new watercolour painting tutorial

Excited to announce I have a new full length video tutorial. In this one we paint this ruined miner's hut which is in the historic, gold mining settlement of Welshtown near my home. I visited this sketcher's paradise late last year and I had such fun repainting this scene in my studio so that you can follow along.

In this lesson (40min) we paint...

  • a hot summer sky
  • distant snowy mountains
  • trees and fields
  • stone hut

You'll learn wet in wet techniques, how to charge in with colours to make washes interesting, how to paint stonework and I show you a trick with how to easily add branches to your trees.

You can find the tutorial here.

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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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