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10 Ways to Create Depth in your Paintings!
Depth in a painting is known as atmospheric perspective, also called aerial perspective it is a method of creating the illusion of depth, or recession, in a painting
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Clematis Video a Demo in Watercolor
This weeks post is going to be short but sweet 🙂 I have been working all week on the article (video) for you. The painting part was faster than the editing of the video. It took 5 hours of straight out working on this and it was painful lol. But the more I do it the...
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QOR Watercolors vs. DaVinci, M. Graham and Winsor Newton Watercolors
QOR vs. DaVinci First off I just want to say that I love Golden paints,
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Glazing with Watercolor a How-to Article and Video
Glazing is painting one color on top of another dry color to change the value or color. I wanted to
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Pears on Arches Watercolor Board Demo
This watercolor pears demo was done using Arches watercolor Board and professional grade watercolors. For this demo, I used the following colors
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Mixing Greens with Watercolor
I prefer mixing greens but when I first started painting I had every color known to man. Can you say addiction,
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How To Paint Believable Shadows
Shadows can be a tricky thing to paint especially if you are painting from photos instead of real life. In order to paint
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Negative Painting – An Exercise to Help Make it Positive
Below, I have included an exercise that you can do to help you get
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Why You Need to Start Using a Colored Ground on Your Canvas
Standing there staring at the stark white, blank canvas. Is this a familiar scene? It was for me until I started using a colored ground
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