by Debbie Roskopf | Nov 2, 2024 | Article
QOR watercolors introduced 13 new watercolors in 2024. This article shares and discusses the endless mixing potential of each with the same three primaries. And with helpful color mixing charts included, you’ll be ready to explore and find your own rainbows....
by Debbie Roskopf | Sep 15, 2024 | Article
Entering Art Shows and Striving for Excellence! By Kristi Galindo Dyson, NWWS Years ago, I was an art student and then an art teacher. I was also raised in a home with a working artist and was drawn to my father’s workspace. I was accustomed to being in a studio...
by Debbie Roskopf | Mar 9, 2024 | Article
In March of 2024, Barbara DePirro, Golden Artist Colors Ambassador and fine artist, presented a myriad of materials available to artists through Golden. Beyond acquainting the audience with QOR Watercolors, Golden manufactures a wide variety of mediums that can help...
by Debbie Roskopf | Aug 26, 2023 | Article
by Michael Townsend and Golden Artist Colors, Inc. There is an innovative Payne behind Payne’s Gray. Here is the history of this versatile, popular color, plus recipes for mixing it yourself. From “Just Paint” newsletter: THERE IS NO BLACK AND WHITE...
by Debbie Roskopf | Aug 24, 2023 | Article
by Robert Moore After more than twenty years of doing art critiques I have found ten areas to be the most important. 1. Are the masses large, separate shapes, defined by their closely related values? If you arrange a first grade class from shortest to tallest and a...
by NWWS | Feb 18, 2023 | Article
by Renee St. Peter. EXPLORING FRAMING OPTIONS. There is a lot of conversation happening regarding framing watercolors without the use of glass. This trend won’t be going away and NWWS offered this option to the accepted artists of the 2019 Waterworks Unplugged for the...
by NWWS | Feb 18, 2023 | Article
By Sarah Love Published 2018, Just Prior to the NWWS 75th Anniversary Celebration Have you been painting away, going to workshops to learn how to paint better and wondering if you’ll ever be brave enough to enter a juried show? Or you’ve already entered a show without...
by NWWS | Feb 18, 2023 | Article
The following article was published in Fortune Magazine in 2013. It is still relevant and inspiring in 2023. Above: Sir Michael Moritz, painting, on a hill above the Bolinas Lagoon near San Francisco, CA Sequoia Capital’s Chairman on what it’s like to...
by Molly Murrah | Feb 17, 2023 | Article
As a past digital curator and current catalog designer for NWWS, I have downloaded images of exhibition entries for years. It’s exciting and fun to see the entries as they come in – so many beautiful and creative paintings, some of which take my breath away. It’s a...
by Debbie Roskopf | Feb 10, 2023 | Article
We all want our work to be noted for its originality. Selecting what you will paint and why you will paint it is integral to originality, and most artists understand that this includes using only photo reference material that you alone have taken. As entries are...
