Join me as I share my experience for my first official urban sketching experience and share my travel art kit and stealth sketching tips.
My First Time Urban Sketching People
Colorful Cow Watercolor
Watch me paint a whimsical and expressive, colorful cow watercolor painting that is quick and easy and uses just 4 colors.
How to Make a Journal Cover with Fabric & Wallpaper
Learn how to make a bucket journal cover with leftover wallpaper and fabric- or really any two similar materials.
Buckets of Happiness: Transform Your Bullet Journal into a Bucket Journal
Journal your way to a happier new year by balancing your happiness buckets!
Freehand Drawing: The Biggest Beginner Mistake
Learn how to spot and avoid the biggest mistake beginners make when drawing freehand.
Sketching with Perfect Proportions
In part 2 of this series, I demonstrate how to use a grid to help draw almost any image with perfect proportions. This is especially helpful when your reference image is detailed or complex (like a seated figure) or when you are making large scale art.
Little Trick Artists Use: Sketch Grid for Perfect Proportions
Learn how to add a sketch grid to any image on your iPad (photos, screenshots, Sktchy app, etc.) to help you sketch, draw and paint art with perfect proportions.
Learn to Make Thick Creamy Kefir
Kefir is a living food full of healthy probiotics. Learn how easy it is to make this low-lactose, yogurt-like treat in your own kitchen.
Watercolor Portrait Painting with just 3 Colors
watercolor portrait In this 3 color/3 minute video, you’ll see my painting process including multiple watercolor glazes, pencil hatching and final touch ups. The paint colors I used were Burnt Sienna, Payne’s Gray and Alizarin Crimson.
Portrait & Figure Painting with Watercolor & Ink
Figure Painting In this fast motion video, you’ll see my painting process, from the initial pencil cross hatching I add to my sketch, through the multiple watercolor glazes, ink hatching and final touch ups. The narrated, real-time watercolor lesson for this piece is AVAILABLE NOW. Links to the lesson and materials list are on the home page: https://bluequarry.com.