This is a quick tutorial by artist Steven Cronin. I’m not certain what happened on the right side of the sky, but I suspect the paper buckled while it dried and I didn’t catch it:
And here’s a better image of the four quick landscapes I did the other day, all tutorials by artist Peter Sheeler:
I practiced the wet-into-wet technique using several videos on YouTube by artist Peter Sheeler:
More attempts at using watercolor. I’m using an inexpensive Prang oval set on either 90 lb. or 140 lb. cold press paper. With the last few, I’ve starting using Winsor and Newton Cotman (student) paint in tubes. The color is smoother and the dark browns and blues are deeper:
My favorite so far. This is one of the exercises from Zoltan Szabo’s Landscape Painting in Watercolor.
Another exercise from Zoltan Szabo’s Landscape Painting in Watercolor. When it dried, the sky was far too light for the dark island, and so I splashed black on it, giving it a strange look.
This is from one of Grant Fuller’s amazing demos on Youtube. My paper was very small and so I opted to skip the house and trees. At the last minute I added a boat:
