Art Blog for The Inspiration Place

A common frustration I hear beginning watercolor students is confusion over the wide variety of pigments and paints.

In my online watercolor course on painting the figure, I got this question from one of my students:

QUESTION:I have read a suggestion of picking one red, one blue and one yellow for a painting and for harmony, mixing all the colors from those three primaries. However, I notice you use...

Lately, I have been obsessed with butterflies and their metamorphosis partly because of transition I am going through with my family. Yet, we are all in a constant transitions throughout our lives. Whether the transition of growing older, changing our life purposes, moving, or simply adjusting to the changes of those around us. The Alice in Wonderlandtale still captivates us with its lyrical...

Last week, I had a series of unfortunate events-- all in the same day. For example, my contact ripped in half and I had to run over to the eye doctor to have the him fish the remainder out of my eye. I also dropped a valuable (yes, very valuable) earring down the drain, but because the weather was so glorious that day my mood was unaffected. I could just observe these events and laugh at them...at...