When you pause to assess a painting in progress, do you ask yourself some version of “What’s wrong with it?” or “What do I need to fix?” That can be a recipe for overworking paintings. Here’s are some better questions to ask yourself, and some tips for helping your an unsatisfying painting undergo a creative metamorphosis.
Why I stopped doing traditional thumbnails, value studies and color studies to plan my watercolors.
If you want to paint more intuitively, how do you decide how to begin a painting, or what to do next? How do you know when you’re done? Here are a couple of activities to start exploring pieces of a system or structure to guide creative choices when you’re painting intuitively.
Three ways to use masking fluid (liquid frisket) to mask a crescent moon in a watercolor painting.
This article is the fifth in a series about creating paintings with more emotion, power and personal meaning. Here are links to the first four: Is My Painting Done? Are You a “Photocopier”? There’s a Better Way The Lazy Way to Build Painting Confidence Painless Watercolor Planning, Part 1: Exploratory Drawing I’ve broken up my…
WAIT! Have you done part 1? Important: Please do the activity described in “Just-So” Stories, part 1 before reading this post! Please take as much time as you need for part 1. You may want to spend more than one journaling session working on it, to give yourself plenty to work with in part 2….
Save yourself some headaches by choosing subjects and creating designs that work with the medium.
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