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The Watercolor Medium

With Thanks to Mort Solberg - Perspectives No. 454

Oliver Romeo - Perspectives No. 440

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Rose Delight - A Watercolor Demonstration by John Hulsey: Watch this gorgeous rose magically appear as John Hulsey paints it in watercolor.

Casein - An Overlooked Medium

A Century of Watercolor - Perspectives No. 418

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Voices of Experience - A Step-by-Step Plein Air Watercolor by Herman Pekel

Voices of Experience - An Interview with Brienne Brown

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In the Footsteps of Van Gogh - Part II: In the footsteps of Van Gogh - Part II

Voices of Experience - An Interview with Christopher Leeper

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Voices of Experience - An Interview with Pablo Rub

Art of the Bird

On Reflection: Learn to paint water reflections from the Masters
in our article On Reflection.

Consumed by Fire: Consumed by Fire: A Gallery of Art Inspired by Flames

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Voices of Experience - An Interview with Frank Eber

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Art Among the Poppies, Part II - It Just Gets Better and Better: Art Among the Poppies - Part II

It Just Gets Better and Better

Art Among the Poppies - A Watercolor Painting Holiday in Tuscany: Art Among the Poppies
A Watercolor Painting Holiday in Tuscany

Is Travel Abroad Still Worth It? - Perspectives No. 349

Customs - Perspectives No. 348

Voices of Experience - An Interview with Thomas Schaller

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A Painting Holiday in Tuscany: In celebration of our upcoming watercolor painting workshop to Tuscany in June, we decided to share with you some of the interesting and beautiful places we are planning to visit and paint!

Weathering the Weather - Perspectives No. 325

Timing is Everything - Perspectives No. 321: Save

Nocturne - LaRoque Gageac Step-by-Step Watercolor Demonstration: Learn the key steps to painting a successful
Nocturne landscape in watercolor.SaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave

Soaring - A Step-by-Step Watercolor Demonstration: Discover how to recapture your plein air
inspiration and build a successful watercolor.SaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave

How Edges Make a Painting Sing: One of the most important techniques a painter can learn to recognize and employ is the artistic placement of edges. Knowing how and where to create a certain type of edge in a painting is essential to successful painting.

Shall I Compare Thee? - Perspectives No. 308: SaveSaveSaveSave

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Watercolor Brushes - The Real 411: Everything You Need to Know About Choosing a Watercolor BrushSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave

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Gerald Fritzler Interview - Excerpt

The Power of Middle Values - Excerpt: Improve your paintings instantly by learning to recognize and deploy middle values
for powerful impact in this informative article by David Rankin.

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Watercolor Mixing Secrets: Learn to mix watercolors like the pros do!SaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave

Voices of Experience - An Interview with Dan Mondloch: An Interview with
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Watching You Watching Me - A Step by Step Watercolor Demonstration: All watercolor papers are not created equal!
Follow along as John paints and then repaints this full
sheet studio watercolor in a step-by-step demonstration.

A Master of Watercolor - Perspectives No. 269: Save

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Voices of Experience - An Interview with Gerald Fritzler: An Interview with
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The Power of Middle Values in Painting: The key to creating any successful landscape painting is
the masterful placement of values in space.
By decoding the secrets of the masters, David Rankin shows you how
to use his simple techniques to put them to work for you!

November Light - A Live-Action Video Watermedia Demonstration

The Big Picture - Perspectives No. 263

Understanding Light in the Landscape Part III: Free yourself from the tyranny of poor weather and bad lighting!
In Part III, we show you how to use the powerful gamut mask tool to
easily re-color your world in any situation.

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Voices of Experience - An Interview with Stan Miller: Voices of Experience:
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A Painted Life - Perspectives No. 249

The Weight of History: A Step-by-Step Watercolor Demonstration

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Mind Over What Matters - Perspectives No. 233

An Artist's Tour of Provence - Part III: Our Artist's Tour of Provence continues in Part III. We visit Arles, Les Baux, Avignon, Chateauneuf du Pape and Carcassonne. Travel painting at its best!

An Artist's Tour of Provence - Part II: Our Artist's Tour continues as we explore
the most beautiful villages in Provence.

Painting Christmas - Perspectives No. 217

An Artist's Tour of Provence - Part I: If you love France, then you'll love our
Artist's Tour of Provence.
Travel painting at its best!

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Granulation - Perspectives No. 205

The Three Amigos - Perspectives No. 195: Save

Don't Tear Your Hair Out - Perspectives No. 192

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The Artist's Road Watercolor Test: The Artist's Road Watercolor Test

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Why Watercolor? We Ask Ten Top Painters: Learn why you too can learn to paint in
watercolor from these top masters
of the medium.

A Prairie Storm - A Live-Action Video Watercolor Painting Demonstration

Step-by-Step Watercolor Painting Demonstration - Poppy Fields near Ventabren by John Hulsey: Poppy Fields Near Ventabren
A Step-by-Step Watercolor Painting Demonstration
by John Hulsey

Voices of Experience - An Interview with Mark Mehaffey: Voices of Experience:
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Painting in the Garden of Eden

Voices of Experience - An Interview with Mort Solberg: Voices of Experience:
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Understanding Light in the Landscape Part II: Mastering color casts is the key to limiting a palette and controlling mood in a painting. Part II of this series shows how to identify and use them to make your paintings better.
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Painting Winter - Exploiting the Winter Landscape

A Plein Air Painting Trip to Dubois, Wyoming: Free. Take an Armchair Tour of
the Scenic Dubois, Wyoming
Landscape.

Plein Air Painting in the Wild Wild West: Join us as we spend a week painting, teaching and exploring the wonderful mountain scenery that surrounds the cowboy town of Dubois, Wyoming.

Understanding Light in the Landscape - The Carlson Theory of Angles: Understanding Light in the Landscape:
The Carlson Theory of Angles

A gallery of New Mexico paintings: Free. We hope that this gallery of paintings in oil, watercolor and pastel will inspire you as well.

The Ultimate Still Life Table.: Everything you need to know to make your still life paintings more engaging, dramatic and powerful.

A Gallery of Lowcountry Watercolor Paintings by John Hulsey: Free. Check out the South Carolina Lowcountry
with this gallery of watercolors by John Hulsey

A Plein Air Painting Trip to the Lowcountry: Charleston, South Carolina: Take a painting trip to beautiful Charleston, South Carolina, and explore its diverse painting opportunities, art galleries and southern charm.

Desperately Seeking Homer - Perspectives No. 37

Life on the Hudson: Life on the Hudson
Following in the Footsteps of the Hudson River School

Watercolor Painting Materials List for Workshops

Painting Clouds - Part II - Perspectives No. 30

Voices of Experience - An Interview with Frank LaLumia: Voices of Experience:
Frank LaLumia

A Gallery of Cloud Paintings: Get an Instant Education in Painting Clouds
Effectively in this Rogue's Gallery of Cloud Paintings.

Painting in the Dordogne River Valley of France: The Best of Dordogne - Domme, La Roque Gageac and Les Jardins de Marqueyssac, including a visit to the Paleolithic cave art at Lascaux.SaveSaveSaveSaveSave

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - A Primer on Night Painting: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - A Primer on Night Painting
Learn how the night can provide rich painting opportunities for the intrepid artist in this informative, illustrated article.Save

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The Art of Seeing - Part II: The Red Plaid Dilemma - Perspectives No. 8: Save

The Art of Seeing - Part 1: Illusion or Reality - Perspectives No. 7: Save

Adventure, Inspiration and Tragedy at Sperry Lodge, Glacier National Park: Free. Enjoy this example of the type of in-depth articles available to members.
An artist residency in Glacier National Park takes a tragic turn as the artists make their way up to a back-country chalet.

Painting in the Land of Enchantment - Perspectives No. 3

Finding Gold Along the Rio Grande: Free
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The artists travel to northern New Mexico in search of painting gold and find it along the Rio Grande.

The Ultimate Backpack: The Ultimate Backpack shows how to pack the lightest weight gear for hiking and traveling to paint en plein air.Save

Gore Creek I - Developing a large studio oil painting from watercolor sketches done on location: Free. Gore Creek I -Developing a large studio oil painting from watercolor sketches done on-location at Gore Creek in Vail, Colorado. Includes a ten-minute step-by-step video!

Step-by-Step Watercolor Painting Demonstration, Through the Trees, Lourmarin by John Hulsey: Free
Through the Trees, Lourmarin,
"Learn to Develop a Point of View" in this Step-by-Step watercolor painting demonstration on location in Lourmarin, France, by John Hulsey

Step-by-Step watercolor plein air painting demonstration, Le Pont d'Avignon, by John Hulsey: Le Pont d'Avignon
Learn the principle of how to "Break it Down into Shapes" in this Step-by-Step plein air watercolor painting demonstration at Avignon, France, by John Hulsey

Step-by-Step Watercolor Painting Demonstration - A Votre Sante - by John Hulsey: Free
A Votre Sante,
a step-by-step watercolor painting demonstration at Rousillon, France, by John Hulsey.

Step-by-Step Watercolor Painting Demonstration - The Fountain Cleaner - by John Hulsey: The Fountain Cleaner,
a step-by-step watercolor painting demonstration from Aix-en-Provence, France, by John Hulsey

A Checklist for Painting Overseas: Knowing what not to take is just as important as knowing what to take when you travel overseas to paint. This valuable checklist makes it simple.

Painting in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: Free
Enjoy this mini Tale from the Artist's Road in Rocky Mountain National Park, in which John and Ann share their recent painting adventures during John's artist's residency there.

Traveling Cross-Country with Watercolor (pdf): Free
John Hulsey and Ann Trusty chronicled their plein air painting adventures as they drove across the United States in their new Westphalia mobile painting studio "Van-Go". (Previously published in American Artist Magazine and presented here with permission.)

The Power of the Sketchbook (pdf): Free
Capturing inspiration in the sketchbook. My sketchbook paintings serve many functions, but the most important is to transport me to the moment of inspiration, so I can re-create their spontaneity and freshness in my larger, more finished studio pieces. (Previously published in Watercolor Magazine and presented here with permission).

In the Footsteps of Cezanne (pdf), Painting in Provence: Free
Wonderful French Provencal villages, artistic camaraderie, and great food and local wines all combined to make John's week-long teaching workshop there a roaring success. (Previously published in Watercolor Magazine and presented here with permission.)

The Forces of Nature (pdf), Painting in the Low Country of South Carolina: Free
Included in this article are some of John's hand-written field notes which reveal his methods for overcoming the many challenges Nature throws in front of the plein air painter while working outdoors in the Low Country of South Carolina. (Previously published in Watercolor Magazine and reprinted here with permission).

Painting in the Range of Light (pdf), Yosemite National Park, California: Free
John and Ann take off on another painting adventure in their rolling studio "Van-Go" - this time for a month's stay as artist-in-residence in California's Yosemite National Park. (Previously published in Watercolor Magazine and presented here with permission.)

Painting in Rocky Mountain National Park: John and Ann share their painting adventures in Rocky Mountain National Park, where as artist-in-residence, he spent two weeks exploring, hiking and painting.

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Nocturnes - A Primer on Night Painting

Filled with inspirational examples by the masters of nightime painting, this little book is sure to fire up your creative energies. Never tried painting at night? We show you how it's done with a step-by-step-oil demo and a tale of night painting in the wilds of Rocky Mountain National Park. The Primer on Night Painting - Nocturnes is a 7 x 7" PDF download with 40 pages of text and images. It includes a gallery of paintings by masters of the nocturne, information to inspire and encourage you in your plein air nocturne painting, an illustrated step-by-step demo and tips for working in pastel and oil. Also available in a softcover edition. Check out the tools and other products that we use in our own art and travels in The Artist's Road Store. We only offer things for sale that we enthusiastically believe in.