If you’ve read my blog for any length of time, you know I’m a fan girl for Hahnemühle paper. I started out using Arches and loved it. I couldn’t imagine loving any paper as much as I did Arches. Then I was asked if I would like to try out Hahnemühle paper. I’m so glad…
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Plein Air Painting With Hahnemühle Postcards
Many of you take your watercolors out into the field. By field I mean coffee shops, parks, and other fun places to go and paint. The activity is called Plein Air painting. It makes for such a fun little adventure to go somewhere else other than the four walls of your studio and throw paint…
Adding Extra Colors To Your Custom Schmincke Palette
Extra Colors Suggestions I don’t know if you’ve heard but Wet Paint has a New custom Schmincke palette that is on Pre-Order now. I have talked all about what’s in the palette and what you get HERE but I thought I’d talk about extra colors you may want to add to that palette. The tin…
Playing with my “Juicy” Trio
I’m working with my Da Vinci “Juicy” Trio again today, using both Hahnemühle Quattro Skizzie paper and my Leda Sketchbook. I wanted to show that you don’t have to work like I do, this paint works in many ways and on many kinds of paper. This first piece is done on Hahnemühle’s Quattro Skizzie Sketch paper….
Introducing Da Vinci Watercolor Trios!
What happens when you give three artists nine new tubes of paint, tell them to choose three and get creative? Well, you get a very cool project. Charlie O’Shields, World Watercolor Month and Doodlewash.com creator, paired up with Da Vinci (website) to do a unique project called “3 Colors, 3 Artists”. Charlie asked me and…
Da Vinci 8ml Tubes Coming Soon
I have some cool news for those of you interested in Da Vinci’s Spectacular watercolor paint. They are coming out with NEW 8ml tubes soon and I’ll be talking about them in the near future. This is really great news for those of you who want to try out their paints. It allows you to…
ADEM – Day Two
I only got a few things inked out today. They await paint but you gotta admit that they look like they’ll turn out to be fun projects. I’m looking forward to giving character to every one of my watercolor paint tubes! And Ohhh, ice-cream. It makes me wish for summer again. The ice-cream page reminds…
Watercolor: My Palette
My Cotman Palette This post has been a long time coming. I’ve been working on getting all the colors I wanted for the last couple of years. I started out with Cotman Student watercolor but found them frustrating. When I was mixing paint, I found I got frustrated because what I got was muddier than I wanted…