Get Good at Watercolor
There is only one way to become good at something, whatever it may be, and that is to do it often and regularly. No one has ever become good at playing the piano or…
Category: philosophy
Don’t write with a brush
Why do almost all beginners paint a thin line using a bunch of tiny brushstrokes?The answer is actually pretty obvious: we’re used to writing with a pen but not with a brush. When we…
Stop Rubbing
Since many of my students – both beginners and those who have painted for years – tend to rub watercolor paint onto the paper, I assume this is quite a common habit. By “rubbing”…
What the Hell Is a Swatch?
If you’re interested in watercolor painting and start looking for information on YouTube, chances are you’ll come across someone carefully painting watercolor in small squares. As far as I know, there’s no real term…
Signing your painting
Artists haven’t always signed their work. The role of the artist began to shift during the Renaissance, when ideas of individual creativity and the artist’s status as an intellectual rather than a craftsman became…
Information on paints
This text is about Swedish online shops with artist materials. It is probably not interesting for visitors from other countries, or this problem is more general and applies to you as well. Swedish online…
Color mixing chart
Do an image search on ”mixing watercolors” or similar, and you will get results that look like the image above. Diagrams of different watercolors mixed in a grid, which I’m sure takes a long…
Is green paint unnecessary
In many of my students’ paint boxes, green colors are overrepresented. Personally, I probably have more green colors than others. Still, I almost never use green paint to paint green, preferring to mix my…
Is blue the most important color?
When I teach about colors for the first time with my students, I usually say that the color blue is important, perhaps the most important of all. On the other hand, I have met…
