Hoffmann Watercolors

Looking at a photo, and, even more, looking at a live scene, it's usually easy to tell where everything is in the space that is visib...

Warm / Cool          Oaxaca A.M. Here's an exercise for exploring the concepts we've touched on regarding  warm/cool. ...

Whenever you take on a new scene or image as a painting subject, it's a very good idea to consider what might pose a problem for you....

When you can look at a scene and see it as a series of layers made of washes and strokes, there is information there that might tell you w...

Please read this slowly before you start painting. In the image above, which is darker, the door of the shack or the shadow on the b...

Remember the fringe of backlit chestnut leaves along the bottom of the big tree? Of course you do. I think everyone of us saw what ha...

To be accurate, it would probably be better to call this kind of painting, "damp into wet", since it is usually important to keep ...