One of the biggest challenges I have when teaching watercolor is convincing students to follow the KISS principle: Keep It Simple, Silly. You don’t need 30 colors, expensive brushes, or three days to make a successful watercolor painting. Some of the best exercises use just a couple of colors and a few layers of paint….
How to Paint Snow Without White Paint One of my favorite demonstrations for beginning watercolor students is a snowy landscape. Why snow? Because the watercolor paper is the snow. Half the painting is already finished before you even pick up a brush. Seriously. The biggest challenge for most beginners is learning that watercolor often works…
A Simple Watercolor Landscape: Learning with a Limited Palette and Salt Beginning watercolor can feel slightly intimidating. Water goes where it wants, colors mingle when you did not invite them, and somehow everything looks worse right before it looks better. That is perfectly normal. One of the easiest ways to learn watercolor is by painting…
