Is Art a Talent or a Skill? (How to Make Real Progress!)
November 9, 2024
Here’s a question for you: have you ever wondered if you’re “talented” enough to be an artist? Maybe you look at other people’s paintings and think, “Some people are just born with it… and I’m not one of them.” Or maybe you’ve felt that…
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Is Perfectionism Ruining Your Art? Do This…
September 24, 2024
Here’s a question for you – Is your biggest struggle trying to make everything perfect? Maybe you hesitate to use that nice sheet of watercolor paper because you’re afraid of messing it up? Or you buy sketchbooks but never draw in them because you…
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Mastering the Value Scale (Guide to Drawing, Making, & Using It in Art)
June 9, 2023
In real life, light reveals the form of an object. Without light, we cannot see forms. Light enables us to perceive the world around us as shapes that differ in brightness. Artists express lightness or darkness as “values” (or tones). Stronger values are dark. Lighter values…
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Examples of Value in Art (A Visual Guide!)
April 27, 2023
The concept of value in art is better understood with a few visual examples. After all, the definition in words can be tricky to understand. Value (also known as tonal value or tones) is: “the relative lightness or darkness of a color”. Ok… Great! …
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What is tone in Art – a Watercolorists Guide
July 17, 2025
You’ve probably heard artists talking about “tone” when describing art. When I first started watercolor painting I was a bit confused by all the vocabulary. One of my favorite artists Stan Miller talks a lot about value and tone and describes this as one…
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