About Mara I enjoy being an artist! And I’ve been at it longer than this internet blogging stuff. In fact, blogging is all new to me! So I will start by telling you a little about myself. Our nest is not quite empty because we still enjoy the presence of our college-aged kids at home. […]
Watercolor Blooms Effect – Making the Best of the Bloom
About Mary Ann Raised in Mississippi, my interest in art began at an early age, but was secondary to my study of music until at the college level when I decided to pursue art as my major…..then studying Advertising Design, and not taking up watercolor painting until much later when my children were in school […]
Watercolor Painting Demonstration by Joe Cartwright
About I have been painting with watercolor since 1998. My paintings cover a wide range of subjects including portraits ,seascapes, landscape, flowers, wildlife and townscapes. I do not feel inclined to specialise in any one category as any subject can make an interesting work of art. I have been exhibiting at regional and National art […]
Watercolor Painting Techniques – Painting Metal
Silver Teapot Watercolor Demonstration Getting started Metal objects always pose a special problem for painters in watercolour. The purists among us don’t like to use a solid white to pick out the highlights, and beginners often avoid tackling shiny metal in still life paintings. Brass and copper are usually easier, as they have base colours […]
Watercolor Landscape Painting Demonstration
About Terry My art is about life. It expresses what I feel about people, places, and experiences around me. In order to create a painting, I need to feel a connection with a subject and see what that subject means to me. I need to see and feel every detail of it. When I immerse […]
Watercolor Painting Demonstration – Simple & Confident Brushstrokes
Here are two wonderful watercolor painting videos from artist Vinita Pappas. The purpose of these watercolor lessons is to teach you how to paint using simple, loose and confident brushstrokes. Vinita stresses the importance of practicing your brush strokes. Strong confident brush strokes will create strong confident paintings. Its as simple as that! Confident and […]
Soft Focus Watercolor Painting Technique
Here is a very interesting Watercolor Painting Technique video by artist Elizabeth Fluehr. This is a technique that you don’t see often and a somewhat unconventional usage of the Watercolor painting medium. Most of the water that she uses with this technique is for the purpose of wetting the paper and not added to the […]
The Looser You Get, The More Real It Seems: Watercolor Demonstration
About Debi Watson I showed talent with my drawing from an early age, but my parents discouraged me in the hope ‘that I would pursue something more productive’. I spent much of my adult life working as a operating room nurse, but couldn’t abandon my love for painting. Working long hours and raising two children […]
Painting Demonstration in Watercolor and Gouache
About Doug Doug Purdon was born in Toronto, Ontario. He is a full-time painter, teacher and writer. He is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and an elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists and Ontario Society of Artists. He currently lives in Toronto with his wife, the writer Rosemary Aubert. He […]
Watercolor Lesson – Learn How to Paint a Bluebird From a Photo
About Karen I am a self taught artist who loves to paint, and, if you can learn from loving it, that’s what I did. I am now living in Northeast Oklahoma, but I was brought up in Northern Wisconsin. My favorite things to paint are snow scenes and trees. I really like to see a […]