Was always reluctant to use watercolour, but the ink on the watercolour looks so bright and festive! Log in to Reply Lindsey Bugbee April 23, 2024 I’m so happy to have changed your view on watercolor! I love adding details and structure to watercolor with ink–it just elevates any ...
Here’s the whole set up in use, taken when I was doing a little painting in my garden last summer. If I have a nice surface like this table to paint on I tend not to put my brushes e.t.c away in my pochade box, as you can see. I didn’t need to use my camera tripod h...
You use the paper’s white to add luminance to your painting, and the white of watercolour paper provides your highlights. If you’re going super watercolour purist, your aim is to try to create a painting without using white paint at all. To get a clean, transparent wash in your waterc...
If your media doesn’t get premixed on a palette – think alcohol markers, colored pencils, pastels – then mix ON the paper. Either apply and blend like shown with pastels, or layer them atop each other in glazes. Note: you can use this for watercolor too – if the color isn’t oli...
Colored pencils can be oil-based or water-based, so knowing how you'd like the flow of color and texture prior to investing in colored pencils may save you time and money. Also, there are tool aides you can use with colored pencils that can blend, erase and more depending on your ...