a barn in a field of dandelions

Pen and watercolour painting tutorial
Pen and watercolour painting tutorial

Here's one of the happiest paintings I've done in a while! A barn in a field of dandelions. I just want to run through and set them all off :-)

There are a lot of wonderful parts to this painting - big areas of wet-in-wet, wet-on-damp, dry brushing, and effective use of masking fluid. There's a wooden barn, trees, bushes and a field of weedy dandelions.
Having said all that, it's not a complicated lesson at all!

Happy painting!

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