Three Basic Textures For Watercolor

Three Basic Textures For Watercolor

Three Basic Textures In Watercolor This tutorial shows how to create each of the three basic textures. Using them well provides a visual richness in your paintings. There are only three textures that can be created with paint and a brush: hard, rough and soft. ...
Paint A Landscape With Fall Foliage In Watercolor

Paint A Landscape With Fall Foliage In Watercolor

Paint A Fall Landscape In Watercolor Already have a Subscription or Membership? LOGIN HERE There are few things as breathtaking as the light on golden leaves and foliage in autumn.  This lesson shows how to get the effect in a watercolor painting using both harmonies...
Color Contrasts To Brighten Lights

Color Contrasts To Brighten Lights

Brighten Any Color With Contrast The right kind of contrast works best Which of the three yellow squares looks brightest? This short tutorial is an exercise in the practical use of color theory that shows the way to increase the apparent brightness of any color.  What...
Paint A Backlit Subject

Paint A Backlit Subject

Paint A Backlit Subject In Watercolor Use this simple formula and get darks without ‘mud’ This lesson covers two important watercolor painting ideas : painting backlit subjects and creating darks without creating mud. The ideas are related.  Backlight...
Summer River Scene Watercolor Painting Lesson

Summer River Scene Watercolor Painting Lesson

LOGIN with your ESSENTIALS or MASTERY Membership To Access This Lesson Paint A Summer Landscape And River WHAT YOU’LL LEARN How to paint the deep greens of summer Use a Value Composition to develop a sense of light Develop the painting fast by laying in value areas...