iWATERCOLORS & THE PAINTING LOFT

WELCOME TO iWATERCOLORS A sharing community for Watercolors Artist and the ones that will be.

You may find here:


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• FRIENDS :ART connects people, creative opens the hearth.Find friends and invite your friends to share with you your passion for painting.
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TUTORIALS: Over 200 links to step by step demos done by artists in the web. You tube classified by themes Watercolors demos and many more
• FORUM: Meet here your painting friends and open discussions.
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REQUEST HELP OR CRITIQUES: If you want to improve this is the place. Request in the Forum for tips and advice. Here is the place where you can advance and improve.
• PHOTOS for to paint as reference: You will find here a nice collection of reference photos waiting for to be painted and you may shares yours as well.( Free only for painting purposes)
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• CHALLENGES Every 2 Month a Challenge !
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A BEGINNERS SECTION with all the BASICS and Step by Step Exercises for to help you to learn. Coming soon!

MEMBERSHIP:

"The Painting Loft"  is free but exists thanks to DONATIONS  made by Members.  Members having made a donation can put a price to their paintings under their description.

You may also contribute by making a the Step by Step demos from your paintings.

 Note: All step by Step demos showed in this Forum are under copyright not works painted after may be sold or printed without the written permission from the Author and Artist!

A single, Wonderful, Fantastic or I love it motivates you and your friends more than enything else for to start painting the next picture and is better than any of your sekf analyses you could make.

NEVER FORGET:

Don't forget a suggestion or critique is not a critiques to your person or way to be is just a friendly observation from an online painting friend so that it may help you to achieve your painting  goals quicker and be happy that someone around the world took its time for to see longer than 4 seconds ( average in most online communities) your picture.

PAINTING POCKET GUIDELINES

1. Focal Point 1/3 over the edge, 1/3 up from the bottom or 1/3 down from the top ( not exact ).
2. Focal point has high contrast, intense colours.
3. Make edges of objects interesting with many things going in and out, up and down.
4. Avoid shapes that are or can fit into a circle, square or equilateral triangle. Make things wider than tall or taller than wide.
5. Balance soft and hard edgesUse all three textures in a painting: rough, smooth and soft.
6. Make colours mostly cool with a little warm or mostly warm with a little cool.

   A tip that I got from Craig Bennet . I hope it helps you as it has helped me.