Painting With Watercolors http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com Watercolor painting demonstrations, advice, and gallery Sat, 18 May 2013 12:46:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Painting mist http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/painting-mist/ http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/painting-mist/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 10:47:37 +0000 Joe http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/?p=1931 Last week’s Saturday class painting was about how to paint mist. In particular it was about painting mist around The Three Sisters in the Blue Mountains outside of Sydney. The reference photo was provided by my friend Rob Weaver, The Backard Watercolorist, who captured this image from the Scenic Railway at Katoomba. It caught my Continue Reading ...»

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]]> http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/painting-mist/feed/ 0 Wet weather street painting http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/wet-weather-street-painting/ http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/wet-weather-street-painting/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 06:14:15 +0000 Joe http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/?p=1924 Here is the wet weather street painting I did with my students last week. Actually the painting was completed over three classes. Here are the three main stages: Drawing a street scene The first week we covered how to draw a street scene. The key point is to start with eye level (horizon) and then Continue Reading ...»

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]]> http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/wet-weather-street-painting/feed/ 0 Painting light with watercolors http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/painting-light-with-watercolors/ http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/painting-light-with-watercolors/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 03:02:51 +0000 Joe http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/?p=1910 Recently I produced a couple of plein air paintings which I felt really captured the light. Painting light or how to represent light always fascinates me. So when I get it to work I am really happy. Both of these watercolor paintings were done at Yarramundi Reserve. The reserve is situated at the junction of Continue Reading ...»

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]]> http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/painting-light-with-watercolors/feed/ 2 Plein air painting of pond, hills and reflections http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/plein-air-painting-of-pond-hills-and-reflections/ http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/plein-air-painting-of-pond-hills-and-reflections/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:54:12 +0000 Joe http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/?p=1898 Recently I went plein air painting with my friends. We have a regular plein air day every Thursday. The group sometimes has eight or more people turn up and is a lot of fun. Most of the people who turn up to these plein air days are members of the Nepean Art Society, in Penrith. Continue Reading ...»

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]]> http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/plein-air-painting-of-pond-hills-and-reflections/feed/ 4 Watercolor painting of sheep on Australian farm http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/watercolor-painting-sheep-farm/ http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/watercolor-painting-sheep-farm/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2013 06:22:41 +0000 Joe http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/?p=1528 This watercolor painting was completed recently by my class. The week before I had conducted a workshop in the country and brought back some good reference photos. I was staying on a farm with loads of excellent painting subjects. As we hadn’t painted sheep before I thought this would be a good topic for a Continue Reading ...»

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]]> http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/watercolor-painting-sheep-farm/feed/ 0 Watercolor painting of shed with strong shadows http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/watercolor-painting-shed-strong-shadows/ http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/watercolor-painting-shed-strong-shadows/#comments Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:35:19 +0000 Joe http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/?p=1337 This watercolor painting of a shed with strong morning shadows was a painting I had my students do recently. The reason I selected this for the class painting was because it gave my students a chance to practice how to capture the early morning light and the shadows that result from it. It was based Continue Reading ...»

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]]> http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/watercolor-painting-shed-strong-shadows/feed/ 0 Plein air painting easel for watercolor http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/plein-air-painting-easel-watercolor/ http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/plein-air-painting-easel-watercolor/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:54:05 +0000 Joe http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/?p=1326 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 carrying it around is not Continue Reading ...»

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]]> http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/plein-air-painting-easel-watercolor/feed/ 0 Plein air easel for watercolor painting http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/plein-air-easel-for-watercolor-painting/ http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/plein-air-easel-for-watercolor-painting/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:53:02 +0000 Joe http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/?p=1329 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 paint while my new, modified plastic palette Continue Reading ...»

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]]> http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/plein-air-easel-for-watercolor-painting/feed/ 7 Stress management techniques for watercolor painting http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/stress-management-techniques-for-watercolor-painting/ http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/stress-management-techniques-for-watercolor-painting/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 04:27:40 +0000 Joe http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/?p=1303 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)  so you can observe better and hence move your watercolor artwork along. So now we have talked about how stress can be detrimental Continue Reading ...»

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]]> http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/stress-management-techniques-for-watercolor-painting/feed/ 0 Stress and watercolor painting http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/stress-watercolor-painting/ http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/stress-watercolor-painting/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 04:18:32 +0000 Joe http://www.paintingwithwatercolors.com/?p=1302 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 observation is a critical factor when painting with watercolors. Stress Continue Reading ...»

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