4 Common Watercolor Mistakes and How to Fix Them! Watercolor is a wonderful medium for creating works of fine art and illustration. It’s affordable, easy to use and creates vivid yet fluid color that is well-suited to a variety of different artistic styles. However, watercolor is not always the most forgiving medium — if you add too much water to a wash it can dry in uneven, splotchy color. when still wet, different colors can bleed into one another.
And, what if you accidentally drop paint on the page? Don’t worry: While these crises are occasionally inevitable, they are also quite curable. Here are a handful of common calamities which can occur while working in watercolor, as well as some easy solutions. Illustrations and photos via CakeSpy Mistake #1: Unwanted paint marks on the page Cause: D’oh! Solution: 1. 2. 3. 4. There will still probably be a mark, but it will be far less prominent, and can probably be easily removed digitally. Mistake #2: The paint bled into another color Mistake #3: Splotchy or uneven color 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. Free Art Lesson: How to Study Human Anatomy for the Artist. Anatomy is About Rhythm. Creating Art with a Purpose, Lee Hammond Artist, Volunteering with Art. I’ve always been service-oriented. Since I was young, I liked the feeling of doing volunteer work, such as trick-or-treating for UNICEF, instead of going door to door just for the candy.
I liked to make things and sell them, especially if it was something that would help others. One summer, when I was about 9, I made handwoven potholders with one of those little square looms. I placed them, neatly arranged, in one of my dad’s shirt boxes, and went door to door selling them for a quarter. I obviously didn’t do it for the money, because what I did make, I spent on more loopers to make more potholders, and then I gave them away as gifts. I just liked making them, and the fact that others not only liked them, but would also use them.
Panther drawing in colored pencil for the Friends of the Florida Panther Organization I recently attended a wonderful meeting here in Florida for the “Friends of the Florida Panther” group. Having a calling as an artist is a true gift. Until next time! Can 10,000 hours of practice make you an expert? 28 February 2014Last updated at 20:16 ET By Ben Carter BBC News A much-touted theory suggests that practising any skill for 10,000 hours is sufficient to make you an expert. No innate talent? Not a problem. You just practice. One man who decided to test it is Dan McLaughlin, 34, a former commercial photographer from Portland, Oregon. "The idea came in 2009. Far from being discouraged by his apparent lack of any natural talent for golf, Dan and his brother started talking about what it would take to become a professional golfer. "When I announced I was going to quit my job, my co-workers started bringing books in and I read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, Geoff Colvin's Talent is Overrated and The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle," he says.
Continue reading the main story Dan's plan The 10,000-hours concept can be traced back to a 1993 paper written by Anders Ericsson, a Professor at the University of Colorado, called The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance.