This may sound silly to some who know me, but I regularly forget how to paint. Silly, right? But it’s true. And it has to do with confidence. My confidence gets tested more often than I’d like to admit, but it does happen, especially when I run into a painting project that does not go […]
I recently was chatting with a person who had taken one of my beginner watercolor classes, and she told me that she’s always looking for barns now. We laughed about it, but I was sincerely pleased to hear her say that. Some of the landscape projects we had worked on in her class included barns.
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In the few posts I’ve made on this blog, I’ve been an advocate for plein air painting — which is painting on location, rather than working from reference photos. I think plein air and “from life” work is important because of the advancements I saw in myself and in my work once I started painting
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I fell in love with watercolor the moment my high school art teacher introduced it. Our lesson was to take a pile of cardboard boxes, draw them, and paint them in watercolor, using just one color: brown. This seemingly simple lesson taught me these basic watercolor principles: Depicting values is critical You have to reserve
