David Millard Copy

by | Jan 30, 2010 | history

When a person is eager to learn all they can about watercolor and art and even copies from paintings in a book, it is a privilege. One thing to be sure to do when you copy is to put the name of the original artist along with your own name. About 10 years after I did...

No Palette!

by | Jan 24, 2010 | random stuff

This is about that black and white watercolor that didn’t show up very well in the previous story that I posted.   It is not easy to paint a scene in front of you with no colors to use, but a good exercise for an artist to just look at dark and light values and...

Everything So Rosey

by | Jan 24, 2010 | inspiration, random stuff

I didn’t know any better, but soon learned not to paint with my sunglasses on!  They made everything so pretty and rosey looking, I just loved it. When I would get home after being out painting on location I wondered why my colors looked so blaw. Well, I soon...

A Single Cloud

by | Jan 19, 2010 | random stuff

It is fun to look at the clouds and see if you can see anything that represents an image, like maybe an animal, a face, or whatever. Some of my early art lessons were of this kind of game, to find an image on the canvas that had an underpainting on it and capture...

Proof of the Fish

by | Jan 13, 2010 | random stuff

Way back when I was in Marie Wordell’s watercolor class in the late 1980’s, we had a lesson about Gyotaku. It has to do with putting paint on a real fish and then stamping that onto paper to prove how big your fish that you caught actually was.  That way...