Color and Color Mixing | Technical How-to

It’s Not All About Hue – Imposters and Chameleons

Color-mixing is often discussed as if the only consideration is getting “the right color”, but watercolor pigments each have their own physical and chemical properties. This video presents an activity to help you develop a more sophisticated understanding of color-mixing. These exercises are designed to help you become better at choosing and mixing pigments to really exploit all aspects of the colors on your palette.

Click here to visit the page for my Second Sunday Live Demo from Aug 2020, “What’s on YOUR Palette?”

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.

Technical How-to | Tips & Hacks

Three Ways to Transfer Drawings to Watercolor Paper

Three methods for transferring a drawing to watercolor paper: using self-made graphite transfer, graphite transfer paper and clear acetate.

Planning Your Own Watercolors | Technical How-to

Planning a Watercolor, Part 3: Making Basic Edits to Your Reference Photos

Making easy, small changes to your reference photo can make your painting more interesting and unique (and often, easier to paint, too!)

A lot of lavender violet, and a bit of orangy-yellow

Color and Color Mixing | Creative Energy Journaling | Finding Your Style | Planning Your Own Watercolors

4 Ways to Use Color to Unleash Your Creativity

Color always gets my creative juices flowing. Here are four ways to use the Color of the Day to unleash your creative spirit—(click the image to read on)

I used a spray bottle to soften and allow the color to run on the right side of the "background". I like how the yellow color of the lemon ran and softened, giving it some atmosphere and bringing the viewer's attention more to the crisper edges in the bowl.

Color and Color Mixing | Finding Your Style | Planning Your Own Watercolors

Go (a Little) Wild!—How to Loosen Up (Just a Bit) in Watercolor

Are you a control freak when you make art? Or does your inner child go wild? Most of us want to make art that combines structure and spontenaity, but that’s not easy! In workshops and classes at all levels, when we go around the room and talk about what we want to get out of…

Two small paintings from the 30-in-30 challenge sitting on my studio table.

Supplies and Materials | Technical How-to

What’s a Cradled Board?

This must be one of the questions I get asked the most often! I used to mat and frame my watercolors. From time to time someone would ask if I could frame them without glass. I knew of some watercolorists who were painting on canvas or boards that were specially prepared to be absorbent enough…

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