Painting Portraits in Watercolor Painting portraits in watercolor is ambitious. Figurative watercolors are some of my favorite subjects to paint, but they’re never easy (for
Traveling with Watercolors Have you assembled a watercolor painting travel kit to take with you, outside your usual painting space? Here are some tips to
Still Life Watercolor Ideas, and the Grid System Several times a year, I set up still life vignettes to photograph and use as reference material
How to Print a Monotype without a Press Monotype printmaking is the “painterly print” option. This printmaking process is accessible to everyone, and it doesn’t
Monotype Print Still Life – adding Colored Pencil to your Art I spent a foggy afternoon transferring printmaking inks from leaky containers to new ones,
Making an Intaglio Drypoint Print from Recycled Paper Cartons While walking a freshly emptied carton of frozen Mango & Cream bars to the recycling bin,
Watercolor Still Life Painting Subjects from Your Own Things Pretend you’ve been given a watercolor painting assignment to paint two small still life arrangements. For
Make a Monotype from Things Around the House This was a quick experiment to see if I could pull a monotype print – without a
Can You add Watercolor to Collagraph Prints? Yes, you can, as long as the ink you used to print your collagraph dries permanent, and the
Acrylic Gloss Varnish Sealer on Mat Board Collagraphs When you make a collagraph plate from mat board (also known as mount board), the front, back,
Figure Composition in Watercolor This is a figure study for a watercolor of my friend Aimee. I loved the composition the moment I saw it.
Make a Collagraph Print from Mat Board Have you made a collagraph print from mat board, and printed it in the a la toupee method,
Printmakers to Admire I found Toronto artist Margaret Rankin’s work online in about 2005. Her subjects demonstrate her sharp eye and sure hands. She is
Painting a Still Life in Watercolors If you enjoy the accessibility of painting still life in watercolors, but struggle with deciding what to paint, this
Consider Brevity – Short Painting Sessions After Dinner I’m much obliged this week so this is brief; I have a watercolor sketch, a few great
Where Do Good Art Ideas Come From? Steven Johnson illustrates the sequence leading to the birth of a Good Idea in the video below. He
Painting an Urban Watercolor on Clear Gesso In a previous post, I mentioned an experiment with an urban building facade, painted in watercolor on clear
Powdered Graphite and Water Soluble Graphite for Drawing and Painting Here are some experiments with Powdered Graphite and Water Soluble Graphite used in painting and
Have You Tried Powdered Graphite under Watercolors? As an experiment, I used powdered graphite to lay out shapes and a loose value study from a
Spontaneous Monotype Still Life Print I’m in the midst of filming, editing, and narrating a video class on monotype printmaking. It’s complex work, and not
Preserve the Sizing in Fine Art Paper Have you ever soaked printmaking paper and discovered that the sizing in the paper flew the coop? Absent
5 Article Roundup for Beginner Artists Beginning an art adventure that requires some skill-building is a lot easier with instruction. Practical, step by step painting
Colored Pencils Enhance Monotype Prints Have you ever added colored pencils to refine parts of your monotype prints? (If you’ve never made a monotype, here
Miniature Linocut Inspired by Frida Kahlo This linocut is smaller than a business card, but it was a spontaneous and fun session of carving a
German Expressionist Woodcut Prints I purchased Shane Weller’s book (a Dover Publication – you can check out here) on German Expressionist Woodcuts a few decades
Print a Collagraph Using a la Poupee for Full Color This is a mat board collagraph (also known as press board or mont board), printed
Making Art from Stuff at Home After printing drypoint etchings from recycled plastic food containers (see drypoints from plastic in this series), I’m experimenting with
How Unremarkable White Tiles in a Kitchen Spawned Two Decades of Watercolor Paintings A couple of decades ago, I walked into the kitchen of a
Making a Reduction Linocut without a Press As a perpetually Distracted Person, making a reduction linocut was always a wish, but it got suppressed by
Printing a Mat Board Collagraph in the Intaglio Style Collagraph printmaking can arise from something as simple as finding a small, recyclable scrap of mat
