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Being a self-taught artist is not easy. In this blog, I will share some tips for a self-taught artist that will help you.

I always like reading books since I was a child. I still love to. Right now I have four art books and I will share my reviews about them and

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If you are new to my website, my name is Heli and I am a self-taught artist. I run a small art business where I sell original paintings, art prints, greeting cards, and guide beginners to paint with watercolors. As I became a self-taught artist, I believe everyone can paint and everyone should do at least as a hobby. In this post, I will be sharing the tools I have used as a beginner watercolor artist and what I use now for practice, commission, and final paintings. The essen

Doing watercolor swatches is very calming and soothing to the eyes and mind. We all have tried painting watercolor swatches, right? Have you ever found a very useful way to use the swatch card? If you haven't, then let me help you a little, my friend. Why create watercolor swatches? 1) To see how the color looks when it is dried. 2) Paints are expensive. By swatching them, you can decide which paint to use in your painting. 3) It gives a visual reference about its opacity and

I started 31days of the mini watercolor painting challenge in December 2020 and in this post, I am going to share my experience and why I...

I can’t believe this is an end of the 31 days of mini watercolor paintings challenge. It was amazing. I have learned a lot in these days…

This is the first day of 2022. Do you take any resolutions on the first day of the year? I used to do it when I was in school but after…

I decided to paint watercolor evening sky painting for day 29. At first, I was not into what I have painted. The first idea was to paint a s

This is one of the best watercolor landscapes I have painted in the 31 days of the mini watercolor painting challenge. I love how the color

Painting the night sky with watercolors is magical. To your surprise, I have never painted a night sky with cactus all around. This was fun

I fell in love with these watercolor landscape sky colors. Whenever I imagine an evening sky, I don't know why but only red, orange, yellow,

Mountains are a beautiful object to paint in your watercolor landscape painting. Especially when you paint a snowy mountain with a green one

I love painting the colorful sky with watercolors. As I am writing this, I am thinking I should have documented process videos for all the paintings for you guys. Well, we will do that later. Do you guys like watching painting process videos? I used a picture Gian Porsius posted on Unsplash for reference. I love painting birds in the sky. It gives a special feeling to the sky. I would say, it gives a happy feeling to the painting. Many people struggle painting the birds, but

For day 23, I have decided to paint this beautiful flower meadow from the picture Allyson Beaucourt posted on Unsplash. Unsplash is a beauti

The more I am getting close to the last day, the more I am feeling proud of myself. Before two years, I started a similar project like this where I decided to paint 30 flowers in 30 days. I was able to paint only 21 flower paintings. I was a little disappointed with myself but I learned a lot of things. From that project, I sold my very first painting to a beautiful lady from Bangalore, India. It was a very simple painting. There were three flowers and I wrote "be happy" belo

Only 10 days remaining for 31 days of the mini watercolor painting challenge and I am already thinking to start a similar project like this. I am liking the groove and I like scheduling social media posts ahead and love how it is going. For these 21 days, I have been scheduling my social media posts in advance and it was really helpful. I missed posting on LinkedIn and Pinterest in between but that is fine. I am not so happy with how this painting is turned out. I could hav

Can you believe it is day 20 for the 31 days of the mini watercolor painting challenge? I can't believe we have come so far. Previously in 2019, I started a very similar project like this where I was painting flowers for 30 days on 4 x 4 inches of the canvas. I couldn't paint for each and every day but it was very good learning. I used Gauche as a medium for that project. Watercolor landscape painting for day 20 For this painting, I took reference from Stephen Quiller's paint

For the 19th day, I decided to paint on a deckled edges paper which is done by myself. I love doing deckled edges and then painting on them. It gives a rustic feeling to the painting. Painting a monochrome painting is my favorite method and especially for the mountains. Two years ago when I started painting, I painted two medium-sized paintings using the same method. I have a tutorial video on how to paint a monochrome painting on my YouTube channel. If you are interested in

It is day 18 of 31 days of the mini watercolor painting challenge and finally, I am painting northern lights. It is on my bucket list to see northern lights in real. They are magical. Have you ever experienced it? Reference photo: @niebrugge from Instagram It was a bit difficult for me to paint northern lights for the first time but it was a good experience. I am going to paint another northern light watercolor landscape for the coming days for sure. Thank you so much for sto