When painting fur, it’s important to think in terms of layers. Take a look at this demonstration by Susan Bourdet - as you’ll see, she adds at least three layers of paint to get the desired texture
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In today’s video, watercolor painter Barbara Nechis demonstrates how to paint flowers using a wet-into-wet method. As you’ll see in the clip below, she starts by thoroughly (yet carefully) re-wetting her paper
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.
Vermont artist, Susan Abbott has a knack for creating bright, highly detailed, watercolor paintings. With degrees in painting and printmaking,...
Today, Jean Pederson gives a brief demonstration of how she layers various pigments of transparent watercolors to produce a realistic, three-dimensional image on paper. The subject matter she chose is tricky under the best of circumstances. . .
In today's video, Jean Pederson shows how she “reactivates” dried watercolor paper after it’s been sitting for a while. This lets her pause in the middle of a painting, and then pick up right where she left off an hour, a day, or even weeks later.
Sometimes what you see is not exactly what you get. . . and Angela Emsen-West’s images create that double-take. They seem like richly colored oil paintings, but in fact are actually created with watercolor.
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
Karen Ramsay is an artist who enjoys capturing the “everyday ordinary” through her ink and watercolor plein air paintings. She unites paint with a waterproof fine tip marker in a process that she calls
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
When it comes to technique, Brian Cody is primarily a traditional watercolor artist. His subject matter and quirky compositions, however, take him a little farther off the beaten path.
Most paintings (especially portraits and figurative paintings) benefit from a good preliminary drawing in charcoal or graphite. Today we’d like to show you how to create a different type of drawing using the "rub-out" method.