Springtime Flower Hanging Baskets in Loose Watercolor – EASY semi-abstract Painting Tutorial Hanging Baskets in Loose Watercolor: an easy semi-abstract watercolour flower-studded tutorial using a variety of watercolors, as well as getting started with paint color choice and mixing. Painting flowers is one of the best subjects to start, but why not go for a…
Month: February 2022
Springtime Daffodils and Bumble Bees in Loose Watercolor
Loose watercolor daffodils and bumble bees for beginners: an easy semi-abstract watercolour flower-studded landscape tutorial using a variety of watercolors plus watercolor pencils, as well as getting started with paint color choice and mixing. A good way for beginners to get started with loose watercolor is to play with semi-abstract designs. No painting needs to…
How to Paint Birds | Watercolor for Beginners
A good way for beginners to start with art is to learn how to draw and then paint little birds. They don’t have to be exact replicas of the real thing, and in fact using your imagination to create fantasy birds is one of the most rewarding ways to start your art journey. You can…
Paint a beautiful Sunset Postcard in Watercolor
It’s a lovely idea to share the view from your house or backyard with your friends or relatives who might not be able to get out and about in this post-covid world. Have you had a sunset outside your home so incredible you just HAD to take a photo? Why not personalise that photo as…
Potted Lemon Tree in Watercolor
Bring some sunshine into your day and paint this vibrant yellow potted lemon tree following my detailed demonstration and instructions. I decided to use my Alina Gallo set of paints for this little watercolor painting of a lemon tree, because her lemon colored paint is so vibrant and so reminiscent of real lemons I couldn’t…
Watercolor Geraniums in a Window Box
Here’s a simple, summery Mediterranean windowbox done in 15 minutes using my new set of A. Gallo handmade watercolors. This set is a perfect palette especially suited to the warm hues of the southern climate. Equally at home in the rest of the world, this is a little gift to treasure for anyone who loves…
Italian Landscape with A. Gallo paints
A kind and generous YouTube subscriber and customer kindly sent me a lovely gift of a set of Alina Gallo handmade Italian paints, which I am trying out for the very first time in this painting. What better to test Italian watercolors than a little Italian landscape! This is a distillation of the iconic Tuscan…
Loose Watercolor Anemones
Anemones are a favorite flower for the house and look good tucked into a corner. The same goes for a painting of a bunch of anemones in whatever color you like best, as they come in every shade from white to deep purple. So let’s get painting! In this video I talk about the choice…
Moonlit Snowdrops in Watercolor
Let’s paint some white flowers without using masking fluid today. By using a little opaque white you can make bright and contrasty flowers lit by the light of a full moon to celebrate Imbolc and Candlemas. Materials for Painting the Moonlit Snowdrops in Watercolor For this painting I used the following materials and equipment: I…
Pots of Geraniums in Watercolor Pencil
Today I decided to do a little composition of sketchy geraniums using watercolor pencils. These are traditional Faber-Castell Albrecht Dürer pencils, which are easy and uncomplicated to use. Materials To paint these Pots of Geraniums in Watercolor Pencil – easy loose style – I wanted to do something that would work on ordinary sketch paper,…