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The Fear of Starting: Why Is Watercolor So Hard?
If you’ve clicked on this post, chances are you’ve felt that gut-wrenching, gnawing feeling in your stomach while staring at the white of a fresh new page. What…
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How to Paint a Watercolor Whale in 7 Easy Steps (Free Tutorial)
Watch the video first – it shows you step by step how to paint a whale with watercolor in much more detail. That said, I’ve broken things down…
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What Is Watercolor Paper? How It’s Different From Regular Paper
What Makes Watercolor Paper So Special? And Why Is Paper So Important? The Most Common Mistake Probably the most common (yet easily fixed) mistake beginners make with watercolor…
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How to Paint a Perfect Flat Wash in Watercolor
When I was first learning watercolor, the hardest wash for me to pull off was the simplest looking one – a flat wash. Just a layer of color…
WATERCOLOR / WATERCOLOR FOR BEGINNERS
What Watercolor Palette Should You Use? Plastic vs Porcelain, Size & Setup Guide
This is probably one of the easiest and most recognizable supplies for watercolor. But since it’s so recognizable and so familiar to us – sometimes we forget that…
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How to Mix Purple with Watercolors (Without Muddy Colors)
“I’m not sure quite why, but mixing colors has always come quite naturally to me. I guess in some strange way I was blessed with an eye for…