Watercolor Painting Techniques – Dry Brush One of the brush strokes most often missing in beginners’ watercolor paintings is the Dry Brush Technique. This is a shame as it can add a great deal of energy and interest to a painting. While my comments are primarily directed at watercolor (watercolour) artists many of the points [...] → Continue Reading Dry Brush Technique for Watercolor Paintings
San Diego Harbor, Rising Mist Figure 1: Watercolor painting demonstration of boats and early morning rising mist by Joe Cartwright I have just loaded my latest watercolor demonstration painting. The painting is titled “Rising Mist” and is of an early morning scene on San Diego harbor with the mist rising. It is based on a [...] → Continue Reading Watercolor painting demonstration of boats and early morning rising mist
What is art masking fluid and how is it used? Masking fluid is liquid latex, which is a natural rubber, though there are synthetic versions of it as well. As a watercolor artist it allows you to protect parts of your painting allowing you to quickly paint over areas of your paper without having to [...] → Continue Reading Art Masking Fluid
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 painting demonstration of a misty and wet landscape Mt Hotham, Victoria, Australia I have just posted my latest watercolor painting demonstration on this site. It covers the topic of how to paint fog and mist, specifically in an Australian alpine landscape setting. You can find the demo on the demonstrations section of this site [...] → Continue Reading How to paint fog and mist in a landscape
I have been overseas for the past month so my posting has been non existent during that time so I figured I had better catch up. My main news is that I have been writing a book about painting with watercolors. It is basically a manual of what I have learnt and what I teach [...] → Continue Reading Watercolor Painting Book
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
Instead of horizontal or vertical brush strokes you can use a more curved stroke using the body of the brush head, which just lightly touches the watercolor paper. The trick to this technique is to have your brush almost parallel to your watercolor paper, and not to let the point of the brush touch the [...] → Continue Reading Modified Dry Brush or Broken Edge Technique
Dry Brush Techinique This edge, samples of which can be seen in figure 7, is created by sliding the brush quickly across the surface of your watercolor paper. There are a number of variables however which affect the final result you achieve. Figure 7: Dry Brush or Broken Edge Watercolor Painting Technique If you are [...] → Continue Reading Dry Brush Watercolor Technique : Also known as Broken Edge
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
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.
