Art Materials • PAPER Saunders Waterford rough 425gsm watercolour paper • WATERCOLOUR Cobalt Blue, Cerulean Blue, Green, Yellow Green, Perylene Green, Green Gold, Opera Pink, Transparent Pyrrole Orange, Translucent Yellow, Magenta and Burnt Sienna, various brands • BRUSHES Round Chinese weasel hair brushes, various sizes; Pro Arte Series 9A Prolene Sword Liners, sizes small, medium and large • DANIEL SMITH WATERCOLOUR STICKS,…
How to Paint A Quick, Spontaneous, Wild Bouquet in Watercolor – Kate Osborne Tutorial
Wild Bouquet by Kate Osborne Tutorial in Artists & Illustrators https://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/how-to/watercolour/why-you-dont-always-need-a-preparatory-sketch/ Kate’s materials Paints: Cadmium Yellow, Green Gold, Opera Rose and Perylene Green, all Winsor & Newton Professional Water Colour; Transparent Pyrrol Orange, Ultramarine Blue and Cerulean Blue, all Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors; Raw Umber, Daler-Rowney Artists’ Watercolour; Green, St Petersburg White Nights watercolour; Permanent…
How to Paint Wisteria in Watercolor – Adding Floral Details to Architectural Painting – Fabio Cembranelli
Painting by Fabio Cembranelli Tutorial in Artists & Illustrators https://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/how-to/how-to-paint-wisteria-in-watercolour/ “Wisteria is not an easy subject to paint in watercolour. If you suggest round shapes instead of drooping clusters, for example, it’s going to look like a climbing rose instead. Colour choice is important: the most well-known shades of wisteria are lavender, pink, violet and…
How to Add Florals & Foliage to Architectural Paintings in Watercolor – Graham Booth Tutorial
Image and Tutorial Credit Artists & Illustrators https://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/how-to/watercolour/how-to-paint-jacaranda-trees/ This tutorial will show you how Grahame Booth mixes a brilliant purple watercolor and applies it to paint the flowering jacaranda trees that he added to the above painting: Palette: Quinacridone Magenta, French Ultramarine, Burnt Sienna Step 1: “Using a mix of Quinacridone Magenta and French Ultramarine,…
How to Render a Cottage in Wash and Pen & Ink – Grahame Booth Tutorial
Illustrators & Artists; “How to Capture a Cotswolds Cottage in Pen and Wash.” Artists & Illustrators, July 2021, www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/how-to/watercolour/how-to-capture-a-cotswolds-cottage-in-pen-and-wash. “Pen and wash is a brilliant medium for capturing architecture, as Grahame Booth shows in this guide to drawing a Cotswolds cottage. Photo Reference “Pen and wash is a very convenient and expressive sketching medium, one…
How to Paint Building and Street Scenes in Watercolor – Tutorial 2 – Painting with Graduated or Graded Washes- Grahame Booth
In this post, you will paint with watercolor washes that graduate or change within the wash itself. In the following article, Booth shows you how to create a graduated or graded wash: How to paint a graduated wash 1. DARK-TO-LIGHT Add more water to the mix for each line to achieve a dark-to-light wash. In…
How to Paint Building and Street Scenes in Watercolor – Tutorial 1 – Painting with Flat Washes- Grahame Booth
The above image shows the final step of Booth’s first tutorial in his book Street Scenes in Watercolor: In this tutorial, Booth demonstrates how to paint architectural details with flat washes. When painting with flat washes, the shadows are painted in second, third, etc., flat washes over the first wash that are darker in hue….
My Home is in William Faulkner Country – Down the Yocona River from Oxford, Mississippi
Home of William Faulkner Rowan Oak – Oxford, Mississippi Image Credit – Wikipedia When I was an Ole Miss coed, my part-time job was that of curating at the William Faulkner house–Rowan Oak, in Oxford, MS. That was during the late 1960s and early 1970s–only a few years after the Faulkner family donated Faulkner’s home…
Jacki Kellum Watercolor Paintings
The Raven – Jacki Kellum Watercolor Sold Janis Joplin – Jacki Kellum Watercolor Sold Little Napoleon: The Rooster – Jacki Kellum Watercolor Sold The Last Rose of Summer – Jacki Kellum Watercolor Sold Boy with Curls – Jacki Kellum Watercolor Sold Consider the Lilies: How They Grow – Jacki Kellum Watercolor Sold Fiesta – Jacki…
Time for Another Miracle: New Life, New Friends, New Home in Old Water Valley, Mississippi
I suspect that the eyes of my more fundamentalist friends roll when I tell them, over and over, that something miraculous has happened in my life. After my debut picture book The Donkey’s Song was acquired for publication, I told people that my book deal was a miracle: A Pitch for #PBpitch: How My Picture Book…