Tag Archives: planning before painting

Best Laid Plans

Posted on by

I carefully prepared before setting watercolor to paper today. I used my compass to draw circles and my French curve to draw a sweeping curve across the paper as well as two parallel curved lines.  I even used a straight edge to draw a couple of diverging lines. In the next step, I used latex frisket […]

About Those Watercolors

Posted on by

Yesterday, my watercolor experiment was all about allowing watercolors to flow into each other to create patterns and mixtures with very little artist intervention. The artist sets up the scenario and then allows the watercolors to do the rest of the work. Today’s watercolor experiment: Today I used the same pigments as I did in […]