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The second course we’ve released with Udemy is Architecture and Landscapes in Watercolor. As with Paint Realistic Watercolor Portraits, this course features a full watercolor demonstration, showing the entire process of making a painting. What’s more, this course features three camera angles: one overhead shot, one closeup shot, and one showing palette footage.
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This website has always been about delivering high-quality art instruction. To that end, we’ve begun creating and publishing watercolor courses on udemy.com. The first is called Paint Realistic Watercolor Portraits.
Continue reading “Paint Realistic Watercolor Portraits”The real painting process begins when you take your reference photos. The high quality, the better.
But once you’ve got them, then what? How do you make your raw photos suitable for painting?
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Confidence is an intangible but essential quality to good painting and drawing. Telling someone to paint more confidently is equally as useless as telling a shy person to be more outgoing: and yet, confident brushstrokes and artistic decisions telegraph through the layers of paint and improve the finished work in a powerful way. With that challenge in mind, here are some tips for becoming more confident in your painting.
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Hey guys! Today’s topic maybe isn’t the most watercolor specific, but hey, it’s drawing specific, and drawing is the foundation of everything we do.
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I love painting faces. Every face is a new challenge. As I become more and more absorbed in the task, years of studying facial structure, expression, color theory, watercolor technique, and anatomy emerge and seamlessly offer me solutions to problems one stroke, one moment at a time. I feel like a painting superhero.
And then when it’s over, it’s…over. I go back to thinking about the energy bill or washing dishes or doing the laundry. Life continues.
This experience is common to all people, and yet it yields uncommon results. It has been called by many names, such as “the zone” or “the pocket.” Scientists have another name for it: Flow. Continue reading “Achieving Flow: the Pomodoro Technique”