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Creative Color wheel star made with watercolors

Make a Creative Color Wheel Design from Scratch

March 9, 2022

Creating color wheels are great practice for color mixing, as well as if you’re a beginner wanting to understand color theory. If you want to take it up a step and have a little bit more fun, consider making your …

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Categories Artwork, Beginner, Tutorials Tags art, beginners, tutorials
watercolor swatches, studies

Mixing Watercolors with a Limited Color Palette

September 3, 2021

Understanding how colors work and how to mix them to get exactly the color you want is a very important skill in painting. Mixing watercolors, or any kind of paint, in the beginning can be a challenge. But, with a …

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watercolor art supplies, brushes, paint, paper

Watercolor Supplies for Beginners

February 11, 2021

So you want to learn to use watercolors, but where to start? What kind of paper should you use, and paints? Are those cheap ones like you used as a kid good enough? What about brushes? Well hopefully I can …

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Categories Artwork, Beginner, Tutorials Tags art, artwork, beginners, supplies, watercolors
Watercolor color wheels

Create your own Watercolor Color Wheel!

February 11, 2021

If you’re new to painting, one of the most important things is learning about color. How they relate to one another, what happens when you mix them, what colors go good together and why. This article won’t go deep into …

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Categories Artwork, Beginner, Tutorials Tags art, beginners, color wheel, tutorials
handmade Watercolor swatches

Make your own Watercolor Swatches!

January 29, 2021

Create watercolor swatches to help you to see exactly what your paints look like on paper, and size them to fit in your palette box so you can take them with you on the go!

Categories Artwork, Beginner, Tutorials Tags art, artwork, beginners, tutorials, watercolors
Logo Design 101, a Free Guide to help you design a logo

How to design a logo

January 13, 2021

So, you’ve got your brand name picked out for your business or website, but now you need a logo designed! How do you design a logo? Where do you start? Well, if you don’t have much in the way of …

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