Category: Normal exercises

Moderately difficult watercolor exercises

Here are some watercolor exercises suitable for those who have been painting for a few years. They are not very difficult but some experience with watercolor painting is good to have.

Hofterupsdösen 0

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…

stänka akvarellfärg 0

Splash

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…

akvarellövning 0

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….

Kåseberga hamn 0

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…

Kaffekvarn en övning 0

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…

kaffe 0

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…

Vagnar och träd 0

Trailers and trees

This painting is done with phthalo blue, burnt sienna, nickel dioxin yellow and quinacridone rose. The blue color can be replaced with e.g. Prussian blue or any other modern synthetic blue color. The brown…

Sen eftermiddag på hösten 0

Late afternoon in autumn

Cobalt blue, burnt sienna, quinacridone rose and Nickel Dioxine Yellow (a warm yellow) This motif is from just outside Kävlinge on a beautiful autumn day when the trees start to turn brown. The photo…

Övning traktor 0

Tractor

This is a painting that is painted according to the principle from light to dark. It is thus built up with gradually darker and darker layers of color. The exercise also shows how you…