Tag: creativity
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Enhance Your Watercolor Landscapes with Vibrant Colors
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Creating vibrant watercolor landscapes can transform your paintings from flat and lifeless to dynamic and realistic. Here are three simple key tips to help you mix and layer colors to create beautiful and realistic landscapes. Choose your colors that are complementary on the color wheel One of the most effective…
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Watercolor Shapes – Mini Class
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This time we are using watercolor. Paint a cube, a sphere, and cone in watercolor. Painting monochromatic can help you to understand watercolor layering and transparency without the distraction of color. Check out more videos on Youtube.
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Essential Tips for Planning the Perfect Landscape Painting
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Creating a stunning landscape painting involves more than just picking up a brush and starting to paint. Thoughtful planning can make a huge difference in the final result. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you plan your perfect landscape painting. 1. Try Different Crops Before Deciding on a Composition Experimenting…
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Feeding your creative soul
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Creativity, much like any other skill, needs inspiration and fresh ideas. Art books and behind-the-scenes documentaries are the perfect fuel; inspiration feeding your creative soul. Art books don’t merely showcase finished works; they guide you through the evolution of characters and offer a backstage pass to the creative choices breathing…
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My sketching on location set up
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Sketching on location is an enjoyable way to interact with an environment. On weekends and in my free time, I love discovering locations to sketch. Over the years, I’ve improved my sketching skills through practice and experimentation with various mediums. While I primarily use watercolors, they can be less convenient…
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Art and Meditation
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Integrating art into your meditation practice can bring a sense of calm, creativity, and self-discovery to your life. There are so many incredible ways in which art and meditation can enrich your journey.
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Avoid these 3 beginner watercolor mistakes
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Watercolor painting attracts many new artists because of its accessibility, but naturally beginners will make some mistakes. Mistakes can lead to frustration, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Let’s explore some common errors and I will provide practical solutions to help beginners create better watercolor art.
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A guide to art journaling for beginners
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Keeping an art journal is a great way to express your creativity, thoughts, and emotions in a visual format. Unlike traditional journals, art journals incorporate a mix of writing, drawing, and collage to create personal pages. It doesn’t matter if you’re an experienced artist or a beginner, an art journal…
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Fuel your inspiration with a daily art practice
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As an artist who also teaches art, the lines between work and play start to blur. Sometimes things just flow and other times it’s like I am hitting my head against the wall. This is when an art practice can make such an impact. The act of creating something daily…
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3 reasons watercolor is my favorite medium
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The most common thing I hear about watercolor is that it is a difficult medium. It is unforgiving. You can’t cover up your mistakes. These may be true, but that is only half of the story. I first discovered watercolor through a YouTube artist called Agnes Cecile. Her portraits looked…