Planning Your Own Watercolors

Generating and refining a concept for a painting, tools and strategies for design, planning and evaluating work-in-progress.

The “Other How-To”
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The “Other How-To”

Like most people, I did some rapid “pivoting” (otherwise known as “flailing”) during 2020. It’s time for me to get back to the core mission of my teaching: to help you be more successful using watercolor as an artist, that is, to use watercolor to explore your own thoughts, ideas and emotions, record your responses to the world, share your experiences with others, or express something personally meaningful. That means learning to plan your own paintings, but how?

How I Use the Sketchbook Pro App to Plan Paintings or Changes to Paintings
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How I Use the Sketchbook Pro App to Plan Paintings or Changes to Paintings

Sketchbook Pro is a great tool for quickly planning changes to a painting in progress, and it’s free. This video introduces the small set of features I use in my planning process, so you can get started quickly without having to go through a lot of features you don’t need.