From the Diane Antone Studio Blog

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Swatch and Doodle

Using my Kuretake Art Nouveau set I created eight pastel toned rectangles and embellished them with doodles in paint and pastel. This meditative exercise in watercolor and drawing is easy and relaxing to do and will be a good way to spend an hour unchallenged by the need to perform or achieve. Just let’s go with the flow and play …
Swatch and Doodle

Material Choices

Studio contents for watercolor artist
Every studio is different - you could even say unique. While the basic tools for watercolorists are the same the world over, the variety of materials available now has meant that you are unlikely to find two artists with entirely the same paints, paper or brushes. Rather than bore you with a discussion of the same things everyone talks about …

Bouquet Building - how to paint a bunch of flowers!

Over the years I’ve been tending to move away from the traditional floral arrangement and go for more of an all-over bouquet pattern, as if looking at a flowerbed from close up. This is a much easier way to design a painting. But sometimes you want to paint a few flowers for a card or bookmark in the form of …
Bouquet Building - how to paint a bunch of flowers!

Doodling and Mark Marking Intuitive Art

Doodling and Mark Marking Intuitive Art
We all have them, some of us perhaps more often than others! Those days when nothing seems to be quite right. This video is an attempt to overcome that feeling, and I think it’s very important to try to do this, because the alternative is so often a deepening of the stuckness and a reluctance to restart. Better to nip …
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