Water 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 More 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 More 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 More 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:
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