Real-time Watercolor Snowflake Tutorial Using Masking Fluid
Let's bring a little color to these winter days!
Join me in painting a few beautiful snowflakes. Follow along in the easy step-by-step process. Steps include (1) taping paper, (2) sketching snowflakes, (3) masking snowflakes, (4) painting snowflakes, and (5) removing masking fluid. Use any water...
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Fairy Penguin - 15 Minute Real Time Watercolor Tutorial
Paint an adorable Fairy Penguin with me in just 15 minutes! This video includes about 3-4 minutes of sketching time and 11 minutes of painting. All steps are shown in real time. The only additional time required includes drying time between layers.
For this tutorial I use the following items:
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Simple Watercolor Hearts for Valentine’s Day
Paint some hearts with me to celebrate the day of love!
In this video, I use the following list of tools. You can use all of these or just a single palette. I encourage you to experiment with different colors. Don’t worry so much about the exact palette, but rather challenge yourself to try new t...
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Switzerland Illustrated with Derwent Pencils & Blocks
On June 17, 2022, my family and I set off for the small but mighty country of Switzerland. We prepared for eight days of magnificent mountain views serenaded by the tinkling of cowbells and medieval church chimes. The experience ended up exceeding our expectations, as enchanting European cities o...
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Simple Watercolor Carrots with Derwent Inktense Pencils and Inktense Palette
Here is a simple step-by-step video on how to paint a colorful bunch of carrots!
I use the Derwent Inktense Palette as well as the water soluble Inktense pencils to bring vibrant layers to an easy and quick illustration. The whole piece should take less than an hour. See below for the list of ma...
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Watercolor Winter Scenes & Hand Painted Notecards
Happy Winter!
The snow is falling and the winds are howling. So, get inside, grab your watercolors, and join me in painting some lovely, wintery wonderlands! Participants will use Derwent Inktense Paints to create six small snowy scenes. These can be divided when finished and used as greeting ca...
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Pumpkin Tutorial: Beginner Watercolor Autumn Painting
HAPPY FALL!
Join me and paint a little stack of pumpkins! October is my favorite month, and there’s no better way to celebrate the spooky season than with a simple squash painting. This is a beginner watercolor tutorial that introduces the wet-on-wet technique as well as the wet-on-dry technique...
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Exploring Cyanobacteria “Harmful Algal Blooms” with Watercolor
Art and environmental issues…
Personally, a lot of environmental issues stress me out, and apparently I’m not alone with these emotions. In fact, an educator named David Sobel coined a term to explain this feeling of hopelessness. “Ecophobia” is used to describe a mindset in which an individual i...
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Exploring Iceland with Derwent Paint Palettes
In July of 2021, with leftover year-old canceled plane tickets, my husband, parents, and a few friends finally embarked on a long-awaited journey to the land of Ice and Fire. We were eager to go and grateful for the international travel opportunity. This was going to be a trip to remember, and we...
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Spring Tulip Notecards with Derwent Inktense and Metallics
Spring is here, and so are all the beautiful BLOOMS! To celebrate, I recorded a simple tulip painting tutorial with Michaels.com. View the video below.
(The video is a little blurry, but the steps are clear.) Happy painting! Here’s what you’ll need…
Paper: Arches 8×10 Cold Pressed Block or any o...
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Derwent Inktense Paint Pan Travel Set 01
Landscapes painted with Derwent Inktense Paint Pant Set #1
Flowers painted with Derwent Inktense Paint Pant Set #1. This image shows a combined palette of Set #1 and Set #2, but all flowers were painted using only set #1.
Watercolor is such an exciting, versatile, and complex medium, but the wor...
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Evolve Back Kabini: A wild experience in the Western Ghats
Just two weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic rattled the world, I sat mesmerized by the glistening reflection of the Indian sun on the Kabini Dam. I was in India for an unforgettable and shareworthy two-week tour of this beautifully wild and culture-filled country. The whole trip was a perfect se...
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