebian activities of human commerce...
Yellow is hard. It is hard to get it to sing. Yellow can go so, so flat. I wonder why that is.. I know how it happens but what is the science behind yellow going flat? I know if – — to make the yellow ‘stronger’ I have added layers of pigment,...
The next skill specific to watercolor I call Reductive Painting. It is a powerful way to build depth into the picture plane and to make an object come forward. It is going in and painting around an object. If you want to paint a trunk of a tree which is lighter than...