Shades and Values; What's are They? I've been told that the human eye can distinguish approximately 256 different colors and differentiate between 10 to 12 different shades. And that the computer can distinguish between millions. However, you'll probably get a much different estimate on what the human eye can actually see, ...

Elk Mountain is the newest watercolor lesson I've added and put up online. Though I consider this intermediate, I do so only because it's something that I feel comes easier to people who've painted before and are accustomed to watching watercolors mix on wet paper, seeing how the paint flows ...

I've finished the watercolor of the Elk Painting that is currently posted on my homepage (www.armchairpaintclasses.com) but what remains to be done is to put the entire lesson together. Painting pieces can be time-consuming, yes. Stopping to take photographs and sometimes even small videos. But the process of putting a lesson ...

Well I sure have been away from ArmChairPaintClasses and it' s been a hard climb back.... When my host deleted my files, everything was gone. I do mean everything. There was very little left that I had managed to save. Years of newsletters, many lessons, files, comments froms years of students  that ...