Watercolor Landscape Reference Photo
Figure 1: Inspiration for this watercolor landscape painting. It is typical New South Wales country farmland.
Required Materials
Arches 300gsm Rough (preferred paper for this painting) or Cold Press Watercolour Paper
Round Brushes: Sizes 24 and 16 for larger washes and 12 and 10 for the smaller areas and detail.
Paints: All Winsor and Newton – Cobalt Blue (sky), Raw Umber, Burnt Sienna, Cobalt Turquoise, Aureolin, French Ultramarine
Backing board, masking tape, old towel to control wetness of your brushes, etc
Step One: Drawing
Figure 2: Light pencil drawing is done to place key objects
Do a loose drawing of the landscape painting we are going to do.
This drawing does not have a lot of detail. It just places key objects within the painting. I use a very light line for the top of the distant hills – in fact I often don’t even put it in if I am going to have a soft edge there to enhance the feeling of space. Otherwise the pencil mark will show through and not look right with a soft watercolor edge over it.
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