Welcome to our very first Coffee time with artists! What I want to do is to show case some other watercolor artists' work as well as do a small interview with them. There are many great watercolor artists out there, and the ones feature in my blog are the artists whom I want to study from as well. I hope you enjoy this new addition series to my blog as much as I enjoy putting them together. Our guest for this session - Marcos Beccari
Read MoreBehind the painting - painting demo recap
The past Saturday I had the pleasure to do a 90 minutes demo at Daniel Smith Bellevue. It was a quick attempt trying to capture a rainy street scenery. I thought it would be fun to do a recap on that. This painting is not as finish and polished as my other paintings, but the process is the same.
Read MoreSneak peek of my up coming course
As you know I am working on an online course. Many show interest and want to learn more about it. The course will be a series of video lessons. We will be tackling one topic at a time for each lesson. I thought I share with you the list I have so far! Keep in mind that this is still work in progress, but you can already see there are A LOT of things I will be covering with the course:
Yours vs viewer's perspective
in Technique
As 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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