Kolbie Blume of the ThisWritingDesk.com is going to show us step-by-step how to paint beautiful landscapes with watercolour.
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In this episode, you’ll learn:
- How painting gorgeous landscapes isn’t as difficult as it may seem
- How to break a scene down into easy-to-paint “puzzle pieces”
- Kolbie’s secret landscape recipe!
- AND SO MUCH MORE!
Key takeaways from this lesson:
- Imperfection is realistic!
- Divide a landscape into two parts: the background (usually the sky) and the foreground (usually everything else)
- Backgrounds are lighter, foregrounds are darker
- Practice the wet-on-wet technique, by first getting your paper wet with water
- Paint the background (the sky) using a left to right movement with your brush as you move down, to create a fading gradient
- Mountain shapes look more realistic if there have jagged edges throughout, and not just perfect triangle peaks
Tools used in this video:
- Watercolour paints
- Watercolour brushes of varying sizes
- Watercolour paper
Resources we mentioned:
Like what you see? Don’t forget to comment on the video and let me know!
I have such performance anxiety about art and rally want to take another class but don’t. Thanks for this tutorial. Very encouraging.
I loved Kolbie’s tutorial on landscape watercolour painting techniques. Her demonstration and explanations were very clear and concise. Now I can’t wait to try it myself! Thanks so much!
Thanks Kolbie! Very helpful to a self teaching watercolor artist. I’ll paint today with your insight. I too, was artistic as a young girl but fell away from it in fear of failure. Whenever I watched an artist paint I would think, “that’s so easy, I can do that”. Well, at 65 I am enjoying the discovery of painting. I consider myself in the practice stage, learning the feel of paints, brushes and color blending. I’m hard on myself, but share attempts with friends and learn from mistakes.