Watercoloring

Exploring Environments

To truly make strong backgrounds and environments, you must first learn a few basics. Build Your Glazes When developing an environment...

Creating Skin Tones - Part 2

Applying the darker tones (listed below) to the dried faces. Now that we know the back bone of how to go about choosing and adding our...

Creating Skin Tones - Part 1

There are hundreds of posts, videos, articles, and books on recipes for this topic. My approach isn't just making recipes and laying them...

How to Start with Reference Photos for Your Fairy Art

Big title because it’s an important step! Let’s start getting into the nitty gritty of creating an imaginary ’being’ on paper. Let’s take...

Wet on to Dry Color Wheels

When painting wet on to dry you are charging your brush with paint mixed with water, and take it to dry paper. About 3/4ths of my...

Explore Watercolor's Possibilities

Begin painting with the intent to learn the characteristics of the watercolor. Don't begin with expectations.

How to Fill Up Your Watercolor Palette

Find the best practices on how to fill up your watercolor palette using pans and tubes.

Start Better

Best watercolor supplies for beginning artists. Sara Burrier's picks for fairy art.