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In this video clip I showing how to use the watercolor in a different way, leaving several white spaces – letting the white of the paper be exposed, and paint only the main focus of the composition by using dry strokes of watercolor combined with some wet on wet washes. The effects are soft, and…

The painting above, is a painting of ‘different’ trees, they are ‘my trees’ – and I said, different, and that they are mine, because they hardly resemble normal trees. They are more phantasy trees. The video below shows how I completed the painting. In this case, although I pointed on the details of the composition,…

I did the painting above by using watercolors in the following manner: 1. I started by using wet on wet technique, which is accomplished by applying layers of color while one layer is wet, it helps to create the softness of the composition which is characteristic of watercolors.2. Taking advantage of the wet paper, and…

Hi, this time, I did the painting above, using a less detailed, and more loose style. See by yourself. What I did in this painting is to apply wet on wet layers – I dried them in order before I apply another layer, but I did it only with the intention to keep the intensity…

Hello, I did this painting above using watercolors. In this case, I used a little different technique, mostly dry strokes of color, and creating transparencies. The following is the video that shows the several steps used to complete the painting. I did mainly the following:1. Using dry strokes of color, I created the first layers…

Watercolor paper part I Watercolor paper – almost everyone who try to paint with watercolors have to struggle in finding the appropriate paper. In my opinion, the paper is the hard part of the technique, because most ‘good’ papers are more expensive. So, quality and price make it things a little complicated. The good news,…