Candice's Studio Blog

  Have you ever forgotten to put the cap back on a tube of watercolour, only to have it completely dry out? Do you want to be able to squeeze every...

  I just finished teaching a workshop through the University of Guelph Arboretum on getting started in Painting Watercolours En Plein Air.  I love...

As watercolour artists, we are trained to use the white of the paper for our highlights and we learn to build up a painting from light to dark. Wa...

I first stumbled on Urban Sketching in 2015, I think I first saw it on Pinterest. I started carrying around a tiny moleskin everywhere and sketchin...

  On my first trip to Europe in 2010, I took around 700 photos over the 9 days I was there. 700 Photos! That's about 70 photos a day of buildings, ...

Spring has sprung in Canada and I am excited to take my watercolours and paint outdoors again. I get a lot of questions from students about what c...

As Spring returns, it is bringing back a lot of the feelings from the first two lockdowns. Sometimes these past two years seem like they crawled b...

Beginner Artists often go out and buy a shiny new set of 12 drawing pencils. They usually come in a snazzy looking tin. But why do you need a doze...

I just saw on Instagram a 2 Day Challenge this month to "Buy No Art Supplies" for 2  days . . . . It is scheduled for February 30th and 31st.  . ....

For me, one of the best ways to get inspiration is to get out of my studio and paint outdoors. But it has been a cold few months and without some w...

I don't read as much as I'd like, but when I do, I often read non-fiction. I love reading about the lives of artists, past and present and learnin...

Watercolour Pencils are a great medium on their own or a great addition to your watercolour practice and they definitely aren’t just for kids and i...