Flat brushes

1 May 2025

Video - Level ◆◆◆

How well do you know your flat brushes? Maybe they can do more than you think ;-)

In this lesson we explore a number of different ways to use a flat brush with watercolours, and then we sketch Big Ben, adding the washes with only flat brushes. The sketch may look complicated, but I walk you through it slowly, from pencil sketch to the final details.

There's a downloadable worksheet attached that you can print out and keep.

Thanks to Pauline Fidget for the reference photo.

Happy painting!