I think it’s interesting that this rainy day scene doesn’t actually involve painting raindrops. It’s about finding a way to capture the effects that all those raindrops have on the environment they are falling on.

Do you need to know how to draw in order to paint? I can see this from both sides, but my answer would be ‘no’.  In my opinion, you don’t need to know how to draw in order to paint. You especially don’t need to draw well in order to paint.

Clovers are more simple to paint when isolated and more complex when grouped together. The goal of the class is to experiment with how to paint a grouping of them in a loose, abstract way.

In this blog post, I will share with you 3 things that have helped me find more “success” with wet on wet watercolor painting.

For this particular gift tag, I picked a reference photo that I immediately felt inspired to give a try but would be more approachable if I shrunk it down and treated it like a mini watercolor illustration.

Come along for a flip-through of the pages from inside my 2022 Artful August mixed media watercolor sketchbook.