Following on from last week’s discussion about artist grade vs student grade watercolour paint, I spent a little time looking through some old sketchbooks and what I discovered was very interesting! There were examples of good use of student grade paint and examples of poor use of artist grade paint. So I thought it might...
CONTINUE READINGI feel very honoured to have been featured in two articles in the fabulous Watercolor Artist Magazine this year. The first one was in the special 25th anniversary issue dated April 2018, and the second on in the current issue October 2018. I had to wait for the postage to Australia so I’m a bit...
CONTINUE READINGI’ve been home from my big trip for six weeks now. Wow! that has gone fast and yet on the other hand it seems like a long time ago since I was in Portugal. I have been so busy with finishing off trip articles and gearing up for SketchingNow Watercolour that I haven’t shared any...
CONTINUE READINGIt’s full-on watercolour for me at the moment, and this includes some testing of different palettes. They are: Testing a few cheap student grade kits. I’m teaching architects again and these are the kits which various people have purchased (mainly under $50 from Eckerseleys) and include the Koh-i-noor discs, Winsor and Newton Cotman kit (which...
CONTINUE READINGFollowing on from my comments earlier in the week, that watercolour painting is much more than simply mixing perfect colour matches… Today, I want to share a little from the theory section of the first lesson in SketchingNow Watercolour. I believe that the more you understand your materials, the more you can use them freely...
CONTINUE READINGAs I’m gearing up to run through my SketchingNow Watercolour course again, I thought it would be good to share something that I mention in the introduction to the first lesson, as I really would love to get other people’s feedback on it. I believe that there is a big difference between using watercolour in...
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