Learn the essential watercolor techniques that will allow you to paint anything with ease. Read this before you pick up your brush!
Psychology & Art
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Essential line and Wash. In this free live workshop, you'll learn how to draw and paint a coastal landscape.
Do you feel like you're not progressing in your watercolours? Sometimes no matter how hard you try, something unexpected always comes up. Maybe it's a stray brush stroke. Or perhaps a bloom. Or how about that time you added too much paint on your brush and turned day into night!
Loosen up your painting! One of the most common questions I get is 'how can I loosen up my style?' Fair question. Is it a matter of how you hold your brush? A technique? Or, is it just a style that some people have and some don't?
Easy Watercolor Portrait Sketching – Introduction and Debrief Learn how to do some easy watercolor portrait sketching in my recent workshop. I show you how to sketch any portrait in 10-15 minutes! In this workshop, we will try something a little different. We’ll be sketching simple portraits from a variety […]
Painting a male portrait is similar to painting a female portrait, although there are a few considerations to keep in mind. I will go through some of these below as well as some of my thoughts on my final painting.
Learning watercolor texture and tones? This was a fun workshop that I ran recently on how to create textures and tones through a variety of layering techniques.
The more I look at this once, the more I like it. It's such a simple landscape but it really highlights the beauty of watercolors. There's something magical about the soft transitions, the light, and seems to fade in and out that seems unique to this medium.
In this Complex Landscapes Made Easy article and workshop, you'll learn how to paint Las Vegas and Tokyo.
In this article, I will go through some of my thoughts about uncertainty, then we will talk about how it links to learning watercolor painting. I'll also talk about some of my personal experiences feeling uncertain when learning or trying something new when painting.
In this article and video, I will go through a New York watercolor tutorial. I'll show you how to use a graphic line and wash style to create a strong and vibrant scene.
This article will go through some essential watercolor painting composition tips to help you improve the flow and structure of your paintings. But firstly, why should you bother with composition?
Here's some essential line and wash tips I wanted to share with you. I go through all the essentials of line and wash sketching.
Paint Sunflowers and Venice – Overview Hey everyone, today I decided to paint some sunflowers and a Venice landscape as part of my free live workshops that I run. What do you struggle with most in learning watercolors? It’s frustrating learning how to turn a reference photo into a painting. […]
Here are 7 important tips that I put together for line and wash paintings that might help you if you’re learning this unique style. Consistency is the key to improvement! Tip 1: Take your time with the drawing. It is important to do so as unlike pencil, it will always […]