Today, I show you my favorite wet-into-wet practice technique.

This practice covers some important skills such as:

watercolor timing

values

brushwork

It also creates a beautiful mono-chrome back-lit sky.

The more time we spend practicing these fundamentals the stronger our paintings will be....

The fact is, if you want to be a better watercolor painter, you need to spend more time painting. But, I have some advice for you that can optimize the time you spend on your watercolor painting and speed up your learning. 

Here are 3 Methods to Accelerate Your Learning: 

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Have you ever found yourself halfway through a painting and wishing you could turn back time? The thing about watercolor painting is that there is no easy way to course correct. In fact, the more you try to correct your painting, the worse it actually looks. 

This is why it's crucial...

Water is fascinating - even mesmerizing. There is something about it that makes me want to paint it. 

However, with water scenes, you face the challenge of depicting reflections, which can be challenging. In this week’s video, I walk you through a painting and let you in on the...

What do you do when you feel uninspired? Do you wait for “it” to show up? And what do you do if it never shows up?

In this week’s video, we revisit an interview I had with watercolor artist Thomas Schaller where we talk about this exact topic - what to do when you are...

Being able to identify problems in your painting can be a real turning point on your painting journey. But this can take time, practice, and keen observation. 

To start, when you are unable to pinpoint what went wrong in a painting, assess it on the most common issues. From here, you can...

Maybe you’ve had this happen to you - You finally get that quiet time to paint, you enter your workspace, get all your supplies ready - and you have no idea what to paint. Instead of diving into this thing you love, you find yourself scrolling for that perfect reference photo that gives...

When I first picked up watercolor, I thought the best way to learn was to complete a painting each time I sat down to paint. Whether it was stubbornness or a way to prove to myself I was capable, I just felt like I had to render an entire scene. 

What I found over time was I grew the...