Hello! My name is Hanna, and I have been an avid reader of watercolour blogs for several years. I am writing this one to, er, give back to the community. I currently have two main hobbies: painting, and obsessing about painting supplies. Luckily, there is a lot of overlap (I actually use up some of … Read more
Until now, this has been my personal blog: I, Logan, am the only person to write for it, except a single guest post. That guest post was written by Hanna, a fellow watercolor enthusiast who I met from comments on the blog. We bonded over a shared love of pigments, and Hanna is a frequent … Read more
Update your bookmarks, because I’ve changed my domain name! BillyIdyll.com is now IdyllSketching.com.
Since I’m moving off Instagram, I decided to make a list of the artists I most enjoy following and find other ways to find them online. I carefully picked through my Instagram follows, blog RSS reader, Youtube subscriptions, and bookmarks to bring you these gems.
There was a time that I loved Instagram. In my first two years or so of painting, every piece got posted to Instagram first. (Every piece is now somewhere on the blog – in a year or monthly retrospective post – but that wasn’t initially the case.) Much of my artist social life was on … Read more
I recently participated in a local “Yart Sale” (yard sale + art sale), where I made my first art sales. Since I’d already put together all my sellable art and purchased plastic protectors and things, I figured why not take it online and sell off the rest of my stock online. I’m in the art … Read more
I started this blog without having any idea of whether anyone would read it. It was a place for me to gather my own thoughts and organize an increasingly unwieldy amount of notes I was taking in Google Drive about watercolor technique, supplies, tips & tricks. I’ve really enjoyed actually getting comments and “meeting” you … Read more