Easy DIY “Low-Stress” Watercolor Sketchbooks, Part 1

Sketching is less stressful when your sketchbook doesn’t feel so expensive and intimidating. Here are some simple DIY watercolor sketchbooks you can make with the watercolor paper you usually paint on. Fast, easy and no bookbinding skills required!

Two are demonstrated in this video; the next video will demonstrate two more. (You can find Part 2 here.)

Oops! When I mentioned coating the covers with cold wax medium, I accidentally said “Golden” when I really meant GAMBLIN Cold Wax Medium, as an alternative to Dorland’s.

Be a (Mindful) Tourist in Your Own Town

A great way to practice mindfulness and open your eyes to the world you live in every day is to play “tourist” in your own town. Often artists keep sketchbooks not so much to accumulate sketches as to provide a way to focus their attention on the overlooked interest and beauty in their everyday lives….

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How to Revive Dried-Up Watercolor Paint

How to revive those rock-hard tubes or the crumbly paint in that palette you haven’t used in a while.

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Better Landscape Greens

The weather is beautiful here. It’s the time of year when a lot of us are feeling that pull to take our paints and sketchbooks outside. It’s also the time of year that a lot of people struggle with GREEN! Do the greens in your landscapes look flat and unnatural? The likely culprit is a…

Color and Color Mixing | Supplies and Materials

My palette on the videos

Info on the long, narrow palette in some of my videos. Pros and cons and some other palette options.

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Live Demo 13 Sep 2020—Choosing Brushes for Watercolor

Which brushes do you really need? What sizes? Synthetic or natural bristles? Is Kolinsky sable really worth the expense? I’ll answer questions like these, demonstrate different types of brushes and explain pros and cons, and share which brushes are my “go-to” brushes now and why I chose them.

Supplies and Materials | Tips & Hacks

Painting Tips—Easy Acrylic Clean-up (plus some tips for watercolorists, too!)

One of the joys of watercolor is the ease of cleanup. In fact, you don’t really have to clean up at all, if you don’t feel like it. Nothing terrible happens if you just wipe off your brush, put it down and walk away. Well, mostly—do you know the right way to put down a watercolor…

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