Sketching Seeds and Grasses
Seeds and their cases and pods are hugely varied and fascinating subjects to draw and paint.
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Fun with Flowers
Looking for something really quick and easy for you to paint today, I created these simple, easy and colorful flowers.
Capturing a Hare in Watercolor
Here’s my latest video tutorial on YouTube showing you how to paint a loose, colorful hare, sure to please all animal lovers. You can download the sketch free of charge from here.
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Cute and Easy Little Watercolor Birds
We all love birds and painting them brings great pleasure, but sometimes they seem so difficult to capture the essence of and end up heavy and dull. Here’s a way to paint cute and easy little watercolor birds as light and airy as they really are, with minimum time and fuss. Watch this video and
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Creative Doodling Butterflies and Flowers with Glass Pen, Ink & Wash – Relaxed Tutorial for Everyone
You never know what will happen when you pick up a pen or a brush! Follow my art process today as I look for a project, sketch and paint a concept and finally ink and wash with surprising results! Let’s go!
Super Fun Birds on a Bird Table – Easy Stepwise Tutorial for Everyone – Watercolor, Glass Pen & Ink
Feeding frenzy continues at the birdtables as autumn approaches and the birds try to build up their fat reserves for the winter! All sorts flock around the sunflower seeds and peanuts, creating a delightful picture for us to recreate together. Easy for all, challenging for some of us who want to go for more detail.
Thinking about Inking
Summer is drawing to a close and as the Harvest Moon begins to rise in the sky our thoughts turn to harvests of all kinds, seeds as well as fruits. Few natural subjects offer more inspiration to the artist than a hedge or field full of plants which, flowering season over, are turning to the
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Jean Haines Watercolors
Dick Blick have got a special price for the Jean Haines All that Shimmers iridescent watercolor set right now – click above to purchase a set that will lift your watercolors into the sublime! Only $36 for six tubes! I’ll be trying them out in a video soon!
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Painting Dragonflies: Dragonfly Lore for Artists
People love dragonflies. They love to paint them, wear clothing with them printed on, hang them in their homes as inspirational art or simply watch them flying around. Why is this so? Well, to quote another writer on the internet “In almost every part of the world, the Dragonfly symbolizes change, transformation, adaptability, and self-realization.”1
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Ten Minute Watercolors
It’s too hot to paint for long! July and August are tough in the northern hemisphere when the heat starts rising. But for dedicated students who want to make progress, daily splashes in your watercolors are essential. So we’ve put together half a dozen short and sweet video tutorials that you can do in ten
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How to paint Hens and wildflowers – easy beginners botanical art tutorial in watercolour
Today I’m painting two of my favourite hens from the garden. Mrs Grey and Mrs White are a pair of characters who have to be different. Here they are, having a chat under a tree, maybe discussing how many eggs they have laid today. I show you the sketch and how to paint the hens
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How to Paint Watercolor Birds and Elderflowers – Paint the Natural World for Beginners Tutorial
Learn how to use a natural sponge and watercolour pencils to create the illusion of foaming Elderflowers and add three cute birds to make an idyllic natural world scene.
Sketchbook Garden: Lavender Flowers and Honey Bees – How To Draw and Paint with Watercolor and Pencils
Spend a quiet moment in the garden and studio with me and a sketchbook. We’ll start with observation of the plant in its environment, then we’ll draw and paint some lavender flowers together, using several different methods. Finally we’ll use spatter and loose watercolour techniques to complete a beautiful spray of Lavender, complete with two
How to Paint a Bumblebee in Gouache on Black Watercolor Paper
To paint this lovely bee you need two shades of yellow gouache (opaque watercolor) plus black and white gouache, some silver iridescent medium, plus a pencil and silver gel pen. Let’s get buzzy!
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How to Paint a Foxglove Flower – Paint the Natural World for Beginners
Take a stroll through Woodland Grove with me! Let’s draw and paint a foxglove flower together, using the ones that grow in my garden as a model.
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Sunflower
I started an exploration of black watercolour paper and gouache today. You can buy really nice black paper by Stonehenge from Jackson’s Art.
Seahorse in Shades of Blue
Inspired by yesterday’s dabbling in iridescent medium from Winsor and Newton I decided today to jump into blue and paint a Seahorse. There’s something to be learnt from painting in one colour only in a painting. This seahorse is bathed in a loose wet in wet mixture of cerulean, cobalt, caribbean and turquoise blues which
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Laburnum Yellow Waterfall
Yellow flowers are the happiest flowers. Yellow is such a sunny colour, bringing a lift to your mood on a dull day. Who doesn’t love the happy daffodil, the cheerful buttercup and the gorgeous yellow waterfall of the laburnum tree flowers? So today we are painting a small section of a beautiful laburnum tree in
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