painting old boats - online watercolour lesson

9 May 2020

Paint this scene with me - online watercolour lesson

In this online lesson we get to paint this very pretty scene. I break it down into small achievable parts - rainy sky, water and reflections and, of course, boats. At the end you'll have a beautiful painting. This full lesson includes how to setup your workspace, tricks on compostion, colour mixing and mark making, wet in wet and wet on dry techniques, and much more. In one lesson you will certainly learn a lot!

Lesson includes :

2 videos (full lesson is 40min long)
materials list
downloadable reference photo

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One of my all-time favourite paintings of a stormy day in a ruined Roman town in Spain.

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