How to Paint En Plein Air
Plein Air painting can feel intimidating, especially when you're first getting started.
First of all, you're leaving your private studio and opening yourself up to potentially painting in front of people. You're also dealing with the elements - wind, changing light, p...
Often, the allure of watercolor landscapes has to do with light or water - or both combined. We're naturally attracted to the beauty of lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans. Waterfalls take our breath away. Waves lull us into a relaxation. Rapids exhilarate and awaken us.
So, it is natural that...
My watercolor journey has included a lot of trial and error, and I’ve had a lot of unanswered questions along the way. Finding resources and guidance while learning to paint watercolor is sometimes difficult, and that’s why I offer this free watercolor instruction.
I want your journey to be eas...
As you grow and learn as a watercolor artist, there are so many lessons to learn, so many practices to incorporate. And sometimes you can feel years away from mastering them. These tips aren't addressing the huge, overwhelming parts of painting. They are quick, practical changes you can implement...
Painting Clouds Step-by-Step
Today, I'm going to show you how to paint a simple but effective sky that you can use with almost any subject that you want to paint. What I love about this is it only takes a couple of minutes to paint, but it creates a beautiful atmospheric effect. And I'm going to...
3 Watercolor Practices that are More Important than Talent
The number one lie that holds us back, is that the artists ahead of us have something that we don't have - and could never have. We assume they must have been born with some talent that is out of our reach. And then we ask ourselves ques...
Check Out This Book by Skip Lawrence
“Don’t allow your brain to blind your eyes.” - Skip Lawrence
So much of painting is learning to see what’s actually in front of us and not what we project onto the scene. This book - Painting Light and Shadow in Watercolor by Skip Lawrence - has helped me ...
Watercolor Drawing Techniques to Improve Your Paintings
Starting out, when I heard statements like drawing is the most foundational part of your painting, I felt intimidated because I - like many of you - did not go to art school. I didn’t spend months in formal study, learning the principles of...
