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Featured Watercolor Painting Videos
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The Many Styles of Cheng-Khee Chee - 6 Volume Set
Cheng-Khee Chee is a master of painting & design and the synthesis of Eastern and Western philosophies and styles that has stretched the boundaries of watercolor media. In the six-part watercolor instruction video set, you will learn watercolor methods and techniques as well as vision-expanding design principles that will transform your painting.
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DVD - Watercolor - Painting In The Flow of Watercolor by Ann Pember
Learn from a master how to create the atmosphere you want for your watercolor paintings. Watch author, artist, and teacher Ann Pember demonstrate her dynamic painting process as she brings a mountain stream to life. Make your own watercolor paintings come alive in this and its companion watercolor instruction video Vibrant Orchid.
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Featured Watercolor Lessons
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How to Paint Darks and Shadows in Watercolor by Mara Mattia
Painting darks and shadows in watercolor is really easy. It just takes practice. I’ll start today with drawing a figure of a woman from my imagination (Don’t worry about this part because I’ll teach the basics of drawing people in another lesson). You will need watercolor paint, paint brushes, paper plate (or watercolor palette), big mouth containers of water, paper towels or rags, #2 pencil, a soft pencil (#4, 5, or 6), eraser, Hair blower (optional), and the color wheel you made from my previous lesson.
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Watercolor Brushwork Lesson
I am an artist and teacher who primarily works in watercolor. I have been painting for over 25 years, and teaching for five. I believe that the goal of art should be a creative interpretation of the world around us and not the perfect rendering of what we see. I also strongly hold that art is a process not just a product. We should spend more time involved in the making and experiencing our art and less time worrying about the successful marketing of the piece we are working on. Good art is the result of hard work and dedication, but it only happens when the artists finds their own story to tell.
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How To Paint a Rose in Watercolor Step By Step
The Star of this painting and Demonstration will be the Rose painting “Open Arms”. It is a beautiful climbing rose, which I bought new this year for my garden and I was lucky to see a lot of blooms. I love the colours in this rose and I am looking forward to paint this rose. Since I need time for doing a rose painting, I cannot paint from life, no rose would live such a long time.....
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Featured Watercolor Tips & Articles
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Introduction To Watercolor Painting Techniques
This article will provide you with a general understanding of some of the more basic watercolor painting techniques.
Sealing and Varnishing Watercolor Paintings Done on Canvas
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You have two choices when you paint in watercolors on an alternate support such as clayboard or watercolor canvas: you can frame behind glass as with a traditional watercolor, taking the same precautions that the painting itself does not come into direct contact with the glass and that there is a space between the artwork and the glass or you can seal your work and frame as an oil or acrylic painting...
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Free Online Books
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Masters Of Watercolor Painting
The earliest form of painting was with colours ground in water. Egyptian artists three thousand years B.C. used this method, and various mediums, such as wax and mastic, were added as a fixative. It was what is now known as tempera painting. The Greeks acquired their knowledge of the art from the Egyptians, and later the Romans dispersed it throughout Europe.