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Creative Color wheel star made with watercolors

Make a Creative Color Wheel Design from Scratch

March 9, 2022February 12, 2021 by Camera & a Canvas

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 art supplies, brushes, paint, paper

Watercolor Supplies for Beginners

February 11, 2021January 14, 2021 by Camera & a Canvas

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, 2021February 10, 2021 by Camera & a Canvas

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 by Camera & a Canvas

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
Lackawanna State Park Colored Pencil Drawing

Beginning an Art Journey

July 31, 2017 by Camera & a Canvas

Since starting this website, it’s been my goal to post a piece of artwork for all the places I’ve been in the world. A good, unique compliment to a travel blog I thought. However I’ve found that one of the …

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Categories Artwork Tags art, artwork, colored pencil drawings, oil paintings, sketchbook

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