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2013 Workshops will be on 7th - 11th January and on 14th - 18th Jan 2013.

Location: Nepean Art Society at 3 North Street, Penrith

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Watercolor brushes – 10 things which will damage them

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

Watercolor seascape demonstration for beginner watercolor artists

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

Watercolor Paper Selection

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

Painting the sea, people and birds with watercolor

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

How to paint sand and hills 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

Watercolor techniques: wet on dry

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

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

Wet on Wet Watercolor 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

Watercolor techniques: edges created with a round brush

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

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