Category: Exercise
Exercises for watercolor painters in different levels of difficulty. Read them for tips or use them to paint from.
Read more about how the exercises are intended to be used
Misty Farm in Skåne
This painting is fairly simple to execute and works well as an exercise for those who are relatively new to watercolor painting. Large smooth areas, no perspective, and simple color mixing make it well…
Yellow Houses: Watercolor Wash Exercise
When painting an exercise like this, with many washes, it can be useful to think about which colors are suitable for the technique. Since a flat wash is a way of painting that depends…
Shadows in watercolor
This painting is based on a photo from the farm I Moricci in Tuscany, where I usually run watercolor courses. It is intended to demonstrate one way of painting shadows in a watercolor painting….
Old Window
This exercise is quite easy to paint, and only two colors are used, making the mixing process simple as well. It is therefore a good exercise for the less experienced watercolor painter. The two…
Virke – a watercolor exercise
This painting is from Virke, a small village which is centrally located in the western part of Skåne. About 60 people live in Virke, making it a very small village, but with a magnificent…
The Hofterup Dolmen
Hofterupsdösen is a dolmen, a tomb from the Neolithic era. It is located just east of Hofterup Church in Kävlinge Municipality, not far from where I live. It may seem like a tricky subject…
Red onion – a watercolor exercise
This is primarily an exercise in color mixing. Two colors are used for the painting. It is difficult to use colors other than those suggested, which are Quinacridone rose and phthalo green yellow tone….
