Tagged: watercolor exercise
Misty Farm in Skåne
This painting is fairly simple to execute and works well as an exercise for those who are relatively new to watercolor painting. Large smooth areas, no perspective, and simple color mixing make it well…
Yellow Houses: Watercolor Wash Exercise
When painting an exercise like this, with many washes, it can be useful to think about which colors are suitable for the technique. Since a flat wash is a way of painting that depends…
Virke – a watercolor exercise
This painting is from Virke, a small village which is centrally located in the western part of Skåne. About 60 people live in Virke, making it a very small village, but with a magnificent…
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…
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….
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…
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…
