Hoffmann Watercolors

The standard approach to making a watercolor goes by many names, such as, "wash and stroke", or , "wet to dry", but...

This dramatic sky wanted to be painted! It's a little intimidating, though, with all that activity in the sky. Rather than try to d...

How do you know what has to be in the picture and what can be excluded? Take a look at the pictures, below. As painting subjects, do you fee...

I'm sure I don't need to post an image here to show you what an overpainted picture looks like. The main feature is too many brus...

Are you ready? For this exploration let's follow the same progressions we use for realist work, that is, light to dark and general to ...

When you feel the urge to depart from accuracy in your paintings, but the prospect of having no guidelines gives you pause, do as the Fauves...

Sometimes reducing the complexity of a scene is a worthy goal in itself just for the pleasure of seeing how simply the content can be state...