Avoid Painting Lollipop Trees! (Part III.)
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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Avoid Painting Lollipop Trees! (Part I.)
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…
Painting Decisions Along The Way…
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…
Realism: Better Than An Exact Copy!
Realistic painting often gets a bad rap nowadays. The implication seems to be that abstract painting is creative, raw, cool, and trendy; that realistic painting…
Creativity Can Be Learned!
CREATIVITY CAN BE LEARNED! By adopting a creative outlook, you open yourself up to both new possibilities and to change. You become able to…
Lee Muir-Haman Watercolor Painting 