Watercolor Painting on YUPO Instructional DVD with Taylor Ikin

Taylor Ikin explores the freedom YUPO synthetic paper gives the watercolor artist and reveals her masterful techniques to achieve lively tones while working quickly and boldly. In this instructional DVD workshop Dancing with YUPO: Tools and Techniques you will learn about working from a photo reference, about YUPO, about color and much more. [continued…]

Dancing with YUPO: Tools and Techniques by Taylor Ikin

The versatility of the synthetic paper gives watercolor artist Taylor Ikin the freedom that perfectly suits her approach to painting.

In this workshop, Taylor begins with an in-depth discussion of her favorite materials. She answers frequently asked questions about YUPO and explains how to paint, draw, revise and erase on synthetic paper. She reveals how she keeps paintings lively by eliminating earth tones from her palette and concentrating on exciting hues. She also teaches you to work big and fast using large bold strokes. This free-flowing style lends itself to her colorful scenes.

Taylor works to give a sense of her subject rather than trying to copy nature. She demonstrates how to work from a photo reference and to use a mirror to reverse the initial painting for evaluation. She shows you how to let your paint work for you and warns against the excessive tidiness that discourages natural shapes.

Taylor encourages you to relax, feel happy and enjoy the process. Her approach is high energy!