Fostering Creativity.
How many of us are secretly afraid, although we hope it is not true, that we don’t have the abilities necessary to be creative? How…
How many of us are secretly afraid, although we hope it is not true, that we don’t have the abilities necessary to be creative? How…
If you have ever tried to paint with watercolors, you know how difficult it can be to estimate amounts of water accurately. Some beginners may…
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Tree color is dependent on several factors. Never depict trees in your paintings as all the same color – a strong, unvaried green – because…
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Artists new to watercolor find painting trees an endless source of frustration and difficulty. They may have been told to look closely and study their…
In Greek mythology, Athena, the goddess of wisdom, sprang fully formed from Zeus’s brow. Painting, however, doesn’t work that way. Even when a painter has…