Watercolor course, I Moricci
Since 2009, I have held watercolor courses every summer at the I Moricci farm, located near the small town of Fabbrica in Tuscany, Italy. I Moricci is a farm that engages in both active…
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Viceversa | handmade paper
It was in 2019 that three women (Roberta Gagliardini, Melania Tozzi, and Roberta Brencio) decided to establish the social cooperative Viceversa in the small town of Fabriano, a town with a paper-making tradition dating…
Save the edge
When adding color to an object, it’s not always best to fill the entire shape with color. Sometimes the result is more airy, and gives a lighter feeling, if you leave a few millimeters…
Three triads
A combination of three colors, that forms an equilateral triangle on the color wheel, is usually called a color triad. These colors are thus all always the same distance from each other, but can…
Indigo – NB1
Indigo is a dye that is extracted from more than 30 different species of the plant Indigofera, which is widely present in large parts of the world. It is from the green leaves that…
Holding a paintbrush
The most common way to hold a brush is just like you hold a pencil. It’s natural and works for almost any brush technique. The beginner often has a tendency to hold the brush…
Red onion – a watercolor exercise
This is primarily an exercise in color mixing. Two colors are used for the painting. It is difficult to use colors other than those suggested, which are Quinacridone rose and phthalo green yellow tone….
