Technique
Are you struggling with mixing the right skin tone? Are you feeling frustrated because your mixture turns out dirty? Here’s the thing. Figure and portrait can be a pretty tricky subject to paint. However, mixing the right skin tone is not. Today, I’m going to share with you the way I mix the skin tone, and you might be surprised how simple it is.
Read MoreHappy Holiday! This will be the last video I put up for 2019 and I want to make it a good one. I am going to show you how to paint this snow scenery just in time for the holiday. I’m also going to share with you one secret trick that you can use to simplify your photo subject.
Read MoreWater is essential to watercolor. You loosen and dilute the paint by adding water to it. It is also water that makes watercolor transparent. The right paint and water ratio is directly related to the value and the opacity. It can be a bit tricky to get it right at first, but it will eventually become part of your instinct with enough practice and some observation. Unfortunately I can not help you with the practice part, but I can provide you some tips to help you along the way. Obviously, the dryer the mixture, the more intense the color. But there are some other things that can give you an idea how wet is your mixture...
Read MoreAs I did the above painting a few days ago. I was constantly asking myself questions while painting. I admit that's a stressful way to paint. Compares to a portrait which is relatively straight forward, I find myself having the need to plan and make a lot more decisions when painting a city scape like this. And when I said questions, I don't mean the little intuitive questions that I solved unconsciously with my instinct such as: color, value and the order of washes. Those questions I asked myself were more about design, compositions, inclusion or exclusion. I would like to sum them up with one big question:
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