Watercolor Painting Instruction
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Painting in Watercolor Tutorial: Alyssa's Portrait
Many artists are intimidated by faces. In this demonstration, using an accurate light pencil drawing as a guide and the original photograph as reference, I will show how to paint a portrait of Alyssa. I used three brushes: Winsor Newton Series 7 sizes 5, 7, and 10 rounds.
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Magical Sparkling Interference Paints
A most exciting innovation of watercolor paints are the sparkling, absolutely lightfast and tarnish free interference colors including the silver and gold. They have to be viewed at an angle for the sparkle to show. Viewed straight on, they produce a slightly muted effect.
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HOW TO PAINT "BACKWARD"
If you’re after rich, dripping darks, pure color and brilliant lights, then you might consider trying this dark-to-light approach to watercolor. This system calls for painting the darkest darks first, sliding into the middle values, and saving the lights as stark white paper. In addition, there’s no need to premix paints. Just lay in pure , intense colors and let them mix on the paper.
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Learn how to paint katydid with Chinese brush on rice paper.
Chinese people believe that when a person dies, their soul will attach to these insects. This belief is strongly held and it is forbidden to kill any living insect so that the soul of the departed person may be protected.
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Learn the tips & tricks to paint a delicate Orchid on rice paper- watercolor painting tutorial.
To paint a Chinese orchid, start with the flower part of the plant: dip the whole bristle of your brush into light green and then dip just the tip into alizarin crimson...