I’m pleased to share with you that I have officially been awarded NWS Signature Status; a recognized master artist of the National Watercolor Society. Thank you for all your support! August 11, 2022 How to Paint Colorful Skies with Watercolors ...
I have this beach sunset image open in PaintShop Pro.To preserve the original Background layer, I’ll right click and choose Duplicate. The plugin can be found in Effects / Plugins / Vision FX 2 – Vision FX 2. To generate some watercolor results, I entered a prompt about a watercolor...
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Many artists, including myself, want our paintings to look effortless as if our paint flowed onto the canvas without hesitation. This is often referred to as a “painterly” style. Artists like Joaquín Sorolla and Richard Schmid first come to mind when I think of a painterly style. In this...
I’ve recently embarked on a project to paint in acrylics a series of seascapes – crashing waves on the beach, stormy skies, that sort of thing. I’m finding that I’m having trouble making the white colours really ‘pop’. I’m using Titanium white but find that when I add it to...
When you start to learn how to paint in acrylics, it is best to start. It is better to have 5 colours you use consistently and learn to understand their individual properties and behaviours rather than keep on hoping a new premixed exotically named colour will save the day!
Once the engraving was done, the copper plate could produce many prints of black ink on white paper. Those, of course, needed to be hand-colored by teams of colorists using watercolor paint. The process was laborious but this art-reproduction technology allowed hundreds of people in the earl...
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(Spider-Gwen’s dimension is like a watercolor painting brought to mutating life; Spider-Man India hails from “Mumbattan” that’s a swirl of shades of yellows and greens.) The only knock against Across the Spider-Verse? It’s the first part of a two-part story, and it does feel ...
They take color, too. So while they work best set to white, you can mix in a few dark gray clouds for a stormier scene, or some orange-tinted ones to work with your sunset shots. 6.GIMP Flying Birds Brushes Another way to make your skies more interesting is to place a few birds ...