Painting for Pleasure - Easy Loose Mark Making Watercolor Abstract for Absolute Beginners and Fun

Today we're doodling our way into summer with an easy, light and breezy loose watercolor abstract. It couldn't be simpler to get started - just paint circles in your favorite colors, and then try to relax and see where the paint takes you! I switched from paint to pastel pencils for the mark making, and to keep an airy summery feel I stopped sooner than I might have done, and left lots of white space in the painting.

Today's materials:
Bockingford 9 x 12 Cold Press https://amzn.to/3Cgb85H
Bockingford 10 x 14” Cold Pressed block https://amzn.to/3BBLCGe
Kuretake Gansai Tambi Art Nouveau set https://amzn.to/3KkQxRl
Princeton Aqua Elite Synthetic Kolinsky Brush, Round, size 12
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Faber Castell Pitt Pastel Pencils https://amzn.to/3oG70aA
Meeden Ceramic Brush Wash Bowl
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00:00 Introduction
00:34 Cleaning my Kuretake Arte Nouveau palette
02:34 Today's materials
05:21 Painting circles
10:41 Mark making with pastel pencils
18:29 Final painted details

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