How-to guides

Traditional Art Meets Digital Creativity!

Six short, step-by-step guides: set up your studio, draw with pencil, ink and calligraphy, paint in watercolour and acrylic, turn photos into paintings, turn a watercolour into oil pastel, and plan with composition and perspective.

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A Hampi temple scene as a watercolour, made with Photo to Watercolour in Aqua Lab — Photo → Watercolour of a Hampi painting by Sri T.V. Ganeshgudi

Made in Aqua Lab

Dance photos turned into paintings and retouched: the whole stage as a painted sketch, or one dancer kept in colour.

Five Bharatanatyam dancers on stage, painted in Aqua Lab from a photo

A Bharatanatyam dancer in colour on a black and white stage, retouched in Aqua Lab

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Study the Hampi masters

Sri T.V. Ganeshgudi’s Hampi paintings are built into Aqua Lab: trace them, copy them stroke by stroke, or turn them into ink and pencil studies.

Hampi paintings by Sri T.V. Ganeshgudi, shared in Aqua Lab with gratitude.