In today’s video, Robbie Laird demonstrates how to achieve repetitive line and texture in a watercolor painting, using just a few easy-to-find scraping tools.
As you’ll see, Robbie’s methods work great for adding texture to leaves, but it could also be adapted for any number of subjects. Take a look:
To learn more, check out Robbie Laird’s full watercolor tutorial at creative catalyst.
Finally, my "big project" is finished! It’s been a crazy day with a lot going on, but foliotwist.com is finally live and online! Since I’ve kept it a complete secret up until launch, here’s a quick (mostly visual) overview of what it does. . .read more
When you want to fill up space in an abstract painting (or any painting for that matter) it helps to have a few different techniques at hand for adding texture. In the following video, Carla O'Connor shares her methods for adding interesting, unique patterns to a painting using her own handwri. . . read more
Most paintings (especially portraits and figurative paintings) benefit from a good preliminary drawing before you ever pick up a brush. The traditional way of doing this is to draw on your canvas using charcoal or graphite, and then paint over it—but today we'd like to show you an altern. . . read more
In an abstract painting (as opposed to a realistic one) it's more important than ever to be conscious of design elements like line quality, texture, value contrast, and so on. For today's video tutorial, watercolor painter John Salminen demonstrates how he creates hard edges through masking, w. . . read more
Watercolors are an amazing medium, in part because of the fluidity of the paint itself. The inherent characteristics of water (surface tension, etc) allow artists to do many things with watercolors that other mediums do not. For example, in the video below Judy Morris demonstrates how to paint. . . read more
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