Hoffmann Watercolors

Read this whole post before you begin painting, please. This painting is made up of a sky and a field of sagebrush. Each was made ...

For a variety of reasons, artists often choose to deliberately obscure portions of a painting, creating a so called "lost edge". ...

Here are a few images that rely heavily on the darkest darks to carry the narrative content of the scene. They have been desaturated to make...

Here's a scenario that may sound familiar; Wet the paper. Block in the pale major shapes (plenty of soft edges).  Prepare and appl...

It takes practice to learn to identify which information in a scene is essential and which is optional. Then it takes even more practice...

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 ...

Seeing your painting subject as a series of layers is a very helpful approach. The transparency of the medium suggests that you proceed from...