Snowy Pine Tree Card - Great Practice in a Small Doable Size
Pick the Best Colors for the Results You Want
Pine Tree Card - Great Practice and Nice Holiday Card
This lesson shows how using different blue shades affects the look of your card. A pretty blue, like Phthalo Blue, makes a prettier card. A more earthy blue, like Ultramarine Blue, will results in a more realistic landscape. Three different examples are shown and check out the student paintings to help spark your creativity.
Whatever look you're going for, working small and painting a bunch of similar card will help spark your creativity AND thrill your family and friends
when they receive a hand painting holiday card.
The best colors for painting greens and how to apply those colors so they can mix on the paper is demonstrated, and can improve your trees in every painting to come.
Happy Painting!
Your Instructor
Hi, I'm Deb Watson - a self taught artist and long time watercolor teacher
My story is simple.
I loved drawing from childhood, but was discouraged from art as a waste of time. So, I became a nurse, worked at a lot of hospitals and raised a family. But I kept painting.
Over time, I became better at the realism I loved, and just kept working toward improving through painting and self-study. I've always enjoyed painting scenes from my life and small town community (which I call my Small Town America series).
My paintings are not usually famous or majestic subjects, often they're just everyday stuff I see around. But I see so much beauty there, and show it to the rest of the world by painting it.
Now, my watercolors have been in exhibits and won awards across the nation. Yet, it's when my art connects me to other people that it's really done what I wanted, and teaching certainly does that!
Happy Painting.