Expressive watercolor

Watercolor artist Jean Haines shares tips for achieving a loose, interpretive watercolor painting style. Use her strategies to arrive at the same place.

Spanish artist Àngela Maria Sierra, who works as Riso Chan, explores the human psyche through subtly layered foliage. “I always imagine that they are someone’s soul, what we don’t see, our nature,” Sierra says of the delicate botanical assemblages that she overlays onto her subjects’ faces and torsos. Each portrait begins with a focus on texture and pattern as the artist paints clusters of twigs and leaves with watercolor. She then scans those botanical elements and uses Procreate to…

Spanish artist Àngela Maria Sierra, who works as Riso Chan, explores the human psyche through subtly layered foliage. “I always imagine that they are someone’s soul, what we don’t see, our nature,” Sierra says of the delicate botanical assemblages that she overlays onto her subjects’ faces and torsos. Each portrait begins with a focus on texture and pattern as the artist paints clusters of twigs and leaves with watercolor. She then scans those botanical elements and uses Procreate to…

Lars Eje Larsson

This week’s featured artist is Rebecca Elfast, a Swedish architect and painter whose dramatic watercolor paintings prove that expressive paintings don’t have to be thickly textured oils or acrylics.

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