Hummingbird Brush Drawing
Paint a hummingbird using basic brushmarks.
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A watercolor postcard of lighted Christmas trees at night on a snowy slope.
Backlit Clouds Variations
Simple techniques for suggesting skies with backlit clouds. Then some ideas for adding foreground elements to your sky studies to make finished postcards. Includes suggestions for protecting postcards in the mail.
41 min.
Holiday Postcard Plan-Along
One approach to designing and planning a painting of your own, using a holiday postcard as an example. Come plan along with me!
Dragonfly Brush Drawing
Paint a dragonfly using basic brush marks.
Bowl and Lemons Project
A simple still life of a glass bowl and lemons in watercolor. In this project you’ll practice laying a multi-colored wash connecting several “objects” into one large shape, and then defining the individual objects with smaller washes along their shared edges.
Sketching with Watersoluble Line
Super-simple and minimal supplies: a watersoluble pen, a wet brush and a postcard or sketchbook. This is basically a form of line-and-wash, but doesn’t seem to be taught or discussed much. My favorite super-lightweight sketching strategy.
24 min.