Lonely Tree – A simple watercolor exercise
This is a rather simple little watercolor exercise with only two colors, which can still become a painting worthy of being framed on your wall. The colors for the painting are French ultramarine and…
Category: Exercise
Exercises for watercolor painters in different levels of difficulty. Read them for tips or use them to paint from.
Kåseberga harbour
Kåseberga is a small town on the southern coast of Skåne. About a hundred meters from the harbor is the megalithic monument Ale’s Stones. Kåseberga used to be an important fishing village, fishing and…
Three primary colors | An exercise
This is a fairly simple exercise in terms of painting, but perhaps difficult when it comes to color mixing. The idea of the exercise is to train the ability to paint large surfaces evenly…
Sailboats | A watercolor exercise
I did this exercise in 2007 for my students in Lund, it mainly includes controlled wet on wet painting. It is an excellent exercise for practicing the ability to paint wet on wet in…
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…
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…
