Resources for beginners

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This week’s challenge was suggested by Monique Santhagens-De Vette. Flowers tend to get all the attention, but leaves are just as interesting.  Let’s have a week of painting leaves: a tree leaf, shrub leaf, any kind of leaf. Paint leaves.     Include the topic hashtag in your WB&B Facebook group post: #Leaves Deadline April 8,…

Let’s fill the group with joyful, beautiful flowers.   What is your favorite flower? Paint your favorite flower.     Include the topic hashtag in your WB&B Facebook group post: #FavoriteFlower Deadline April 1, 2022, 11:59 pm ET The tulip has always been my favorite flower.  It was a lifelong dream of mine to see the tulips…

  Learn to paint simple and HAPPY postcards!  If you can write the letter “U”, draw a simple boomerang, and scribble a “blob”, you can paint these happy postcards! We had an online zoom class today with some members of the Facebook group.  It was great to meet them!  It’s fun to paint with others. …

Some encouragement for beginners. Watercolor is complex.  It is a delicate dance between water and pigment.   It cannot be learned overnight.  You cannot fast-forward skills.  It is something you have to go through with time. Learning to paint is like learning a musical instrument.  You cannot start playing Bach’s Prelude in C immediately. It.  Takes.  Practice.    It…

Love the ideas Graham Berry comes up with… and here’s another creative challenge!   Paint TV and Film stills.     Include the topic hashtag in your WB&B Facebook group post: #TVandFilm Deadline March 25, 2022, 11:59 pm ET From Graham Berry: “……for this challenge we are going to use another resource that’s right at our fingertips,…