Rowing boat
This painting was made using one of my favourite colour triads: French Ultramarine, Burnt Sienna and Raw Sienna. Earth colours can easily be substituted with similar colours. Burnt Sienna can be replaced with any…
Exercises for watercolor painters in different levels of difficulty. Read them for tips or use them to paint from.
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This painting was made using one of my favourite colour triads: French Ultramarine, Burnt Sienna and Raw Sienna. Earth colours can easily be substituted with similar colours. Burnt Sienna can be replaced with any…
This large urn can be found in the courtyard in Moricci, Tuscany. To succeed with this exercise, you will need white paint. I know that this is a color that is not usually included…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
This exercise is from a watercolor course I conducted in 1998. The image was photographed on slide film and then digitized. I mention this to excuse the questionable image quality. I painted the picture…
This is a fun exercise. You can use any two colors you like, I used phthalo green (yellow shade) and quinacridone rose. But any color combination can work. The only requirement is that the…

