Drybrushed lake
This painting can be difficult or easy to paint, depending on your brush technique. Many less experienced watercolor painters usually have a far too strict attitude when it comes to how they use their…
Category: Exercise
Skåne farm
This is an easy painting exercise. Three colors and only a few layers of paint and almost no glazing or wet on wet, basically the whole painting is done with only one layer, of…
Three primary colors
This exercise primarily develops your color mixing skills. You must use the three primary colors: red (cold red), yellow (preferably lemon yellow, but not necessary) and blue (preferably cold, phthalo or Prussian). I personally…
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…
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…
