how to watercolor
This tag marks posts focused on watercolor technique and instruction rather than just finished artwork, pieces that walk through how an effect, wash, or technique was achieved. It’s aimed at readers who want to understand the process behind watercolor painting, not just admire the result. Use this tag if you’re looking to learn something about the medium yourself, rather than simply browse finished pieces for inspiration, whether that means picking up a new wash technique or understanding how an artist handles wet paper.
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Techniques for blending wet-into-wet and drybrush applications in watercolor
Learn how to combine wet-into-wet washes with drybrush detail in watercolor: timing, paper, water control and practice ideas.
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Essential tools and brushes for achieving fine details in drybrush painting
A practical checklist of the brushes, paper, paints and small tools you need for fine detail in drybrush painting, with tips on choosing each.
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A guide to mastering the hyperrealistic drybrush technique in contemporary watercolor
Learn how drybrush builds fine, textured detail in contemporary watercolor: brush control, paper choice, layering and common mistakes to avoid.
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Atanur Dogan
Atanur and Asuman Dogan are Turkish-Canadian watercolorists who met in 1983 studying fine arts in Izmir and later moved to Vancouver in 1993, drawing much of their work from Anatolian village life and Turkish customs. Atanur paints ordinary people and elderly figures, while Asuman works in a looser, semi-expressionist style capturing landscapes and still lifes.…
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Beni Gassenbauer
Beni Gassenbauer is a watercolor painter born in France in 1949 who settled in Jerusalem in 1976 and worked as a dentist before turning to painting full time at age forty. His large, luminous watercolors capture Jerusalem’s ancient gates, shadowed passageways, and courtyards, shaped by the light and shadow of French Impressionism and the Barbizon…
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Daniel Arteta | Watercolor Paintings
Daniel Arteta is a self-taught Uruguayan watercolorist born in 1967 in San Carlos, Maldonado, who has painted professionally since 1992 after studying color theory with Professor Ana Bosso. Describing himself as a colorist watercolorist, he transforms natural landscapes into free, atmospheric compositions, work recognized with a stamp issued by the Uruguayan Post for San Carlos’s…
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Georgia O’keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe was an American painter born on a farm in Wisconsin in 1887, celebrated for large-scale flower paintings and skyscraper scenes that helped earn her the title Mother of American Modernism and the first solo show by a woman artist at MoMA. A 1929 trip to New Mexico transformed her work, drawing her to…
