Jun 29

10 Painting Principles

This is a great list for checking out anyone's work. When I am not sure what to modify in a painting that needs something, this is pretty much what runs through my head. 
10 Painting Principles

Gregg Kreutz is the author of this list. He is an oil painter, but I am including his website so that you may see his work and how he uses the above list.
Gallery

This is a great little video at the end of the article that you may miss. I love it!
A creative pick-me-up


Painting With Greens

This article strips greens down to 4 colors.

As Pablo said -
“They’ll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.” -Pablo Picasso
4 Color Combination for Greens

Jun 22

Vocabulary - Grisaille

The colour grey has been used throughout art history. The technique Grisaille relies on it. Here the background and outlines of a painting are composed in grey and white, the colours then applied on top, and the underlayer giving a helpful shading effect. Rembrandt, an expert at mixing a wide variety of greys, used this technique for many of his portraits. Another artist known for his use of grey was James McNeill Whistler, who mixed a very particular grey for the background of his 1871 painting ‘Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1’, best known as Whistler's Mother. Whistler's extensive grey tonal subtleties went on to directly influence the French composer Claude Debussy’s 1899 musical composition ‘Nocturnes’ of which he wrote "an experiment in the different combinations that can be obtained from one colour – what a study in grey would be in painting."
Wikipedia - Grisaille

Jun 15

9 Ways to Paint Impressive Watercolor Flowers

I don't usually include outright ads in this blog, but ArtistNetwork has some great videos, created by artists that many of us are familiar with, from their books. I don't know the pricing of these classes, but they look good.
Here are some of the artists:
Hazel Soan
Soon Warren
Jean Haines
Julie Gilbert Pollard
Paint Impressive Watercolor Flowers



How to Place Figures in Your Landscape Paintings

"Even just a single figure, carefully placed, can add life, a sense of scale and real interest to your landscape paintings."
Place Figures in Landscape Paintings

Jun 01

Kyle Gallup

Kyle Gallup is an American artist living and working in New York. 

She was invited to a Winsor & Newton International Residency.

This is her website
This is her Watercolor/City page