House gables | A simple watercolor exercise
This exercise is so easy to do that it ended up in the “for beginners” category. It does involve several different techniques, such as wet on wet, flat wash and glazing, but is still…
Category: Exercise
Exercises for watercolor painters in different levels of difficulty. Read them for tips or use them to paint from.
Regarding the exercises
All exercises that you find here on akvarell.se originally come from my courses in Lund. They have all been painted before by my students. Some students have painted them very successfully, sometimes better than…
Coffee grinder, a semi-hard exercise
This watercolor exercise of a coffee grinder is to be painted with three different colors: French ultramarine, burnt sienna and any warm yellow. The blue ultramarine together with the brown should give a neutral…
Farming – Fairly simple watercolor exercise
For this painting I actually use six different colors. That’s unusually many for me. Two browns: burnt sienna and burnt umber, it’s fine to use just one of these (preferably burnt sienna) if you…
Tourists in San Gimignano
This little exercise should be painted quickly. As for colors, you can use any. I myself used as a base: phthalo blue and venetian red and all sorts of others for the people in…
Wet on wet – An exercise for beginners
This small exercise is the first my students get to do in wet on wet technique. It is intended to create an understanding of how the technique works. Wet on wet means painting on…
Red cat – A watercolor exercise
This exercise is impossible to place as easy or difficult. It depends on a lot of different things if it is one or the other: The right paper is essential, the right colors are…
Coffee | A watercolor exercise
Here is a fairly simple exercise painted with only three colors. You can use any colors that suit the painting, I used ivory black, phthalo blue and burnt sienna. The blue color can be…
An Onion, a simple exercise
The result of this exercise may not be art, but it is still a good exercise in wet on wet technique and mixing color. Use French ultramarine and some orange-brown color, I chose burnt…
Why not black?
It is often heard that black paint should be avoided, or even that it is forbidden in watercolor painting. I can understand why, a black detail. in a painting that does not contain any…
