As I've begun working on a new
series of watercolour painting projects from Joe Francis Dowden's book Ready To Paint: Venice in Watercolour, I thought it would be pertinent to share a selection of photograph of Venice that I took during my trip there in October 2012...
Because of the additional chalk fillers added to gouache it doesn't have the luminous
quality of watercolour paint but it dries very quickly and that ability to paint light over dark can be a real bonus, as we shall see in this blog post.
It was wonderful to see her in action as she demonstrated her unique style
of watercolour painting in the St Cuthberts Mill demonstration tent, which she packed out — it was standing room only!
Master artist Jean Haines leads you on a journey through paint, showing you how to wipe away your worries with the soothing, gentle
strokes of watercolour paint.
This coloring book is based on my strange birds series
of watercolour paintings made available for you to colour because I want to see what you do with them.
Terry Harrison's no - nonsense teaching style takes the mystery
out of watercolour painting and the clear step - by - step photographs make it easy for readers to reproduce all of the projects.
I also seem to remember Winsor and Newton were selling ex-stock
tubes of watercolour paints at almost one - third of the high street cost!
IVAM is pleased to present the second leg of «Doric», a series of monumental sized paintings that the artist has produced since 2008 until now, and in addition to that a series
of watercolour paintings created in Greece during the 1980s.
The wet - on - wet technique of Matthias Meyer allows him to adapt the
qualities of watercolour painting and to let the strongly thinned oil colour to flow freely on the canvas with the colours flowing into each other, whilst at the same time controlling it purposefully.
In the early 1880s, she travelled to Brussels and Paris where she studied drawing, and fine art painting alongside contemporaries like Walter Osborne and John Lavery, and spent some time in London working under Paul Jacob Naftel, whom she later claimed had given her a profound understanding of the
art of watercolour painting.
I first visited the Patchings Art Festival back in 2007 and remember walking around the entire day as I was overwhelmed with meeting and chatting to
some of my watercolour painting heroes, and there was so much to see and do.
More than 200
of his watercolour paintings were confiscated and have never been rediscovered.
In what is now referred to as the Golden Age
of watercolour painting, artists from the school of English landscape painting raised the status of watercolour painting to a serious and independent artform.