Watercolor Artist - USA (2019-12)

10 Watercolor artist | DECEMBER 2019

CreativityWorkshop

D

id you know that towers are

like wedding cakes, trees are

like umbrellas and visualizing

dairy products can help you paint

in watercolor?

Some of my favorite and most fun

sketching “aha” moments have to do

with relating complex subjects to

things we encounter every day. I often

use these concepts when teaching, as

these metaphors can help us to demys-

tify the sometimes-challenging process

of sketching the things we see.

Here are seven tips to deconstruct

objects in a way that will help you

build them better.

Towers Are Like Wedding

Cakes and Other Aha Moments

Finding the building

blocks in everyday objects

makes sketching and

painting them easier—

and a bit more fun, too.

By Stephanie Bower

PHOTO COURTESY OF RAVI NAIMISH

Architectural sketcher Stephanie

Bower is up for creative

adventures around the world,

such as at the Royal Stepwell at

Asafi Imambara, Lucknow, India.