Caring for your watercolor brushes I am often giving my students advice about what to do and not to do with their watercolor brushes so I thought I would see if I could create a list of 10 things which will damage a watercolor (watercolour)brush. It took a bit of thinking but here is my [...] → Continue Reading Watercolor brushes – 10 things which will damage them
Figure 1: Seascape of row boats and sail boats at Pittwater, Sydney, Australia I have just finished a new watercolor (watercolour) painting demonstration for anyone who is a beginner watercolor artist interested in how to paint boats and inland water. Simple drawings and paintings of both row boats and sail boats are covered as well [...] → Continue Reading Watercolor seascape demonstration for beginner watercolor artists
How to choose the best watercolor paper for your painting? You can’t just paint a watercolor painting on any type of paper. You need to use artists’ quality watercolor paper if you want to produce good work that will survive the test of time. Some cheap papers have little or no sizing on them which [...] → Continue Reading Watercolor Paper Selection
Now the sand is done we will paint the sea. Using the same mix of watercolor paints but make sure the consistency is stronger than that used for the sky; we use a dry brush technique to paint the water. I use the point of my brush to establish the horizon line and then use [...] → Continue Reading Painting the sea, people and birds with watercolor
We now look at how to paint sand and hills with watercolor. In this step, figure 5, paint the distant hills, leaving a few untouched areas at the bottom of the closest hill were rocks will be place in the next step. Paint one wash over both hills and let it dry thoroughly. Figure 5: [...] → Continue Reading How to paint sand and hills with watercolor
Wet on dry watercolor painting technique Wet on Dry is the watercolor painting technique you use when you want to place a hard or sharpe edge on your painting, though you can also use it to cover an area with a nice clean watercolor wash, see figure 6. Figure 6: Wet on Dry, produces hard [...] → Continue Reading Watercolor techniques: wet on dry
Controlled Wet on Wet or Wet in Wet Technique As the paper dries, during the wet on wet technique, it will arrive at a point where it has lost its shine, now if at this stage you run the point of your brush across this damp section of paper you will see an interesting effect [...] → Continue Reading Controlled Wet on Wet or Wet in Wet Technique
We will now look at the wet on wet or wet in wet watercolor painting technique A good exercise to understand the potential of using wet on wet techniques is to mix a milk strength mixture of French Ultramarine and Alizarin Crimson. Then tape a quarter sheet of rough textured watercolor paper to your board. [...] → Continue Reading Wet on Wet Watercolor Technique
What is so important about edges? Venice Sunset, Italy Well, as watercolor artists, and artists in general, we paint our paintings through the creation of different edge shapes. In this article I will talk about these edges and how to use them to create our watercolor paintings. The examples I give are all made with [...] → Continue Reading Watercolor techniques: edges created with a round brush
Atmospheric beach sunset: Watercolor painting of an sunset on a pebbly beach with figures and reflections.
Atmospheric beach sunset: Watercolor painting of an sunset on a pebbly beach with figures and reflections.
Rising Mist, San Diego Harbor : Demonstration of how to paint an early morning misty scene with boats, water, and reflections.
Venice Sunset: Demonstration watercolor painting of a dramatic Venetian sunset with iconic buildings such as the Santa Maria Della Salute church.
