Crash Diets That Work

For water colour painters, it makes no difference if you’re thinking of tackling a landscape or pet portrait, you’ll be faced with having to show areas of dark shadow. Many leisure painters, when first faced with dark areas in their picture, will quite often use a tube of black or produce muddy looking colours. Regrettably, it can be quite hard to see the different tones within dark areas, it’s much easier to gauge colour tone in the lighter shades. (more…)

Water colour’s a medium that allows for many tricks to produce the required effects. One of the more difficult effects to overcome effectively is snow. Not merely useful for landscape painters but can also bring a little something to pet portraits as well. (more…)

When you think about portraits, you frequently think of oil painting. Nevertheless, many superb portraits have been done using water colour. Water colours offer a means of capturing quick informal studies that where they lack on detail, more than make up for it in character. (more…)

Artists using water colours, if they’re producing landscapes, portraits or indeed pet portraits, will usually opt for a high quality water colour paper as a support. One of the things to consider when buying the paper is what weight to go for. Paper weights, which are measured in Pounds, are based on the weight of a ream of paper, a ream being 480 sheets. (more…)

Artists creating pet portraits can choose between a selection of painting surfaces, but if you’re using water colour the option to go for has to be water colour paper. The making of high quality paper for artists has become an art form in itself and undertaken by skilled craftsmen. Among the best are those that are hand made and provide artists with a choice of surfaces to suit a variety of painting techniques. (more…)