art instruction book “The Art of Painting Sea Life in Watercolor” [page 2 of 3]:

Jellyfish

bottle and sprinkle table salt over the water area. To add texture and bubble-like shapes, drop rubbing alcohol on the wet surface with an eyedropper. then let the wash dry thoroughly.

Step 3 mask out the seahorse to protect it from the wet wash of the sea grass and the second wash of the underwater background. apply the masking fluid to the seahorse thickly and carefully, as would paint it. While the masking fluid dries, prepare a pool of ultramarine blue, phthalo blue, phthalo green, new gamboge, quinacridone gold, magenta, and indigo. wet each piece of sea grass with clean water and then mingle two or three colors. drop one color after another and allow them to blend together. repeat the process for the other pieces of sea grass, changing colors as work. To add an interesting texture, lift out some wet colors with facial tissue. let the washes dry.

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Animals

Step-by-step instructions for drawing a l of you r favor te ba rnya rd friends!

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Animals

Step-by-step instruct ons for dra wing a l of you r favorite ba rnya rd friends!

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Farm Animals

ep-by-step instruct ons for drawing a l of you r favorite ba rnya rd friends!

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The foundation of the Taylor Museum collection is rooted in traditional Latin American and Native American works, areas in which Alice Bemis Taylor held a particular interest. Santos, depictions of saints in both two and three-dimensional forms, make up a significant percentage of Taylor’s original gift. The Fine Arts Center has maintained this legacy through the ongoing acquisition of these objects over the decades.

This selection represents some of the most recently acquired santos and demonstrates that the art form is very much alive and is reverential to tradition as well as innovative to appeal to a contemporary audience.