Tag Archives: Watercolor

“Let’s Paint Grapes in Watercolor”

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Hello Everyone, I’ve been wanting to practice paint these color grapes for a while now. Grapes can be green, dark blue, maroon, purple…so many different colors.

Having a color chart is essential when painting. It will be an exciting day when we learn how to make a video with audio. I will show you how I made my color charts then.

I hope you can also check out my painting of my “Basket of Fruit” Design #207 in the Watercolor Gallery of our website. I love the fruit arrangement and the basket. This design has lots of beautiful colors. I have found I absolutely love painting pictures of food!

So, let me know what you think is the best shadow under the plate, the lighter one or the darker one. After thinking about it for a while, I think if I just lighten it up a bit (now that I have made it darker), it would look a little better, do you think?

Happy Creating,

Vicki

“Let’s Paint an Eye in Watercolor”

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Hello Everyone, I want to paint so many things. My craft room is full of inspirational ideas to paint, as is my photo collection and lessons I have learned from Lindsay Weirich, my favorite YouTube Artist.

I have wanted to paint this lesson of Lindsay’s for quite some time now. Each step to making a painting is so enjoyable to me. It’s not fun if I try to make the painting perfect. I’m finding I learn something every time I paint.

Using the beautiful paint colors, exploring and finding materials that help me make the painting… it’s so exciting!

I have so much enjoyed painting Newborn Portraits. Saving that precious memory for someone of what that sweet baby looked like and what the baby wore coming home from the hospital is such a special memory for the parents and for the child in later years. I have saved two examples of my Baby Portraits on our website in Custom Services.

Hope you too have many exciting ideas to make your day happy!

Vicki

“Let’s Paint a Carnation In Watercolor”

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Hello Everyone,

This week I’m practicing painting a carnation – one of my granddaughter’s birthday surprises! Carnations brighten up the room and are so cheerful!

All the paints I used were M. Graham except Viridian hue which is Reeves. The Pro White is from Daler Rowney. Some people do not use white paint when they watercolor, they instead leave the paper white, or mask areas so that no paint will get in that area. I usually leave the paper white instead of using white paint. In this case I didn’t have any pink, so I opted to add white. If you don’t want to add any white, you can always purchase a pink color. I put the Pro White on my palette, added a little water and mixed it well with the Pyrol Red that was already mixed with a lot of water to get pink. My favorite watercolor paper is Arches, 140#, cold press, but when I’m practice painting I use Strathmore. If you buy this paper, buy it in the brown cover. It has a bit more “tooth” in it than the yellow covered one.

Thanks for watching this fun painting today, I hope I have inspired you in some way.

Next week I will post another painting for my “Let’s Paint” month. Hope you can join me.

Happy Creating,

Vicki

Let’s Paint Sunflower Leaves in Watercolor

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Hello Everyone,  I started practicing painting sunflowers awhile ago and wanted to finish the painting in this video. I added the leaves and it will now be the front of a greeting card.

I love sunflowers, they are so cheerful, especially seeing a painting of them in the middle of winter!

Hope you enjoy this video. I had fun finishing the painting.

Happy Creating,

Vicki