How to Paint Watercolor Paintings

by Joe | Jan 16, 2011 | Design, Fear of painting with watercolors, Tips, Tone, Watercolor painting steps

A watercolor painting usually progresses in the following manner: Large shapes to small shapes Wet on wet to wet on dry (could also be read as from soft edges to hard edges) Light tones (more water in a mix) to dark tones (less water in a mix) Cool colors (distance)...

Watercolor’s Most Important Ingredient

by Joe | Dec 23, 2010 | Handling water, Tips

Water is the most important ingredient when painting with watercolor paints. It is very important to know its characteristics or you will not be able to properly handle this medium. Many of the wonderful effects achieved in a great watercolor painting are directly...

Painting skies

by Joe | Dec 23, 2010 | Tips, Tone

[singlepic id=60 w=320 h=240 float=center] Tone of the Sky The sky is usually the lightest part of your painting – better too light than too dark. If you paint your sky to strong a tone then you will have to paint other parts of your painting even stronger which...