Episode 4: Peggi Habets
In this episode watercolorist Peggi Habets talks about how her process, which includes thoughtful planning, allows her to be bold. She discusses the challenges she sees her students facing and gives practical advice for how to take good reference photos for portraits.
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PDF download of Habets’ palette, brushes and paints.
In the episode we talk about:
1:15 What attracts her to watercolor
1:40 Challenges of watercolor
2:15 What point she decided to get good at watercolor
3:33 How she focused her learning.
4:11 The importance of materials with watercolor
4:49 Biggest struggle she sees her students facing
6:19 What is moisture control?
7:12 Is moisture control a new idea to many of your students?
7:53 How a student controls moisture
8:23 Biggest challenge she sees her students facing with portraiture
9:27 Why the urge to skip drawing
10:28 Process
12:57 What the process gives her
14:02 Planning vs not planning
15:11 How to get bold, spontaneous looking paintings
16:14 The overwhelm of thinking
18:38 How she paints a face
22:42: Understanding the thicknesses of paint
24:44 The diversity of watercolor pigments
25:22 How accurate drawing helps someone paint loosely
26:46 How Peggi would suggest someone learns to draw
27:30 What is value and why it’s important
29:49 Darkest places on the face
30:29 Lightest places on the face
30:54 How to take good reference photos
31:39 What she takes and doesn’t take from reference photos
32:14 Bounce Light
32:50 Edges in the face
36:30 Good backgrounds
37:52 Color schemes: What are they and why useful
40:51 The freedom of understand color schemes
42:00 Mood
43:32 Advice on getting good