In today’s guest post, handmade watercolor paint-maker Stacey Dodds of Stakiwi Colours shares 4 reasons why handmade watercolor are different than store-bought watercolors.
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Today’s post is written by a guest author, the very talented Priscilla Lee! Priscilla is an artist with a beautiful, delicate sensibility. Besides calligraphy and watercolor, she is a maker of ceramic dishes and watercolor palettes. Below, she shares the story behind her journey to ceramics and the making of her handmade watercolor palettes.
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In today’s post, I’m sharing the 24 colors I have in my 24-well watercolor palette. Color selection is a personal choice and it all comes down to what colors you personally enjoying painting with. I believe as my own painting experience evolves, so will the color selection in my palettes.
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Today, I want to offer a little perspective on the question “What if I’m just not creative?” in hopes that it will begin to shift your mindset about this limiting belief. Because once you do, you’ll be able to start pursuing your creative interests. And I bet that after you start creating without self-judgement, you’ll wonder why you didn’t get started sooner.
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Here are a few reasons why I wanted to start this podcast with my good friend, Jisun Park of Everleaf Designs. If you want to give our podcast a listen, it’s called Pockets of Time.
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In today’s post, I’m sharing my approach to painting gradient watercolor skies. The first approach is my simple method and the second approach is a little more complex. Gradient skies serves as useful backgrounds of landscapes and are a great way to practice how to paint color transitions.
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Sometimes I think about what it would be like to be one of those people that comes over and organizes your home for you. I love organizing things, but I’m pretty sure I’m not good enough to be a professional home organizer. Mostly because in the end it’s not hyper organized, it’s just organized enough so that I can find all my stuff and my space doesn’t feel crazy.
So if you’re looking for some practical organization of watercolor supplies, keep reading for how I organize my paper, brushes, paints, and palettes.
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In this post, I’m sharing a collaboration palette created with Kelly of Letter Sparrow. This palette is called the Primaries Palette. It includes two sets of primaries to create a diverse rainbow of colors.
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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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