Plein air painting easel for watercolor
From time to time I wondered about the weight and functionality of my plein air painting easel. It took too long to set up and was heavy. This got me thinking about just what is important in an outdoor watercolor easel and how I could reduce the weight so that...
Plein air easel for watercolor painting
You can see a photo of my light weight plein air easel below. The whole thing, excluding my plastic palette weighs only 1.146KG (2.527 lb) which is less than a third of the weight of my original setup. The old metal palette weighed 495gm when filled with watercolor...
Stress management techniques for watercolor painting
So now we have talked about how stress can be detrimental to your watercolor painting progress We will look at some additional techniques that can help you reduce this stress (stress management) Â so you can observe better and hence move your watercolor artwork along....
Stress and watercolor painting
New artists often find watercolor painting extremely stressful. Considering many people take up art to reduce stress this is not a good thing. The main problem with stress and watercolor painting is that when you are in a state of stress you stop observing. Yet...
Watercolor painting demo of warm red sky and reflections
I have just finished posting my latest watercolor painting demonstration. This one is of Lake Bonney in South Australia. You can view the complete demo at this link: Lake Bonney watecolor painting demonstration. You can see the finished watercolor painting below....PAPERBACKS AND EBOOKS
Mastering Watercolors, available from Amazon paperback and eBook.
My second book Watercolors, Step-By-Step, More step by step demonstrations.
