This week I posted two videos on my Youtube channel the one above is about mixing warm and cool grays. The next video which I loaded up yesterday is my first portrait of rescue collie Henry using only warm and cool grays. 
Henry does not like it when I am in the studio. I do not use the hairdryer but he still hates the swish of the water so I keep treats in my pocket and call him in from time to time . 
This is not great for my concentration but Henry needs this for now and he is food motivated so it is a win win situation. 

It took me a long long time to begin to understand how temperature can be manipulated when mixing paint. I had a sense for how to do it but now I have a real strategic way to look at temperature and plug it in so that my work is more varied and planfull. I plan to make more videos like this because watercolor painting is more about what happens on the palette than it is about what goes on the paper. If you have questions you would like me to "tackle", leave them here and I will do it in a video or a live stream. 

It has been a "minute" since I last sent our a blog post. I had been wondering what my new role could be during the period of isolation. I have decided to keep painting and teaching. The main way I am teaching is on my Youtube channel. I hope you will subscribe to it and make my spirits soar. 

This was a recent video about creating compositions. If you like it please leave me a thumbs up and hit the subscribe and notifications button. If you do this you will invited to the next "live" Q and A session.