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Tips for Combining Watercolor and Pencil in Everyday Sketching

Tips for Combining Watercolor and Pencil in Eve...

Pencil and watercolor were always going to end up in the same sketchbook. They act differently, but they live in the same small spaces, wherever there’s time to pause a...

Tips for Combining Watercolor and Pencil in Eve...

Pencil and watercolor were always going to end up in the same sketchbook. They act differently, but they live in the same small spaces, wherever there’s time to pause a...

Why Beginners Struggle With Wash Techniques and What Helps

Why Beginners Struggle With Wash Techniques and...

At first glance, a watercolor wash looks like the easiest part. You wet the brush, move it across the paper, and the color settles in. But if you’re new to...

Why Beginners Struggle With Wash Techniques and...

At first glance, a watercolor wash looks like the easiest part. You wet the brush, move it across the paper, and the color settles in. But if you’re new to...

Guide to Understanding What Mixed Media Really Means in Practice

Guide to Understanding What Mixed Media Really ...

Mid-winter slows everything down. Light flattens. The cold makes us move less. In the studio, we don’t step in with clarity so much as we shuffle toward the pile of...

Guide to Understanding What Mixed Media Really ...

Mid-winter slows everything down. Light flattens. The cold makes us move less. In the studio, we don’t step in with clarity so much as we shuffle toward the pile of...

Why granulation is affected by how long the paint sat in the pan

Why granulation is affected by how long the pai...

Paint has a history before it reaches the paper. A pan that was fully dry and slowly rehydrated behaves differently from a pan that remained damp or was repeatedly disturbed...

Why granulation is affected by how long the pai...

Paint has a history before it reaches the paper. A pan that was fully dry and slowly rehydrated behaves differently from a pan that remained damp or was repeatedly disturbed...

Why rewetting a dry wash changes the pigment itself

Why rewetting a dry wash changes the pigment it...

Rewetting is often described as reactivation, as if adding water simply returns paint to its original state. But a dry wash has already gone through a process. Pigment particles have...

Why rewetting a dry wash changes the pigment it...

Rewetting is often described as reactivation, as if adding water simply returns paint to its original state. But a dry wash has already gone through a process. Pigment particles have...

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Finding Flow in Abstract Collage Without a Form...

Mid-January slows everything down. Light flattens. The cold makes us move less. In the studio, we don’t step in with clarity so much as we shuffle toward the pile of...

Finding Flow in Abstract Collage Without a Form...

Mid-January slows everything down. Light flattens. The cold makes us move less. In the studio, we don’t step in with clarity so much as we shuffle toward the pile of...