Watercolor Tutorials

How to achieve perfect hair and skin textures using watercolor with drybrush - a demonstration by James D. Brantley One of the most difficult things to do when painting portraits in trans ...

Pick up some Blank Watercolor Cards and Create Your Own Holiday Cards! Susie Short has some great & simple tips that make creating cards fun - you'll enjoy making them as much as your friends and family will ...

Follow this project to make Watercolor Ornaments and Gift Tags. Using our template or a shape of your own, cut ornament shapes from cardboard and trace them onto 300lb cold press watercolor. We worked on 5 in wide ...

Butch Krieger Gives a Watercolor Tutorial on Creating Convincing Fleshtones with Natural Earth Pigments from Daniel Smith The great old masters such as Leonardo da Vinci well understood t ...

Granulation of a watercolor paint occurs only with specific pigments. With only a few exceptions, these paints contain one or more inorganic pigments containing metal. The granulation effect increases with the ...

This collage demonstration, “Wired”, mixes wood, decorative paper, old maps, pins and string, creating an unusual collection of materials held together by a watercolor painting. Let your ...

DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Ground can be used on fun wood shapes to transform them for painting! ...

Spread your Artistic talent to more surfaces through the magic of DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Ground! These projects are a great way to have fun with your pigments and dress your pumpkins for the Holidays. Paint our ...

Make your own personalized wine bottle labels with DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Ground and DANIEL SMITH Watercolors! A great gift idea to mark a wedding, anniversary, birthday or any special occasion! ...

DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Ground was developed to simulate, as closely as possible, a cold press watercolor paper surface. Watercolor paper is sized, allowing pigment to remain on top of the surface rather than ...

Gold Gesso is both an acrylic ground and a water based paint that can be used with watercolor, oil and acrylic. Used as a ground, it creates a glow reminiscent of Renaissance-era work. In addition the gesso makes ...

Watercolorist Pat Weaver demonstrates how to paint the 'Colors of Koi' I've always been fascinated by the graceful rhythm of the Koi fish. Their patterns are so varied and the darks are b ...

In this online article by Jan Hart she speak of the following:  In the painting I call “Toucan Fly,” I began as usual by thinking about and planning what I wanted to describe about the toucan and ...

The NEW DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolor Project Book includes 21 unique projects! It has a step-by-step DVD with demonstrations for each project. There are also optional Color Dot Cards that have 54 try-it size ...

Watercolorist Tom Hoffman teaches us what elements to focus on in a painting and which ones to leave out. Painting successfully from life or from photos is largely a process of deciding w ...

Will Jackson explains how Judi Betts, AWS starts planning a painting before she picks up her brush Judi Betts arrived for her sold-out workshop at the Seattle Daniel Smit ...

We all admire young children for their ability to paint and draw despite the often inexpert forms and lines. What attracts us to their artwork? Without doubt it is their unfailingly honest expression. Children ex ...

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Molly Hashimoto creates a Garden Journal using Watercolors with Masking Fluid and Italic Calligraphy When I create studies in my journal of my favorite flowers and plants, I look to artis ...

Molly Hashimoto Creates Ornamental Celtic Knotwork using Gouache. Early illuminated manuscripts from the British Isles contain beautiful examples of ornamental knotwork and zoomorphic cr ...