How to Paint Complex Subjects

A lot of artists ask me how to match their existing paint colors to the ones I recommend. Finding equivalents to another artist’s palette of colors can be frustrating, especially if you already have lots of tubes of paints from another brand! This quick…
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Making watercolors glow is mostly about contrast — the contrast between light and dark areas, or between warm and cool colors. That’s a fairly well known artist’s rule of thumb. But in this painting I used one extra little trick to make the flowers…
It’s a simple question… Right ? And the answer probably seems obvious to more experienced watercolor artists. I remember when I was learning about watercolor painting, I wasn’t sure how other artists used tubes of paint. I found it quite mysterious how to handle…
Looking for some simple inspiration ? Below you’ll find some watercolor painting ideas which use very simple wet techniques. What do I mean by “wet techniques” ? In watercolors, the colored pigments are held in suspension by the water you use to dilute the…
This painting started out as a sketch, but after a while I began to think it would make a good example for talking about how to paint realistically with watercolor. In this tutorial I’ll show you the process behind the creation of this watercolor…
