Professional Photographer v.s. Me

What a difference between the photos I take of my artwork with a camera, iPad or phone and the ones taken by a professional art photographer.  Dennis Campbell took a great deal of care with lighting and colour while photographing, and also later on his computer. ...

Isolating Areas

You may not like the whole painting but by isolating areas with a mat or strips of white paper, you might find smaller paintings that you love.

Rubbing Alcohol on Watercolour

Rubbing Alcohol flung onto wet watercolour dives through the paint and causes it to ripple outward in fascinating ways.

Gum Arabic

I was told years and years ago that your dried watercolour paintings could have the same intensity that they did when wet if you applied a coat of Gum Arabic.  It was only yesterday that I tried it for the first time on these samples.  I hope that you can see that the...

Gelli Plate 2

This print was done in a few stages.  I painted the plate, printed on the paper, and then I painted on the plate again and printed over the first one.  I used a piece of deli paper on top of the print in order to rub the print, taking off some of the excess...