How to Paint Complex Subjects

I recently painted this watercolor sketch as a way to explain the concept of lost and found edges in watercolors. This is mostly a fancy name for “hard and soft edges”. But in art, “lost edges” are a special type of soft edge where…
I don’t know about you, but I always seem to write my Christmas cards at the last minute! But this year I really wanted to design and paint some of my own watercolor cards for friends and family. So if you’re looking for inspiration…
This is going to be tricky! Some of you might not like me very much after you try this watercolor practice exercise… I can see people pulling their hair out in frustration already. This tutorial will allow you to practice all of the different…
These tasty looking pastries are very popular in France, where I live. In this lesson I’m going to show you how you can paint this macaron in watercolor in just a few simple steps. In all my tutorials I try to simplify the painting…
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…
Does watercolor ever feel so overwhelming, you just don’t know where to start? Maybe you sit down to paint, and before you’ve even begun, your brain’s already juggling too many colors, too many details, and too many decisions. And halfway through, it’s the same…
