1. The answer depends on your personality and the result you want to achieve. There are papers with grain, there are permissive papers, there are s...

2. I’m the first to say that good tools make good artists. Yet while you can buy $20 brushes made with luxurious animal hair, I tend to find...

3. I paint on a slightly inclined plane. When attending watercolour events I discovered that many professional artists do this, especially those wh...

4. Depending on the pigment used, each colour has different properties. For example, Turquoise blue stains easily, which means it’s hard to l...

5. When making those finishing touches, I use coloured pencils. They are ideal for highlighting certain areas or creating precise edges. There are...

6. The magic of watercolour resides in one’s ability to make it dance between wet and dry areas. Working wet on wet means you paint on a wet...

7. Painting accurate volumes can trip up artists, whatever their experience level. One’s attention is taken up by the style and the splashes...

8. When I paint lively portraits, I don’t want to overdo the background. Details are unnecessary here and can even be counterproductive. The...

9. The natural white colour of the paper is the purest white I’ll ever get. Before applying any paint on the surface I identify all white are...

10. I recommend trying this simple and fun watercolour technique: prepare a wash with lots of water and a fair amount of pigment, then apply it and...