5 Tips to Get Past the Ugly Stage in Watercolor Painting
Getting Past Ugly in Your Art Making art often stalls in the Ugly Tunnel. On your pilgrimage to a finished watercolor, there’s a crossing in
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What’s the Difference Between Dark and Light Field Monotype Prints?
What is a Light Field Monotype? Monotypes are a hybrid between painting and printmaking. The name monotype has the root “mono” meaning one. Monotype printmaking
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Tips for Drawing and Painting the Figure in Watercolor
Painting the Figure I’ll just come right out and say it: People are discouragingly hard to draw and paint. You can sketch a landscape or
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How to Save a Failed Watercolor with Pastel – Ferris Wheel Spin
Pastel Over Watercolor The painting above started as a watercolor. I knew it was overcooked at the three-quarters finished point – so I tossed it
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How to Find Your Collectors – Selling Your Art
Artistic Affinities – and How to Sell Your Art I need to tell you a story to explain the importance of finding *your* art collectors….
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Traveling with Watercolors, and a list of inspiring Art Links for you
Summertime Pace of Art-Making I traveled to France to work as crew twice with a wonderful company called WorkshopsinFrance.com. The bank of travel photos and
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5 Printmakers to follow on Instagram, Vol. 2 and a Monotype
Using Other Media on Your Monotypes This monotype ghost print looked a little dubious all by itself (see below), but it had potential. The mark-making
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11 Reasons Beginners should Make Small Art
Painting Small Studies In the chain of Islands off the coast of the town I live in, the coves and anchorages all have names. Some
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Painting Urban Scenes in Watercolor – Queensboro
Upcoming Video Courses My studio is a tangle of audio cables, lights, tripods and video equipment. I’m filming new courses for my online school Belinda
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Watercolor Painting Resources – Links for you
Shades of Gray for your Watercolor Palette Here are some watercolor painting resources to help with color choices, organization and inspiration. Check out this Winsor
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Painting Exercise – Paint a Monochromatic Watercolor with Daniel Smith Lunar Black
Watercolor Painting Exercise I’ve been following Marc Taro Holmes‘ 30×30 project (read his first post about it here). Have you? His close up shots of
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Architectural Watercolors, and Helpful Art Studio Links
Jewel Watercolors from Winsor & Newton With summertime approaching in the US and Europe, painting with watercolors in the garden could be in your future.
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In Remembrance of Charles Reid (1937-2019)
Charles Clark Reid (1937-2019) I was adding a recently completed watercolor to my Facebook page, when I caught this announcement on the Charles Reid Page
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How to Make a Mat Board Collagraph Plate using Carborundum
How to Make a Collagraph using Carborundum This collagraph was build on the back of a piece of mat board. Wanna build one too? (If
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Printmaking Tip – Landscape Color Monotype Prints
Color Landscape Monotype Printmaking Tips Here is a printmaking exercise for you. Make quick, small landscape color monotype prints from a page of Thumbnail Photos
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Monotype Ghost Print – Italian Vacation and Art Links for You
Inspiring Art Links for You Marc Taro Holmes is embarking on a 30×30 challenge that’s a variation on the usual month-long painting commitment. He’s made
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Don’t Take Bad Artist Advise
Impressionable Beginner Artists Some of us like Rules. I’ve mentioned in previous posts (read this one), I suspect my love for printmaking and clanking metal
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Traveling with Watercolors – Best Lightweight Art Supplies
Over the years of posting photos here of work in process at Art Festivals, you’ve asked about the set up I use to paint watercolors
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Adding Watercolor and Colored Pencil to a Dark Field Monotype – San Juan Capistrano Bell
Getting Ready to Make a Monotype This (below) is a 4 x 6 zinc plate, with beveled edges – since I’ll be printing this on
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Monotype: Climb Back In
Monotype Ghost Prints If you’re new here, and unfamiliar with monotypes as a printmaking method, take a look at this post to see process shots.
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Watercolor – Birds on my Counter – and Historic Still Life props
Artists’ Still Life Objects The cast iron birdbath curio in this petite watercolor has been rendered in enough still life paintings and printmaking projects that
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Graphite Drawing: Seven
Good to be Home I’m back from Sierra Madre Artwalk, where crowds were friendly, art was collected, and it was mostly lovely weather (it started
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Watercolor – and Artist Marketing
The Mystery of Art Marketing I read your email questions asking about my enthusiasm for the upcoming course launch of Marketing Impact Academy, and why
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Pastel Drawing – Meandering to the Sea
Experimenting with Pastels In previous posts, I’ve used stick pastels on top of monotypes – inspired by Edgar Degas’ beautiful treatments of dry media over
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Online Marketing and Artists Learning Business Skills
Art Festival Observations I got back late lastnight from the San Diego Artwalk. The California sunshine and festival atmosphere in Little Italy brought all the
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Watercolor – Secret Island Anchorage
Painting Your Neighborhood There is a chain of small islands off the coast of southern California protected as a National Park. Several of the islands
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Watercolor: Rooster Comb, and Plotting the Map for your Creative Journey
Is there a Beginner Artist Map? If you think about basic requirements on the path leading towards how to be an artist, the list is
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Watercolor – Lucy Signals Catwoman, and Trying Harder with your Art
Trying in Art I’ve been thinking about the act of trying. The word means simply: to attempt something for the first time, or to put
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Drypoint from Drafting Film – Kinship
Drypoint from Mylar Several years ago, I read about an unnamed artist making drypoint engravings (sometimes referred to as drypoint etchings) from sheets of drafting
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Art Links for You, and a Watercolor of a Kitchen
Art Links for You Here are some art links for you this week, with hopes that you’ll latch onto something that fires your urge to
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