Hoffmann Watercolors

  Here’s a quick color study made with a big brush on small paper. The result is almost entirely shapes with just about no lines at all. Her...

 Let's  do some work practicing painting people in watercolor. Look up  artists whose paintings you admire. Chances are you'll like ...

Using edge quality to create an illusion is familiar territory to most realist artists. It is especially important for watercolor painters, ...

In addition to the usual elements of a realistic painting in progress, such as color distribution or the illusion of light, a watercolor pai...

Here's a motif we saw several times in last week's critique. The first  layer was  mostly soft-edged and pale, more shapes than line...

Painting by Susan Dory Can you make a thoroughly abstract painting like Joan Mitchell...

 We have seen several images that only need a stroke or two, to move from realism to abstraction. Look at this image from China Beach. What ...