After my fun painting on Wednesday with the salt to create snow - here's how it plays out on a card! Check it out on the MFT blog. ...
Tips for adding salt to watercolor
I've been playing a bit with salt and watercolor lately - and I thought I'd share a few things I learned! Including what NOT to do. ...
Art Impressions Slimline WC: Spooky Door (or winter door?)
I was pretty sure this was a fall card. Til I added stars. You can weigh in and decide which season it's for! I did try to make a funky scary shadow - ...
Branching Out in Watercolor
I've been pondering how to improve my teaching skills....and the new Level 2 Watercolor class called Branching Out is one of those attempts! I tend ...
Pink flowers, a tiny bird, and the studio’s newest rainbow
No video today, but I have 2 cards and a rainbow to share because there's a little sale at Colorado Craft Company this weekend...and you might need ...
Painting Whales – Fountain Pen Inks and bleach
A while back I did a sketch oAhoy there! A while back I did a pen and ink drawing of a whale in my sketchbook that I flipped past recently - and ...
Creating interesting blends: wet-in-wet watercolor
Mixing color in a palette might work to create a hue you need….but oh how much more interesting is it when colors mix on the paper themselves! Create ...
Comparing 5 stamping inks for watercolor
I recently had a question hit me about a little swoosh of watercolor that behaved wrong —which led me down the rocky road of testing. Ha! But for ...
Rocks and ripples: Combatting Watercolor Exhaustion!
Do you ever get just plain old TIRED - either after painting or doing some kind of art, or even worse, in the middle? I had that experience ...
Multicolor watercolor wash (inspired by illustrator Jon Klassen)
It's time to celebrate another children's illustrator: this time, Jon Klassen! I've loved some of his other books but today chose to use The Rock from ...