Tomatoes and Lace - Still Life With Juicy Background
How to Paint Glowing Backgrounds and Lace for Intermediate Painters
Tomatoes, really?
Yes, if you add a luscious wet background and a bit of white lace, you can make any subject or still life shine. Lace isn't as hard as you'd think, and your family and friends will be amazed.
This lesson features a simple subject and flat bit of lace so you won't be struggling with painting folds. You can concentrate on learning how to do those great background and easy lace.
Included are written instructions, video instructions and three different reference photos for everyone's tastes. And the tomato painting will look great hanging in your kitchen.
It's fun, it's quirky, but Tomatoes and Lace will teach you new ways to paint with your watercolors that will brighten up all your paintings to come.
Your Instructor
I'm a self taught artist and I love teaching!
My story is simple.
I showed a lot of talent as a child, but my parents discouraged art - a waste of time! I spent my adult life as a nurse and raised a family - pretty busy. I also kept painting.
I wanted my paintings to be realistic, but the watercolor teachers would roll their eyes and tell me, "That's not how you paint watercolors."
Despite the naysayers, I just kept going and taught myself how to paint realism, the way I wanted it, with watercolors. After years of practicing (and lots of bad paintings), I got really good.
I found that not only did I really enjoy teaching other people (and giving them the encouragement I never had), I continued to learn and improve my art through teaching others. It's a win-win!
And so, I set up this site (and my Patreon site) to encourage other people to give watercolor a try. I think it improves their life and that anyone lucky enough to be able to afford the materials and time to dabble in painting is blessed. Whether (or not) you ever turn into a master painter or just gain the admiration of your friends and family.
Watercolor is doable. The more people painting, the better the world will be. Give it a try today!
And yes, this cowboy is a watercolor painting. (Reference photo used with permission by Diana Robinson)