Postcard Paint- (and Plan-)Along: Coast Sunflowers
Tips for planning a manageable painting/postcard and coping with a complex subject when sketching on location.
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Avoiding Pencil Lines in Your Watercolors
Some alternative ways to make planning marks to avoid visible pencil lines in the finished painting.
What’s That Pen You Use for Drawing?
A lot of people have been asking about what pen I use for drawing in my journals. In this post, I describe the bottled waterproof ink and pen(s) I use in my Studio Journal, and a couple of alternative options if you prefer cartridges over bottled ink.
Watercolor Jumpstart
Watercolor Jumpstart is a self-guided beginner watercolor course. Learn fundamental watercolor skills as you do six fun and easy projects. This free course is offered as community service. There is no instructor support provided with this course. You will find the course Table of Contents at the bottom of each lesson. You are free to…
Project 2 Overview and Handouts
Project 2 Overview In this project, you’ll learn the many different techniques for painting clouds of all sorts, plus a bit about how to use clouds to enhance the design of your painting. We’ll cover: Project 2 Templates and Handouts Course Content Course Home Page Preliminaries Project 1 — Crescent Moon in a Pre-Dawn Sky…
Project 1 Overview and Handouts
Project 1 Overview In this project, you’ll learn the fundamental skills we’ll use throughout the course: Project 1 Handouts and Templates Course Content Course Home Page Preliminaries Project 1 — Crescent Moon in a Pre-Dawn Sky Project 2 — Dramatic Clouds at the Beach
Recommended Supplies and Materials
Where Can I Buy That? Please—Google it! Retailers change their websites all the time; I can’t keep up.There is no need to buy all of this. I’m listing what I use in the videos so I don’t have to answer the same questions over and over. If you have a similar item or different brand,…
How to Use This Course
Since people will come to this course with a wide variety of backgrounds, each project has Please watch the preliminary and supplemental videos to learn the techniques before attempting the project video! The project videos DO NOT INCLUDE explanations of the skills and techniques taught in the preliminary and supplemental lessons. There is far too…
How to Print Photos and Templates Poster Size (using Adobe Acrobat Reader)
You can use letter-size paper and the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software (you probably already have it—it’s what most computers use to open PDFs) to print a photo or template “poster-size”. It all matches up with small overlaps to be easily taped together into a large image for transferring to your watercolor paper. Course Content…
How to Mix Watercolor Washes for Larger Areas
Course Content Course Home Page Preliminaries Project 1 — Crescent Moon in a Pre-Dawn Sky Project 2 — Dramatic Clouds at the Beach
How to Resize Rectangles Proportionally- no calculating!
Course Content Course Home Page Preliminaries Project 1 — Crescent Moon in a Pre-Dawn Sky Project 2 — Dramatic Clouds at the Beach
A Less Messy Way to Spatter Paint (or Masking Fluid)
Course Content Course Home Page Preliminaries Project 1 — Crescent Moon in a Pre-Dawn Sky Project 2 — Dramatic Clouds at the Beach