Angela Fehr Watercolour | World Watercolor Month: Waking Up Creativity With Play (Wax Resist Technique) @angelfehr | Uploaded July 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
All through World Watercolor Month I'll be posting weekly watercolor lessons designed to help you craft your own thriving creative practice. I'm painting along with the World Watercolor Month daily prompts and sharing my own perspective on how to apply them to your watercolor paintings.
Today's prompt is "PLAY," and it's a prompt that should be a part of every creative session.
There are few things more frustrating than wanting to paint but feeling creatively blocked. In my experience, this often comes because we get too serious about our paintings - we put pressure on ourselves to paint to a high standard of excellence, we want to paint masterful paintings, and in this serious pursuit, we lose sight of the reasons we started painting in the first place; the visceral joy that is found in painting for FUN.
Let's paint for fun as a warm up today, get our creativity flowing freely, and from there you can move into painting feeling excited and energized about new possibilities for your art.
One way that I help my creativity to flow is through choosing interesting tools to help me feel more playful. I try out different brush shapes, new paint colors, or unorthodox materials or techniques. In bringing the element of surprise into my paintings, I get to see new possibilities for my work, I become more creative and adaptable, and better able to react instinctively and intuitively during the painting process.
Links to help you:
Visit the World Watercolor Month website and find out how you can support our charitable partner, the Dreaming Zebra Foundation, in their goal of bringing art to kids in need and fostering creativity all over the world.
Shop the souvenir shop for exclusive 2020 WWM merchandise, and enter to win prizes from our sponsors: worldwatercolormonth.com
I teach artists how to fall in love with their own work and become their own favorite artist in my online watercolor classes and community: learn.angelafehr.com
Supplies Used Today:
(I receive a small commission when you make a purchase using the links below. Thank you!)
Watercolor Paint: Daniel Smith Carmine, Cobalt Blue, Nickel Azo Yellow bit.ly/2Z9jEQG
Palette "dirt" 😊
Brushes:
Da Vinci Forte Synthetic Mottler 20mm bit.ly/30ZhELm
#12 Round "Roger Jones" brush, Rosemary & Co: rosemaryandco.com/series-rjb?filter_name=roger%20jones
Paper: Arches 140# cold press
Other: Beeswax candle, dip pen with flexible nib
Liquitex copper acrylic ink bit.ly/2V00Pwi
My palette is made by Robax: robax.com/palettes.html
All through World Watercolor Month I'll be posting weekly watercolor lessons designed to help you craft your own thriving creative practice. I'm painting along with the World Watercolor Month daily prompts and sharing my own perspective on how to apply them to your watercolor paintings.
Today's prompt is "PLAY," and it's a prompt that should be a part of every creative session.
There are few things more frustrating than wanting to paint but feeling creatively blocked. In my experience, this often comes because we get too serious about our paintings - we put pressure on ourselves to paint to a high standard of excellence, we want to paint masterful paintings, and in this serious pursuit, we lose sight of the reasons we started painting in the first place; the visceral joy that is found in painting for FUN.
Let's paint for fun as a warm up today, get our creativity flowing freely, and from there you can move into painting feeling excited and energized about new possibilities for your art.
One way that I help my creativity to flow is through choosing interesting tools to help me feel more playful. I try out different brush shapes, new paint colors, or unorthodox materials or techniques. In bringing the element of surprise into my paintings, I get to see new possibilities for my work, I become more creative and adaptable, and better able to react instinctively and intuitively during the painting process.
Links to help you:
Visit the World Watercolor Month website and find out how you can support our charitable partner, the Dreaming Zebra Foundation, in their goal of bringing art to kids in need and fostering creativity all over the world.
Shop the souvenir shop for exclusive 2020 WWM merchandise, and enter to win prizes from our sponsors: worldwatercolormonth.com
I teach artists how to fall in love with their own work and become their own favorite artist in my online watercolor classes and community: learn.angelafehr.com
Supplies Used Today:
(I receive a small commission when you make a purchase using the links below. Thank you!)
Watercolor Paint: Daniel Smith Carmine, Cobalt Blue, Nickel Azo Yellow bit.ly/2Z9jEQG
Palette "dirt" 😊
Brushes:
Da Vinci Forte Synthetic Mottler 20mm bit.ly/30ZhELm
#12 Round "Roger Jones" brush, Rosemary & Co: rosemaryandco.com/series-rjb?filter_name=roger%20jones
Paper: Arches 140# cold press
Other: Beeswax candle, dip pen with flexible nib
Liquitex copper acrylic ink bit.ly/2V00Pwi
My palette is made by Robax: robax.com/palettes.html
