Painting a Tree with Watercolor: Tips and Tricks Jun 17, 2024

If you’re interested in painting landscapes, one watercolor subject you’ll want to practice over and over are trees. Painting a tree with watercolor and knowing how to group trees and foliage in your scene are essential watercolor landscape skills.

So today we’re going to cover how to paint wate...

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Watercolor Landscape Tutorial: An Evening at the Lake Jun 10, 2024

Paint This Evening Lake with Me

When I make full-length tutorials like this one, my hope is that you watch it once through to get a feel for my process, and then you watch it again as you try your hand at it. You're welcome to come back to it as many times as you want, focusing on different aspe...

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Painting Light in Watercolor: a Tutorial Jun 03, 2024

I was out for a walk in my neighborhood and I saw this lovely evening scene and the light was hitting the side of this house. So I stopped and took this photo. 

And today I'm going to tell you how I was able to paint the light of this scene and make it feel believable. 

So if you've ever stru...

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Painting Watercolor Skies with Confidence May 27, 2024

Watercolor skies are captivating! They are gorgeous to look at, and also incredibly satisfying to create. 

But that doesn’t mean they’re easy to paint.  

This blog and video will provide you with the knowledge you need to paint gorgeous skies that will add intrigue and beauty to your watercolor...

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Watercolor Painting Light to Dark May 20, 2024

We all want that atmospheric light, that luminous glow, that bright sunlight in our watercolor paintings. 

To depict brilliant light, we must push our dark values as well as our light values. We want a full range of tonal values.

The interplay between light and dark is essential. And to push th...

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A Simple Watercolor Painting Background Tutorial May 13, 2024

Often it’s the details of our painting that get the most attention and praise. So new watercolor artists often believe that the more detail they add to their paintings, the better they’ll turn out. 

In fact, the opposite is true. Too much detail makes for chaotic, unordered, overworked paintings...

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Learn These Steps to the Watercolor Painting Process May 06, 2024

Whether you’re rendering a landscape, creating a nocturne, or painting a portrait, you need a concrete plan. Before you pick up your brush and mix your paints, let’s go through each step of the watercolor painting process. 

No matter what scene I am working on, I paint my watercolors in three wa...

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Top Watercolor Techniques to Create Depth in a Painting Apr 29, 2024

As a beginning watercolor artist, have you ever wondered how to create distance and depth on a thin sheet of paper? 

This blog post is going to address this topic head on. In it, I offer you four practical watercolor techniques to create depth in your watercolors.

How to Create Depth in a Paint...

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