Recent content by Claude J Greengrass

add: direction of light source

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https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/28/csotd-errors-and-omissions/

Anyone have any pro/con comments of Da Vinci Mural Maker?

Imagine you are watching a film and interspaced are stills caused by an old fashioned box camera. The stills are in black and white compared to the coloured film and last only a second or two. When I first restarted painting watercolour I could look at a scene and for a photo flash moment see...

I use Saunders-Waterford #200 rough. The #200 is much better than the #140 without the high cost of #300 papers.

There is no magic brush/pigment/paper. None!!! Stop looking for the magic brush... There is no substitute for hours spent and the easel. You need to paint a few acres of watercolour. You are going to get over your fear of spoiling/wasting paper.

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ― Pablo Picasso

Last week I purchased "Cézanne Drawing". It's not a book for landscape artists IMOSHO. Last week a received a previously purchased book "Cézanne's Watercolors: Between Drawing and Painting" which I would say was a disappointment for a landscape artists. I am currently exploring purchase...

Anyone attempting to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. -- John Von Neumann Way back when I first started working on/with computers, common logic gates were the 7400 series of about 4 logic gates on a chip. After a weeks worth of instruction...

Most important is Watercolour Paper. The better the quality the easier it is to paint. Negative advice: don't buy too many brushes..

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