Postcard Paint- (and Plan-)Along: Coast Sunflowers

Tips for planning a manageable painting/postcard and coping with a complex subject when sketching on location. We’ll use some of the tips from the last video on Avoiding Pencil Lines in Your Watercolors.

Colors used:

M. Graham azo yellow
QoR quinacridone gold
QoR quinacridone deep gold
M. Graham ultramarine blue

Brushes: Pentel Aquash water brush (medium), Princeton SNAP golden taklon round size 12, Yarka squirrel quill (size unknown, may no longer be available), a substitute at a reasonable price is the Princeton Neptune quill size 6

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Technical How-to | Tips & Hacks

Simple Ways To Show Your Worktable in Zoom

Are you wondering how I can see your work and give you feedback in Zoom? I’ve been doing watercolor coaching via Zoom for almost two years now—I’ve got a system! Here’s a short video to show you how it works.

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…

Planning Your Own Watercolors

Working in Drafts to Paint the Lighthouse

Learn a more free form approach to planning as we complete the lighthouse painting we designed in the latest series of videos.

Finding Your Style | Planning Your Own Watercolors

Planning a watercolor, part 1: Why I stopped doing thumbnails, value studies and color studies

Why I stopped doing traditional thumbnails, value studies and color studies to plan my watercolors.

Technical How-to | Tips & Hacks

How (and When) to Stretch Your Watercolor Paper

once you start painting quarter-sheet or larger, or getting the paper really saturated, stretching your paper makes your life sooooo much easier! This video shows my preferred method, stretching on the same stretcher bars used for canvas, and an alternate method for those who have difficulty operating a staple gun.

Postcard Paint-Alongs

Hummingbird Brush Drawing

Paint a hummingbird using basic brushmarks.

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