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3 Ways to Pump Up Your Paintings using Texture in watercolor

3 Ways to Pump Up Your Paintings using Texture in watercolor

Thyrsie CahoonSeptember 15, 2022

Achieve using shapes in your sketchbook

Achieve using shapes in your sketchbook

Thyrsie CahoonJune 17, 2022

3 types of travel and 3 ways to pack for a successful watercolor painting vacation

3 types of travel and 3 ways to pack for a successful watercolor painting vacation

Thyrsie CahoonJune 1, 2022Comment

6 Creative Ideas for Painting Pets

6 Creative Ideas for Painting Pets

Thyrsie CahoonApril 1, 2022

3 Tips to a Successful Design in your Painting with Direction

3 Tips to a Successful Design in your Painting with Direction

Thyrsie CahoonMarch 15, 2022Comment

Use Line to Design Watercolor

Use Line to Design Watercolor

Thyrsie CahoonMarch 3, 2022 Comment

Five reasons a painting retreat can boost your creativity

Five reasons a painting retreat can boost your creativity

how to, sketchbook, watercolorThyrsie CahoonFebruary 3, 2022retreat, watercolor sketchbook, watercolor journalComment

How do you get more impact with text for a powerful painting?

How do you get more impact with text for a powerful painting?

sketchbook, watercolor, paintingThyrsie CahoonOctober 30, 2021Luna, Moth, Luna Moth, purple, yellowComment

Five sure ways to improve creative inspiration and eliminate the fear of your watercolor.

Five sure ways to improve creative inspiration and eliminate the fear of your watercolor.

Everybody has to start somewhere

Thyrsie CahoonJune 1, 2021

How to Follow the Yellow Brick Road to an Attractive Painting

How to Follow the Yellow Brick Road to an Attractive Painting

How to use yellow to your advantage in a painting

how to, sketchbook, watercolor, paintingThyrsie CahoonMay 7, 2021watercolorjournal.comyellow, art, watercolor, watercolour, watercolor journal, watercolour journal, sketchbook, Carol CarterComment

How to Create Striking Watercolors with Correct Value in your watercolor journal

How to Create Striking Watercolors with Correct Value in your watercolor journal

For years, I didn’t make progress.

painting, sketchbook, watercolor, how toThyrsie CahoonApril 15, 2021color, value, learningComment

How keeping a watercolor journal saved my art skills and my sanity

How keeping a watercolor journal saved my art skills and my sanity

Daddy said, “If you do art for a living, you’ll have to teach school.” I didn’t want to teach, so I took dad’s advice and didn’t choose a full—time art career. Instead, I took the safe route—a dependable job in libraries.

Thyrsie CahoonFebruary 26, 2021

When you see what watercolor can do for a sketchbook, you will want to paint

When you see what watercolor can do for a sketchbook, you will want to paint

Face it. If your sketchbook contains only drawings, you could use an upgrade.

watercolor, how to, drawing, painting, sketchbookThyrsie CahoonJanuary 29, 2021watercolorjournal.comwatercolor, sketchbook, how to, watercolor journal, watercolor sketchbook, how to paintComment

Banana Plant

Banana Plant

Banana Tree Blooming along Captiva Island, Florida. These trees are so lovely, I wish we could grow them in Arkansas.

flowers, sea, watercolorThyrsie CahoonSeptember 24, 2019watercolorjournal.combanana, watercolor, florida, flower, flowers, fruit, tropical, ocean, sea, gulf

Found Objects

Found Objects

Found Objects

Thyrsie CahoonJuly 13, 2019beach, found objects, ocean, sea, shells, vacation, watercolor, Sanibel Island, Florida Comment

Color Harmony

flowers, watercolor, still lifeThyrsie CahoonJune 18, 2019Van Gogh, Color Harmony, Emerald Green, GladiolusComment

Iris

Iris

Iris in bloom

flowers, watercolorThyrsie CahoonApril 9, 2019Iris, flower, purple, Flower, Flowers, flowersComment

Cheerful Glads

Cheerful Glads

Cheerful Gladiolus

flowersThyrsie CahoonApril 5, 2019watercolorjournal.comgladiolus, flowers, redflowers

Sketch made in Buoux, France

Sketch made in Buoux, France

France, landscape, Luberon, Provence, watercolorThyrsie CahoonJuly 18, 2017

Ice Cream

Ice Cream

France, News, still lifeThyrsie CahoonJuly 14, 2017France, ice cream, Lourve, still life, watercolor