Did you know you could dissolve coloured pencil pigment thus making your art piece a painting and not a drawing? Coloured pencil is such a versatile medium: ease of use, portability and cleanup, it doesn’t get much easier than painting with coloured pencils. In this course I will take beginners and more experienced artists step-by-step…
Watercolour paints come in hundreds of colours, various levels of quality, and have certain attributes such as transparency versus opaqueness and staining versus non-staining. They also come in tubes, pans, sticks, and even markers. This makes it hard for the beginner to determine what to buy. Suggested Colours for Beginners A cool and warm version…
Last week my tip was for those already painting in watercolours so I thought I’d take a step back and start at the beginning. This tip is about the quality of your substrate as it is important to use the best product you can afford. Paper The paper needs to be absorbent and able to…
Painting in watercolour has a bad rap. You’ll hear comments such as “you can’t control watercolour”, “the finished painting is pale and washed out looking”, “modern painters find it an old-fashioned medium”, and “you have to frame with mat and under glass”. Actually, none of these comments are true. Let’s take a look at some…