by Joe | Oct 31, 2012 | Class paintings, Painting skies, Painting Sunsets, Painting Trees, Painting water, Reflections, Wet on Wet
Lake Bonney sunset watercolor painting How to create a sunset watercolor painting was the topic for my Monday watercolor class this week. Â For this work I chose a sunset scene with lots of warm colors and interesting reflections. The reference photo was provided by...
by Joe | Feb 26, 2012 | Fog and mist, Painting Boats, Underwash, Watercolor Demonstrations, Wet in Wet, Wet on Wet
San Diego Harbor, Rising Mist 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 photo my wife took a number of...
by Joe | Aug 10, 2011 | Beginners Guide to Watercolor Painting, Edges, Landscape painting, Painting Boats, Painting water, Reflections, Shadows and reflections, Tips, Watercolor basics, Watercolor Painting Techniques, Wet in Wet, Wet on Wet
Controlled Wet on 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 as...
by Joe | Aug 10, 2011 | Beginners Guide to Watercolor Painting, Edges, Watercolor basics, Wet in Wet, Wet on Wet
We will now look at the wet on 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...