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Making watercolors glow is mostly about contrast — the contrast between light and dark areas, or between warm and cool colors. That’s a fairly well known artist’s rule of thumb.
But in this painting I used one extra little trick to make the flowers really stand out. It’s a simple layering sequence that gives them a soft halo of color — so the eye sees them as if the...
If you’ve ever put down a wash of color that came out too dark… and then just left it, because you didn’t know what else to do, this video might change how you approach that problem.
Most beginners learn fairly quickly that watercolor is hard to fix. And that’s true, up to a point. But there’s a brush that most beginners don’t have in their kit (or maybe you have, b...
Here’s something that changed how I paint wet-on-wet watercolor…
I think the problem most beginners have isn’t technique. It’s ‘timing’. And once you understand that, a lot of things start to fall into place.
In my new purposeful painting lesson, I walk through a framework I call ‘The Water Cycle’ … it’s a simple way to help understand what’s happening on your ...
Do you ever feel like wet-on-wet watercolor puts you in a constant battle with your paper? Too much water, and you get those cauliflower edges blooming where you didn’t want them. Too little, and the paper’s already too dry — and instead of those soft, diffused blends, you just get hard edges.
If that sounds familiar, the reason is probably ‘timing’.
Timin...