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How to Paint in Watercolour — Dog Watches Evening Flight of Birds — with narrated video and demonstration
A lot of watercolour painting is about preparing for it — both in your head as to where and what you’re painting — and on your painting surface — that is — preparing puddles of colour ready for applying them to your picture wet-in-wet.
I have wet the paper all over. Then I apply my colours — lemon yellow, raw sienna — I was painting the sky straight across and then realised it would be better on the diagonal — I should have had that planned before I started — a little orange, alizarin crimson, ultramarine blue, burnt umber, Payne’s grey — all the colours are still wet at this stage — purple — I’m working out how to balance the colours as I go.
When that’s dry, I put in some far hills with a mix of ultramarine blue and light red (shadow-colour):
