Lighthouses are an easy and popular subject for watercolor and this tutorial will give you an introduction to many basic painting techniques - scraping rocks, sponging foliage, smooth background...

Teapot with light background. Beginners will be amazed at their watercolor still life when they paint this teapot step by step. Shading is the key and concentrating on it first makes realism easy....

Paint a realistic boat and reflection with watercolor without overdoing it in this simple landscape step by step. Paint your far away trees quick and easy and add reflections with the same color so...

Anyone can paint watercolor portraits and this tutorial will cover all the essential elements to jump start beginners into successful watercolor portrait painting - mixing skin tones, add shading to...

While color is vitally important for painting flowers/zinnia and butterflies in watercolor, it is actually value and depth that creates watercolor realism. By working in layers, artists create an...

Country roads are a good watercolor subject but how do you manage all the stuff? Where the objects meet and/or overlap, painting can be tricky. With easy techniques, like working back to front and...