Hoffmann Watercolors

These rocks look like a challenging subject when you think of them as separate shapes. Let's start by combining all the components i...

Take a long look at the image, below.  What do you see first, texture or shapes? Look at the green grass, for example. Do...

When you are just beginning a watercolor the usual procedure is to block in the major shapes with the lightest tone that is present. At that...

 A hard edge is a hard edge. There's no such thing as a slightly hard edge or an extremely hard edge.  If your paper is dry, the strokes...

The last week of class the homework is always up to you. Work on some aspect of your practice that needs strengthening, or something that d...

It was fun watching everyone in class asserting their opinions about changes in composition. Clearly we all have an archive of examples of w...

While we're still on the subject of symbolic realism, the artist I've been searching for has emerged, Jill McElmurry. I couldn't...