Category: For beginners
Simple exercises for beginners
These watercolor painting exercises are very simple and made to suit beginners.
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…
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…
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…
Coloring a circle
This is a very simple exercise for the absolute beginner, sometimes when I get students who do not master basic brush technique and who have difficulty painting with a lot of liquid, they get…
An exercise in flat wash technique
This is the first exercise that all my students must complete. You absolutely must be able to do this. If you try to do this exercise, the goal is a perfect result, otherwise you…
