by Joe | Oct 11, 2011 | Beginners Guide to Watercolor Painting, painting problems
A watercolor painting can be fixed One often hears artists say that you cannot fix a watercolor painting once you have painted it or a section of it. This is not necessarily true, there are many things you can do to repair a painting or part of it. At worst there are...
by Joe | Oct 3, 2011 | Beginners Guide to Watercolor Painting, Watercolor basics, Watercolor History
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...
by Joe | Aug 24, 2011 | Painting water, Reflections
How to paint water with watercolor paints? While this article on how to paint water relates to how to paint with watercolors specifically most of the information also applies to all other artist’s mediums. Whole books have been written on this subject so I shall...
by Joe | Aug 20, 2011 | Beginners Guide to Watercolor Painting, Painting birds, Painting figures, Rocks, Watercolor basics, Watercolor painting steps, Watercolor Painting Techniques
Painting the sea Now the sand is done we will now look at painting 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...
by Joe | Aug 20, 2011 | Beginners Guide to Watercolor Painting, Handling water, Watercolor basics, Watercolor Demonstrations
Painting the 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. Now paint the...