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Watercolor Inspiration from Cairo: Unlocking Creativity with Middle Eastern Mosaic Tiles

By Tamsin / October 30, 2024

If you’ve ever traveled to the Middle East or even just seen photos, you’ve probably noticed the stunning mosaic tiles that adorn everything from fountains to doorways. Here in Cairo, traditional tile designs are everywhere—in homes, shops, and historic buildings—and each tile feels like a small masterpiece. These designs are often complex but beautifully harmonious, […]

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NEW and Coming Soon: Extra-Long Compilation Videos and Ad-Free Videos!

By Tamsin / October 14, 2023

We recently tried out a new format on YouTube – bundles of themed tutorials compiled into a single extra-long video without any interruptions from ‘intros’ and ‘outros’. Our idea was that these videos could keep you company and provide inspiration – whether you watch during a painting session or while you’re cooking, cleaning or crocheting!

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Meeden’s Range of 100% Cotton Paper

By Tamsin / October 10, 2023

Meeden recently launched their long-awaited expanded range of 100% cotton, acid free, 140lb watercolor paper blocks! Following the success of their 10 x 7 inch cold press block, they are now able to offer two additional sizes – 12 x 9 inches and 7 x 5 inches – and two additional surfaces – HOT press

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UPDATE: Diane Antone x Craftamo Brush Set

By Tamsin / October 7, 2023

We’re excited to announce that our custom set of watercolor brushes has finished the development phase! The box design is completed, the brush designs have been tweaked, and the Diane Antone x Craftamo brush sets are starting to be manufactured. We will be releasing the brushes for sale in the middle of November, and for

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Christmas is Coming!

By Tamsin / September 16, 2023

Here’s a great offer this month for members of either Patreon or YouTube at the mid tier or above! We are producing beautiful collections of our Christmas themed sketches for you to download and print out to help with your Christmas projects. So far there are two colouring books – Whimsical Christmas and Traditional Christmas,

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Diane Antone Studio x Meeden Giveaway!

By Tamsin / September 1, 2023

A couple of weeks ago we got in touch with Kai, our contact at Meeden, to see whether we could organise a treat for our viewers, and this month’s giveaway is the result. It’s Meeden’s first giveaway, and it’s our first too – and if it’s successful it will be the first of many! So

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Library of Watercolor Bookmark Tutorials

By Tamsin / May 10, 2023

Why Bookmarks? Does anyone read books any more, asked someone a while back on YouTube comments! The response was dramatic, with many people jumping in to say they thought you could never have too many bookmarks! Yes, a lot of people read books online, on Kindle for example – I have one myself. But it

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Whimsical Rainbow for you to paint

By Tamsin / September 23, 2022

Here’s a pretty, easy wet-in-wet rainbow ideal for all occasions. You can easily adapt it for any circumstances. The great thing about this little painting is that it can be personalised in so very many ways! Change up the embellishments to suit your style or the event and even paint it in non-rainbow colors if

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Loose Watercolor Pansies

By Tamsin / September 22, 2022

We have a lovely collection of pansies in our garden. Nothing spectacular, but they self-seed every year and every year they come back with their lovely colours and cheerful faces! So every year I have to paint them, of course! So here is a tutorial for Pansies for Spring!

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Flowers and Birds with Gold Accents

By Tamsin / September 6, 2022

Today I’m using my Kuretake Gansai Tambi paints to create a richly detailed and stylishly colorful whimsical leaf design to help you practice your watercolor skills. Using a relaxed and enjoyable method to embellish the rich tones of the Kuretake paint with gold accents, you’ll be thrilled with your results and want to do more!

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How to Paint and Draw Sweet Peas

By Tamsin / May 26, 2022

Pretty Sweet Peas are everyone’s favorite, whether you’re a gardener, flower arranger or artist, and as well as being beautiful they have a lovely scent. In fact, in French they are called Pois de Senteur or “scented peas”. So today I’ve picked three colors – Cobalt Blue, Permanent Rose and Sap Green, along with my

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Three Whimsical Hens and a Surprise

By Tamsin / May 24, 2022

If you’ve always hesitated over painting chickens, why not give these super-easy hens a whirl? Starting with nothing more than a watermelon slice shape, you can add the details that make the chicken a hen. When you read a book or watch a video on beginning watercolor the advice given is often “do NOT use

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Embellished Butterflies – Never Give Up!

By Tamsin / May 17, 2022

Today I’m painting a little flock of butterflies with a romantic mood, using my set of six granulating Primatek colors, and the set of six QOR Introductory Colors as well. I am painting wet in wet on a 100% cellulose paper, Etival by Clairefontaine, and I am using Sennelier Walnut ink with a dip pen

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Whimsical Watercolor Birds

By Tamsin / May 14, 2022

Today I’m painting three whimsical birds with a vintage feel, using a few colors selected from two sets of Daniel Smith watercolor tubes – the set of six granulating Primatek colors, and the set of six Jean Haines All That Shimmers iridescent colors. I am painting wet in wet on a 100% cellulose paper, Etival

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Can’t Sleep? Paint my Sheep!!!

By Tamsin / May 14, 2022

This is the perfect painting project for a sleepless night – a quick, easy and stress-free way of painting a sheep! You only need three colors for this painting, plus some iridescent paint or a gold pen to add a bit of embellishment if you’d like to. It’s a simple design of a stylised sheep,

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Capturing Movement and Light with Watercolor

By Tamsin / May 10, 2022

Today we are going to try to use granulating colors in a limited palette along with a little bit of ink and iridescence to capture the essentials of some pretty dragonflies. This is a very simplified way to paint these complex creatures. For the purposes of this exercise, I have deconstructed the insects into segments

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Three Cute Cats for a Cool Card

By Tamsin / May 6, 2022

Today’s project is a two-in-one. We’re going to practice our wet-in-wet technique, and at the same time create a cute greetings card we can use for anyone and for any occasion. It’s a simple design of three stylised cats, and I’m using the lovely A. Gallo paints to create this, on a piece of Arches

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Embrace the colors of Italy with this easy watercolor poppy field

By Tamsin / May 3, 2022

Today we are off to Italy to enjoy the scenery and do some landscape painting of an easy watercolor poppy field! We all want to succeed with our landscapes and to do so you really do need a good quality paper, and there is nothing better than Arches 140lb cold press fine grain paper from

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