Creativity Booster— Try Improv Painting!
Here’s an exercise to help you stimulate your creativity, loosen up or find your own style.
Planning Your Own Watercolors
Generating and refining a concept for a painting, tools and strategies for design, planning and evaluating work-in-progress.
Establishing a Consistent Sketchbook (or Painting) Practice
Tips for establishing a consistent sketchbook (or painting) practice.
Color and Color Mixing | Creative Energy Journaling | Finding Your Style | Planning Your Own Watercolors
Easily Create Symmetrical Circular Designs (January 2023 Art Invitation)
Make your own symmetrical circular designs for mandalas or other circular paintings. All you need are a plate and a piece of office paper! This video shows you how to do it.
Take It to the Limit (Find Your Style Exercise)
An exercise for exploring (and collecting) things you enjoy doing (not just seeing), as a way to expand and explore your personal style.
The Most Important Watercolor How-To
Having trouble finding the time and energy to paint? Try designing some Anti-Rules!
Postcard Paint- (and Plan-)Along: Coast Sunflowers
Tips for planning a manageable painting/postcard and coping with a complex subject when sketching on location.
Avoiding Pencil Lines in Your Watercolors
Some alternative ways to make planning marks to avoid visible pencil lines in the finished painting.
What’s That Pen You Use for Drawing?
A lot of people have been asking about what pen I use for drawing in my journals. In this post, I describe the bottled waterproof ink and pen(s) I use in my Studio Journal, and a couple of alternative options if you prefer cartridges over bottled ink.
Postcard Paint-Along—Dragonfly
A simple dragonfly postcard, suitable for all experience levels.
The Evolution of a Painting — The Moon’s Web
In this video, look over my shoulder and watch as one of my paintings evolves from initial concept sketch to the final version.
Working in Drafts to Paint the Lighthouse
Learn a more free form approach to planning as we complete the lighthouse painting we designed in the latest series of videos.
Deciding How to Reserve or Recover Whites and Lights in Watercolor
Some things to watch out for that make it easier or harder to reserve lights and whites in watercolor.