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 II.)
When you practice painting trees, begin by studying the bare outlines of winter trees (deciduous), because you can better see their whole structure and their…
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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…
Dusk, Evening, and Moonlight… Oh, My!
Paintings set at nighttime might seem very different from the usual watercolor scenes. Dusk, evening, or even dawn pictures have a predominance of dark values. …
Lee Muir-Haman Watercolor Painting 