Simple Watercolour Landscape for Beginners

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This is a really simple watercolour landscape for beginners. I only really used two colours (paynes grey and burnt umber). This painting is done on a small scale which is a good way to start as a beginner. It is A5 size and done on Arches, 300gsm, medium, cold pressed paper. The hardest part is probably the wet in wet sky at the beginning but really you can't go wrong by putting it down and then leaving it alone. You can tell when I was painting this that I was still not really sure if the sky was working or not but it turned out fine. Sometimes you just have to trust that it will and leave it. You could use any other grey (I actually prefer the mix of cobalt blue and light red as for me it has more life in it and it also separates and I like that this gives the clouds almost like an aurora around them!).

To wet the page I started with the round sable but that is really too small for my liking and so I changed to the 1 inch hake brush and then to the two inch hake brush to wet the page. So much easier with a larger brush. I then painted in the sky with the pure kolinsky round sable and then used the 1 inch hake brush with just gives wider strokes which I wanted. I then used the round sable for the foreground, the old fan brush for the trees, the round sable again for the distant mountains and the flay nylon brush for lifting out the water line. I then used the razor and ruler to scratch back into the paper.

Paper: Arches 300gsm medium cold pressed
Paint: Paynes grey and burnt umber (winsor and newton artist qualtiy) a tiny bit of yellow ochre but you don't need to do this
Brushes: Round sable, 1 inch hake brush, 2 inch hake brush, old fan brush, flat nylon, ruler, razor, 3M magic tape and as per usual many tissues!

Thanks for watching, happy painting!


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Paints
Winsor and Newton Artist Quality Tubes:
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Yellow Ochre amazon: https://geni.us/YellowOchreTube
Light Red amazon: https://geni.us/LightRedTube

Winsor and Newton Cotman Tubes (student quality):
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Light Red amazon: https://geni.us/cotmanlightred
Yellow Ochre amazon: https://geni.us/cotmanyellowochre


Tape
3M Scotch Magic Tape amazon: https://geni.us/ScotchMagicTape19mm
3M Scotch Removable Tape amazon: https://geni.us/ScotchRemovableTape

Brushes
Round Sable - Size 12 round kolinsky sable from amazon: https://geni.us/SAAKolinskySable

Imitation sable - amazon: https://geni.us/EscodaRoundSable

Holbein Hake Brushes: https://geni.us/HolbeinHakeBrushes

Equivalent Hake Brushe 2” amazon: https://geni.us/WinsorNewtonHake

Nylon Flat Brush amazon: https://geni.us/NylonFlatBrush

Travel Brush set with covers amazon: https://geni.us/travelbrushset

Mixing Brushes and other effect brushes amazon: https://geni.us/HogBristleBrushes

If you just want two hogs bristle brushes then the best thing to do is to head to your local art supplies store and buy them there.

Watercolour Paper
Arches 300gsm medium cold pressed pad amazon: https://geni.us/ArchesPad

Arches 300gsm medium cold pressed block which is glued on the outside so you don’t have to stick it down on a board amazon: https://geni.us/ArchesWatercolourPaper

Rives BFK etching paper. Probably best to source this from your local store so you can look after the paper and not have it posted unless you are buying a large amount of paper and it will be looked after. There is nothing worse than getting hundreds of sheets all with a indent in them. Having said that you can actually source this paper from amazon:

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Some people have been extremely happy with the state of the paper when it arrived (and some not!)

I love this paper it is soft and lights are lifted easily from it.


Equipment Used to Film Each Episode

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