As always, I refine my reference photo into a black and white value thumbnail study, before I ever lay the brush to paper. In the first half hour of painting […]
I started this painting to demonstrate allowing Ultramarine blue, Cad red light, and Yellow Ochre to mingle freely wet-into-wet to create dramatic three-minute skies. I had no idea what I […]
This painting started as demonstration of a 3-minute wet-into-wet sky. We did four or five different skies then added the landscape elements afterwards. “English Cottage” was used to [...]
Thanks to Dorothy Koliba and Janice Sparks for putting together a great watercolor workshop in Milford Michigan last week. About 20 wonderful artists joined me as I conducted five days […]