Wet-on-Wet Watercolor Flowers: Master Timing & Soft Edges
Learn to paint loose watercolor flowers using wet-on-wet techniques. Discover moisture control, pigment consistency, soft edges, and expressive layering.
Mixed Media Flower Painting: Acrylics, Collage & Loose Brushwork
Learn mixed media flower painting using acrylics, collage paper, and a rejected painting. Explore bold color, loose brushwork, and expressive layers.
Loose Interior Still Life Painting With Acrylics
Explore loose acrylic interior still life painting with expressive brushwork, colorful grays, shifting compositions, and creative experimentation.
Coca-Cola Bottle Drawing Progressions: Learn to Draw Looser
One bottle, several interpretations. Watch how careful graphite studies develop into bold charcoal and red pencil drawings as the pace picks up.
Classic Chevy Drawing Progressions: From Structure to Loose Marks
Learn the bones, then take some liberties. A 12-minute classic Chevy drawing session moving from graphite construction to colored pencil and bold charcoal.
Coastal House Drawing Study: Connecting with Your Subject
One coastal photograph, one interesting house, and no masterpiece required. A relaxed drawing session exploring rooflines, shadows, and possibilities.
Fixing a Mixed Media Painting Composition: A Harbor Scene
This canvas went from mixing palette to sunflowers to harbor scene. But moving the pier and changing the boat finally made the composition click.
Mixed Media Landscape Painting from an Old Mixing Palette
This landscape started weeks before I knew I was painting it. Watch me turn a paint-covered canvas and random collage papers into a mixed media experiment.
How to Paint Loose Watercolor Faces: A Simple Practice Exercise
Start with patches of color, then find the faces. This watercolor exercise explores simple features, unexpected colors, and knowing when to leave things alone.
How to Shade with Watercolors: Beginner Tutorial
Shading with watercolor comes down to value, water, and timing. These simple ball-and-cube studies show how to turn flat shapes into believable forms.
Abstract Fish Painting with Collage Paper and Acrylic
A failed watercolor, some paint-covered scraps, and a little blue acrylic. Here’s how I turned studio leftovers into a loose mixed media fish painting.
Four Paintings, One Landscape: An Unexpected Discovery
Explore a creative mixed media landscape experiment using four separate paintings to build one composition. Discover the freedom of unexpected results.