watercolor painting

Basic People Painting Techniques in Watercolor

Since watercolor is a fast-moving medium, as well as often unforgiving, many novice watercolorists avoid painting people. New painters are typically afraid to paint people or portraits, fearing they won't be able to paint all the details or skin tones correctly.

How to Paint Flowers With Watercolors

Painting is a relaxing, rewarding and sometimes profitable hobby. Watercolor painting lends itself to an array of artistic possibilities. Flowers never seem to lose their popularity as a subject matter for paintings, and watercolors are a natural medium for creating beautiful floral elegance.

How to Paint Flowers in Oil

Paint palettes are easily made by using a Styrofoam plate, a sheet of freezer paper (wax side up) or even a glass plate. If you have an old cookie sheet, that will also do for mixing your colors. Mixed colors allow for ease when painting.

Watercolor Painting Techniques

Watercolor offers a wide range of creativity, making it an art medium of wide diversity. Because watercolor involves water, the process goes quickly and is one of the most free forms of painting. Unlike acrylics and oils, it's not as easy to cover up mistakes as many watercolor pigments are transparent and staining.

Watercolor Paint Stain Removal

Both children and adults enjoy painting with watercolors. This paint looks beautiful whether used on canvas by a trained artist or stroked onto white paper by little hands. When paint gets spilled onto a table or dripped on the floor, though, the result is not so appealing.

How to Use Watercolor Paints

Watercolor paints are convenient and relatively economical. Watercolors, particularly pan watercolors, travel and clean up easily and need only a small container of water. Practice using them and realize their surprising versatility.