Jan Kunz: Painting Watercolor Portraits that Glow Hard Cover BookJan Kunz Drawing on her experience as a commercial artist and teacher of watercolor portraiture, Jan Kunz, watercolor artist, provides you with useful and easily applied lessons in creating successful portraits. Illustrating how the different effects of light can express mood in watercolor and make a painting come alive, she demonstrates a basic fact of outdoor painting, the "40% Rule": every shadow area is a full 40 percent darker than the sunlit

Tramping through endless woods with his easel on his back

the painting will be a failure

Ken began capturing landscapes at the age of 7

paint mixing and application

Three demonstration paintings are shown in the video

Before there was “Winter Landscapes”

Differentiate yourself and surprise others with nocturnes

there has been a tremendous resurgence of interest in painting realistically--in creating convincing illusions of three-dimensional depth on two dimensional surfaces

Create modern

And he does all of these things backed with technique

How complementary colors will bring you more compliments

"me-too" artists