Watercolour Painting

December 28, 2010

Here’s a nice article about watercolour painting by a great artist.
The first most significant component of watercolour painting is the “water.”
Before you even start a painting, you need to be working to accommodate the properties of “water”. Paper and water do not sit well together. When wet, paper swells and stretches, which manifests as rippling [...]

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Learning To Paint

December 1, 2010

Learning To Paint is not as difficult as many people think. The probem most people have is geting over the mental block that painting is somehow a secret art that requires special skills that you have to be born with. this is complete rubbish despite attempts by some artists to promote this view. Painting is [...]

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Learn to Paint – How to Stretch Watercolor Paper

November 19, 2010

Learn to paint the right way by reading this article. It is very tempting to get right on with the process of creating your next masterpiece but the truth is that it is well worth spending some time stretching your watercolor paper. The problem is that paper of less than 260 lb (356 gsm) needs [...]

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Sketch – The Art of Expressive Drawing

November 18, 2010

A nice article about sketching. Very interesting and full of good tips and advice, well worth a read.
The Concept
A sketch is a quick freehand drawing, which may or may not be called finished work. Mostly, it is made in a two-dimensional plane to record visual data for later use. Being preliminary outlining step, sketches help [...]

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Watercolor Painting – Steps to Develop Your Painting Skills

November 16, 2010

Painting with watercolor is fun but also difficult to master. It’s better to learn the basic skills of water color paintings and then move to the complex ones. With this article, we can have a step by step watercolor painting skills.
Step 1 – In the Watercolor Painting to always start with laying a thin wash [...]

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