Summary: Learn how to gather and use props to paint with watercolors in this free art lesson on video.
Marcia Matcham is an award-winning watercolor artist who has been painting for about 45 years. She was born and raised in Newton, Kansas. In the mid-sixties she, with her husband and...read more
"Hi I'm Marcia Matcham and I'm here speaking on behalf of Expert Village and I'm going to talk about my water color methods. These are blue-jay's feathers and here are a couple of feathers I don't know who they belong to but I though they where cool and they look you know like a arrangement with leaves with a few feathers. Here and there. A twig just kind of make up a arrangment of things when you don't have anything else to paint. I'm always looking out for things like this I walk around I think with my eyes on the ground because there are always so many interesting things to find. They could be acorns, it could be leaves or feathers, like this little beautiful monarch butterfly that has been found in the drive way and he is slightly coming apart now. Here is one of his fillers and one of these days he is going to end up in a painting. "