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...
Hi friends It has been a while since my last post I apologize! We have reached a place in our watercolor exploration from which there are several paths to take and have been deliberating which to follow at this time. What I have come up with is a curriculum of adding...
I wanted to be able to paint waves that did not look like a human hand had painted them. One can paint a wave in Oil or Pastel or even watercolor and it looks like a wave.. well it looks like a painting of a wave but it is not the same. A Wave painted with...
Hi friends I am sorry for the silence the last couple of days. Have been pondering how best to proceed! But before we return to watercolor, I want to share a belief rooted in an epiphany which evolved for me in the early years of painting This breaks both Truths and...
Today lets explore hues and edges. One of the most difficult aspects of watercolor is achieving glowing saturated hues. Hues are colors. This lesson will use our AY. Try a brush stroke of AY like 1/2 pigment and 1/2 water. Now try one 3/4 pigment and 1/4 water. One...
