Hoffmann Watercolors

 Hare are some trees to climb.  Practice simplifying the shapes. What you see when you squint is pretty much what belongs in a paining. How ...

 Seeing positive and negative shapes involves a fundamental skill set.  Painting silhouettes is great practice. You probably see more than o...

 Every now and then a subject comes along that can be understood as a sequence of layers that progress from ,pale  general statements to mor...

 Unfortunate name. It's the shorthand way to describe the process of surrounding shapes with noticeably different paint, such as darker ...

      When I am painting light and shadow I find it useful to ask "what is the dominant color?" It is almost always a cooler, dark...

  So far, in class we've done more work from photos than from life. This week's homework exercise puts your understanding of seeing ...

  Try to isolate the middle value shapes from  the darks and lights. It may be easier to make value comparisons without the colors to distra...