Tag: Watercolor paper
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Quick and Easy – Watercolour Lightning
Let’s take the technique we learned in last week’s tutorial, Quick and Easy – Watercolour Galaxy, a step further. Lightning! For this tutorial, I used: I prepared the cloudy background using last week’s tutorial and a monochrome palette of greys and black, but the colour palette still doesn’t matter—feel free to use whatever shades speak…
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Quick and Easy – Watercolour Galaxy
My go-to things to paint have always included forests and galaxies. Not only are these subject matters welcoming to newbies, but you really can’t make any mistakes in painting them. With the holiday season looming, this is the perfect time to break out the craft supplies and make meaningful gifts for loved ones. For this…
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4 Weeks, 4 Paintings – Negative Space
Welcome to another instalment in the 4 Weeks, 4 Paintings mini-series! Today, we’ll learn more about using negative space in our paintings by building on the foundation of layering. As I mentioned in the Layered Foliage tutorial, we must often paint the lightest shades first when working with watercolours, then build the pigment layer by…
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4 Weeks, 4 Paintings – Layered Foliage
It’s officially summer vacation here in my corner of the world, and it’s time to break out the art supplies. I’ve lined up four beginner-friendly art projects that everyone in the family will enjoy while also teaching those basic painting techniques every artist needs at their foundation. This week, we’ll learn about painting in layers…
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How to Stretch Watercolour Paper
I’ve been meaning to go back to basics for some of my ‘how to’ posts, but then the low working memory aspect of ADHD struck and I forgot. 😅 There’s no time like the present, right? Today, I’ll show you two easy ways to stretch watercolour paper. But first, what does it mean to ‘stretch’…
Yolandie Horak 