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  • Step by Step Watercolor Painting By Alistair Butt

    Step by Step Watercolor

    By Alistair Butt

    A drawing of the subject was produced on pre-stretched Bockingford 250lb watercolour/watercolor paper. Before any painting is started all the white areas of the painting are masked, in this case all the swans (I used colourless masking fluid from Winsor & Newton)....

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    Painting in Watercolor: Alyssa's Portrait

    Lachlan Donald

    By Margaret Crowley-Kiggins, FWS

    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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  • Watercolor Demonstration - Third and Santa Fe

    Lachlan Donald

    By Ronnie Cramer

    For this demonstration, I decided to paint a tavern located on Santa Fe Drive in Denver. The last time I passed by, the late-day sun was casting some interesting shadows on the building so I snapped this picture. It's a low-resolution digital photo shot with an inexpensive Largan Chameleon camera. The Chameleon is very small and therefore quite handy to carry around all the time.

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