- Using Intuitive Color in Watercolor - Part I by Laurel Heart
- Using Intuitive Color in Watercolor - Part II by Laurel Heart
- Exaggerating Color in Watercolor by Laurel Heart
- Mitchell Albala - Part 2 Gallery Talk at Lisa Harris Gallery
- Painting With a Low Key Triad in Watercolor
- Watercolor demonstration by Marek Yanai - Portrait of Tzahi
- Painting with Light by Don Andrews
Using Imaginative Color
YouTube Tutorials
Using Digital Tools to help with Watercolor Painting
Under Construction
Video Tutorials
Video Tutorials
- Using ArtRage for Plein Air Studies and Planning Compositions
- Creating a Strong Focal Point in Watercolor
- Laurel Hart demonstrates an mobile app that is no longer available. However, the new mobile app called Notanizer available for Android and iOS for about $2.00.
- Notanizer for Android
- Notanizer App for iOS
- Painting a Notan Watercolor Portrait
- Trying out 'Concepts' App - Watercolour Sketch
Notan: Japanese Design Principle of Light and Dark
Web page Tutorials
Notan: The Dark-Light Principle of Design
You can view/download a PDF from the Gutenberg Project here
You can buy it from Amazon here:
- Notan - Exploring Shape and Composition by Mitch Albala
- A Guide to Notan: The What, Why and How by Barry John Raybould
- Notan Painting: What it is and How to Use it
- Quick Tip on Notan by Kelley Sanford
Tutorial Videos
- Creating a Strong Focal Point in Watercolor by Laurel Hart
- Notan - Exploring Shape and Composition by Mitchell Albala
- Painting Lesson - Notan by Richard Robinson
- Part1: Shapes and Two Value Notan Drawings by Malcolm Dewey
- Jane Appleby - Lighthouse Park - Notan Sketch by Jane Appleby
- Quick Tip 11 - Notan Lift-Out by Dianne Mize
- Environment Design Week01 Demo: Notan and Composition Design by Amit Dutta
- Quick Tip 44 - Composing Notans by Dianne Mize
Books
You can buy it from Amazon here:
Sketching with the Brush, Growing Silhouette Shapes and Drawing Shadows
Marc Taro Holmes
Montreal artist, Marc Taro Holmes is the author of three books on art-making.
- The Urban Sketcher: Techniques for Seeing and Drawing on Location (2014)
- Designing Creatures and Characters: How to Build and Artist’s Portfolio for Video Games, Film, Animation and More (2016)
- Direct Watercolor (2018)
Marc has been a correspondent and volunteer art instructor with urbansketchers.org, and, served as a board member and volunteer editor from 2009-2016. He was elected to the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolor in December of 2016, recently winning their Sloan Award (2016), and CSPWC Second Prize Award (2017), and most recently, being juried into an exhibition-exchange with the Société Française de l’Aquarelle. (2018).
Marc graduated in 1995 with a BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary Alberta, and has worked for studios including Electronic Arts, Microsoft, and Disney.
Website
Video Tutorials
- Sketching with the Brush
- Growing Silhouette Shapes and Drawing Shadows with Marc Taro Holmes
- Manchester Urban Sketchers Symposium
- French Church Painting by Anne-Laure Jacquart
- Sketching with the Brush / Watercolour Figures by Trevor Waugh
- Without Sketch Landscape Watercolor - Relax Time by Korean painter Nam-il
- Butterflies, Flowers w/ Intuitive Brush Strokes, no sketching by Angela Fehr
- Colour Washed Tulip Exercise Watercolor paper by Angela Fehr
PDFs
Book Review of Marc's first Book
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