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Jul 21
1 min

Plein-Air Watercolors

Some recommendations for beginner plein-air painters like myself. Plein Air Supplies Everything must be small. Collapsible cup, 4 brushes...

Cris Gordy

Jun 26
1 min

In A Western Town: A visit to an abandoned Hollywood film set in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Brief discussion on how to add watercolor textures with your brush. There are several ways to add texture in watercolors: with a dry tiss...

Cris Gordy

Apr 15
2 min

Painting with the Masters:Portraits

Charles Reid's high key paintings. Paint people in a loose, expressive style. Lesson Objectives: sketch a dressed figure, paint high-key w...

Cris Gordy

Apr 10
2 min

Still life: Fresh Peppers

Practice edge control and unmixed watercolors. Lesson Objectives: Practice edge control. Use unmixed colors such as lemon yellow, Hansa y...

Cris Gordy

Apr 7
1 min

Still Life: Vitamin C - Oranges

In this lesson you will learn how to control edges.

Cris Gordy

Apr 5
1 min

Paint a Waterfall and Rocks

Learning Objectives: saving the whites or leaving the paper without paint. Change values on rocks to indicate the change in planes. Sketc...

Cris Gordy

Apr 5
1 min

Monochroma - One color

Monochromatic studies with Payne's Gray watercolor.

Cris Gordy

Apr 5
1 min

Sumi-e

Sumi-e is the art of ink wash painting. In this class students use watercolors, typically Payne’s gray or Burnt Sienna, with Chinese brus...

Cris Gordy

Apr 5
1 min

Student Work

Simple subjects. Flowers, rocks, trees, birds, clouds, mountains are all part of the repertoire.

Cris Gordy

Apr 5
1 min

Concertina Book Making

Make your own accordion book, or concertina. These books of watercolor flowers make a nice souvenir, or postcard. Possible themes: sharks...

Cris Gordy

Apr 3
1 min

Still Life: Going Bananas

In this step-by-step lesson you'll learn wet-into-wet technique and how to separate objects by value and color.

Cris Gordy

Apr 3
2 min

Painting With Masters

Recreate the work of watercolor master Zoltan Szabo. Lesson objectives: wet-into-wet and wet on dry techniques. Atmospheric perspective. ...

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