My palette on the videos
Info on the long, narrow palette in some of my videos. Pros and cons and some other palette options.
Blog
Creating a Sense of Depth and Believable Shadows
Creating a sense of depth and believable shadows, especially on red, yellow and orange objects.
Studio Chat 2023.12.01—The Power of Reflection and Negative Space
This is a great time of year to reflect on your painting journey and explore the power of negative space in your paintings and your life.
Planning a watercolor, part 6: Bringing in other media to create a successful painting
Some situations are inherently difficult to paint with transparent watercolor alone. Bringing in a other media may help you create a successful painting with less struggle.
Rules for watercolor?
Why is it so hard for us to just ignore them? Should we actually be following them?
Planning a watercolor, part 5: Am I working with the medium’s natural tendencies?
Save yourself some headaches by choosing subjects and creating designs that work with the medium.
Studio Chat 2023.11.03 — How Do I Find Time to Paint?
My experience and thoughts about how to find time to paint.
How to Revive Dried-Up Watercolor Paint
How to revive those rock-hard tubes or the crumbly paint in that palette you haven’t used in a while.
Intuitive Painting—Building in a Starting Structure
Starting with a blank sheet of paper and just doing whatever “feels right” is way too little structure for most of us. This video gives you a step-by-step starting structure that you can improvise on top of to create a dragonfly of your own style.
Intuitive Painting, part 2—Managing the Voices in Your Head
It sounds simple to simply keep listening for the little voice of intuition, but which one? Many of us have many internal impulses warring within us. How do you know which to listen to?
Prevent buckling without stretching your paper
Working on paper that is saturated from the back is a method for preventing your paper from buckling while you work that does not involve stretching it.
Sneaking Up on a Painting
Making small adjustments can help you paint more personally meaningful paintings based on photos. (Or, what happened when I tried to execute the plan we created for the boat on the river.)