Category Archives: Watercolor in Progress

Materials & Tools I Use to Paint in Watercolor

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Watercolor is such an exciting journey. Since I started painting, 2015, I have picked up various tools and supplies to get the end result of a painting I have in mind. In this video I talk about using masking fluid, toothbrushes, sponges and lots of other materials. I hope this helps you to accomplish how you’d like your painting to look like. I also show you what I found to help squeeze that last bit of paint out of your tube paints.

I will show you in this video what I will use to begin these two paintings in progress. I hope to complete them in about two weeks and will post the end results on my Artist Blog.

Until next time, Happy Creating,

Vicki

Glass Bottles in Watercolor / Painting In Progress

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Painting glass is fun and challenging at the same time. Painting in steps is key. I set up a still life, changed the colors of two of my bottles, added masking fluid to keep some of the highlights, put my first glaze on, added the shadows, then painted deeper darker colors of the bottles, took the masking fluid off, and put in a few more highlights – that’s it! This is my second painting using my new Winsor/Newton Cotman student grade paints. They did well, however it was my first time using my “hot” press paper (not rough, but smooth) and couldn’t quite figure out at first if it was the paints or paper that didn’t like a lot of lifting. I came to the conclusion that it was the paper. I plan on painting a lot more glass now and then. Maybe I’ll try my cold press paper instead to see if I like painting the look of glass on that better.

Final painting – “Glass Bottles”
My sketch is finished, I painted the furthest bottle with the first glaze, put masking fluid on the bottles to save highlights, and added some green on the two bottles to have the look of a reflection.

Until next time,

Happy Creating,

Vicki

“Watercolor in Progress / Bluebird & Black-eyed Susans”

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Hello Everyone, I loved painting the bluebird a couple weeks ago on the fence on my “Let’s Paint” Series and wanted to paint a bigger bluebird.

In this video I show you “behind the scenes” of what I do between making my “Let’s Paint” series, my “Make a Card with Vicki” videos, and my projects I love accomplishing, usually for gifts.

Happy Creating,

Vicki