It took me more than 2 years of watercoloring to finally purchase my first handmade watercolor paint. I’m not sure why it took me so long to look into them but I’m just now starting to discover this world of handmade watercolors.
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I painted a fun little project a few weeks ago that I'm sharing on the blog today: rainbow watercolor borders.
For these watercolor borders, I was going for an "abstract" look. I used bold strokes, wet-on-wet mixed with dry brush, some splatter, and a bit of dabbing to paint 12 sheets in all the colors of the rainbow.
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The need to find a way to organize our watercolor artwork is a real thing. Because you can’t just have all this paper laying around or stuffed in between your books on your bookshelves.
So if you want to know how I keep my stacks of painting under control, read on for my super simple system of keeping (most) of my artwork nicely organized!
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Today, I’d like to share with you why I started watercoloring.
We all have a story behind why the desire comes up to try something new - even something fun like watercolors. A lot of times it appears as a simple need to be creative, but more often than not, the story is deeper than that.
While I’m still hesitant to share this here on the blog, I am doing so in hopes that it inspires you to start or keep going with your creative pursuits. You never know how it will help you and where it will take you.
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Today, I’m sharing my attempts at painting a dog from a course I purchased on Enterclass. I’ve always admired watercolors painted in a loose and wet style and thought I would share the learning process (and progress) I’m making as I try it out!
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In hopes of encouraging the people looking at my work and thinking “I could never do that”, I want to share my mistakes (my practice). Because we all have to make mistakes and practice before we can make something that we are proud of.
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I took an unexpected 3-month long creative break. It was just what I needed and I came to a few important realizations. In today’s blog post I share what happened when I took a long creative break, the important lessons I learned, and what I painted when I returned to creating for myself.
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One of the best things that has come out of starting this blog and sharing my own watercolor work is connecting with beginners and helping them along as they learn to work with the medium.
I especially enjoy hearing about why they chose to try watercolors and what kind of breakthroughs they are making just by painting and trying new things.
Ultimately that is the intent behind why I created my foundational online course, Just Watercolor. A belief that you just need to start painting.
My goal is to encourage beginners not just to paint with watercolors, but to believe in themselves and build the confidence to keep painting.
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I’m excited to finally be sharing this blog post all about my watercolor swatch cards. This post will walk you through you how I make them, what they tell me about the paints, and how I organize them for storing and easy reference.
At this point my swatch card collection contains 80 cards even though I don’t own 80 tubes of paint! More than 50% of the colors are from paint samples given to me by watercolor artist friends.
So I know you probably have some paints to swatch, so let’s get started!
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I don’t know about you but I always appreciate seeing how things are made so I decided to document the process of how I make my monthly desktop wallpapers for you.
Just in case you don’t already know, I make a free monthly desktop and phone wallpaper to gift to friends on my email list. I’ve been doing this since April 2017 - shortly after I started this blog!
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So you’ve bought watercolor supplies. You know they are good supplies and you’re excited to use them. You’ve got everything out on the table. But now what…are you wondering what to do next?
If you’re sitting there wondering how to actually *start* watercoloring, I’m going to give you a few ideas in today’s blog post.
The suggestions I give below are ways of getting started with watercolors that have worked for me. There are many ways to approach starting and learning with watercolors besides what I’m suggesting, but I hope that this gives you some ideas. The methods will vary based on your own personality and how you like to learn and explore new things.
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I’m still not sure if “behind the scenes” is the right term for this but in today’s blog post and video I am sharing the story behind where the idea of painting these watercolor ultrasounds came from and the process of how I paint them.
So where did this idea come from?
Well - it wasn’t an “idea” that I came up with while brainstorming one day or anything. And to be honest, I love that it didn’t originate that way.
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