Watercolor Painting

Is the pigment called opera rose lightfast or fugitive? I had always heard it was extremely fugitive, but experts don't agree.  Opera ro...

 In this new YouTube video , I paint a dramatic townscape in watercolor. I emphasize contrasts between light vs. dark, warm vs. cool, wet v...

American painter Edward Simmons (1852-1931) was an eyewitness to how Anders Zorn painted in watercolor: "Zorn was one of those artists...

American architect  Cass Gilbert  (1854-1934) designed the Minnesota State Capitol and the Woolworth building.  An early proponent of skyscr...

J.M.W. Turner's super-portable watercolor set consisted of a small set of cake colors in a leather pocket pouch. He also had slightly la...

  "Painting of Winfield Scott Cline" by Ogden Pleissner, watercolor and gouache, 1930s.

Hang out with me and Jeanette at the diner as I paint this blue plastic cup of ice water. ( Link to YouTube ) As we wait for our eggs and fr...

    --  Christopher L. Evans joins me and Jeanette to sketch Thomas Cole's old studio.  We talk about perspective and keeping brushes c...

For this informal sketch of a gravel road crossing a stone bridge I use transparent watercolor because of the sparkling qualities it offers....

Here's a pocket vista of Baltimore in a tiny book (3.5 x 5.5 inches). -- Why paint small? 1. More portable. 2. Less expensive. 3. Less o...

I paint the flowers of a forsythia shrub using a limited palette of watercolor and gouache. I show how to start by capturing the overall ges...

Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815 - 1910) painted this watercolor of a rune stone in a clearing of a northern pine forest in winter.  Andreas...

Anders Zorn (Swedish) painted the dealer Adolf Magnus in the model's garden. Anders Zorn ”Frukost i det gröna” (Breakfast in the garden,...

Irving Ramsey Wiles  (1861-1948) painted this reclining woman in 1895 using watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paper. The size is 22 x 28 ...

In this new video, I paint a green frog from life. I'll need him to hold still over an hour. Will he do it?  I consider the question of...

Elizabeth Shoumatoff  started working on her watercolor portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt at about noon on April 12, 1945.  During...

William Trost Richards  (American, 1833-1905) filled this sketchbook with remarkably detailed watercolor studies of English coastal scenery....

Frederick Walker (1840-1875) started learning to draw by copying prints in pen and ink, and he studied in the British Museum. Later he studi...

Godfrey T. Vigne (1801-1863) was a wealthy lawyer who happened to be an artist as well. He resolved to travel to the dangerous territories ...

Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828) did this plein-air watercolor at a small scale: 7½ by 6inches or 19.4 by 15.2cm., about the size of a ...