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Summary: Learn how to get a life-like look when you 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. You can see the hair on this pig and literally I was left all of that area white then I used a dry brush technique to make the hair looking lines. But I really started out basically with a white area there. And these up in here I got white water color was which I had to go buy some I didn't have any. There are a wide varieties, techniques to be used to get a life like look. And feathers on birds I used a dry brush technique where you fan out the bristles of your brush. "