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My Best Watercolor Tips

My best watercolor tips for anyone who is learning or experienced with watercolor. These tips will help you relax, get into the creative spirit and help you to become more confident in your skills!

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New Watercolor Clipart Designs!

Creating new and fun ways for you to add more watercolor into your life is a passion of mine! In this blog post, I walk you through my newest idea come to life - watercolor clip art! I am so excited to see what you all think (I know you will love it!). I’ve created a tutorial along with this post so you can be ready to implement these designs easily!

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Printable Watercolor Tracing Sheets!

Printable watercolor practice sheets to help you paint more and have fun doing it! When you need inspiration for what to paint, simply choose one of the 6 motifs to help you! Free bonus for watercolor students who join Intro to Modern Watercolors for Beginners before November 27th, 2020. www.lifeidesign.com

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life i design The Podcast is live!

Woooops!

I recorded a few podcast episodes, stuff happened, and I decided to push back the launch date of the podcast from September 14th to December 1st. I felt relieved that I had more time to figure out podcasting and getting a bunch of episodes recorded.

Then on the morning of September 14th, I woke up to a notification congratulating me that the podcast was live!

Wait! What?!!

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Free Watercolor Tutorials For Beginners

Watercolor painting can be intimidating and with so much variety of brush, paints, paper, palettes… you get the idea, I’ve decided to create a new resource to help demystify, give you guidance and show you how you can easily get started painting using watercolors.

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My Top 5 Calligraphy Projects to Sell

Working from home as a calligrapher is something that I’ve done since 2012. Over the years, I’ve offered a huge variety of services and products to my clients. In this post, I’ve compiled 5 of my favorite calligraphy projects that I recommend you consider selling too!

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Passive Income, as part of your calligraphy business

A few years ago I was working a lot! I was designing for my clients, printing orders from my shops, creating my first few online classes and teaching workshops all over town. Seven days a week was the norm for me, and my husband also travelled a lot for work, which meant I was the kid’s numero uno.

I kept that pace for about a year and then started to feel burnt out!

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Color Mixing Lesson: My 5 Favorite Watercolors To Paint With

These are seriously my top 5 watercolors to paint with! I can mix every color I need to paint leaves, stems, florals and more! If you are just starting out and are looking for a few tubes of colors that you can get started with, have a look at the ones that I show you in this tutorial!

Check out the video below and if you’re a fan of YouTube, don’t forget to subscribe here!

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Watercolor Peony Tutorial For Beginners

These tutorials are meant to give you a taste of what is possible with the right tools and techniques! If your goal is to great painting rituals that make you feel excited to sit down to paint, then I invite you to come paint with me and experience first hand how gratifying the ritual of the process really is!

Modern Watercolors for beginners is open for a few more days then it’s gone until the fall!

A self paced, video based class that you have lifetime access to as I updated and add to the course!

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