Watercolour Challenge 5 (Patreon)

Happy Tuesday everybody and welcome along to our new Patrons. 

Well done on your timed paintings last week, it certainly lived up to its title of being a challenge, but freeing up your painting style and breaking down the subject matter to its simplest strokes is such a useful tool to loosen up when painting just isn't going your way.

You will be glad to know that today's task is much more gentle. This is the first of our tree painting challenges and to begin with we are going to enjoy a fairly straightforward tutorial.

4 different tree illustrations that involve a slightly different painting technique: We are starting with a small-scale, simplified tree. Often in compositions, there are many trees in the distance that need to be painted in a way the defines them from just being green blobs but not so detailed that they are distracting.

This is a private youtube link which only you sweet pea patrons have access to.

You will need

A range of brushes

Colours of your choosing

A few sheets of watercolour paper (cold pressed is my go-to)

jar of water

kitchen roll to blot the brush (particularly important in this challenge)

Pencil

After/whilst watching the video...

1: Paint along with my four tree tutorials

2: Look outside - or on google images if you're in an area with little access to trees - and try to apply these techniques to more trees. Paint as many as you can to get comfortable with the techniques.

I can't wait to see how you get on. I found this so satisfying to do.

Comment below with your findings, and if you are sharing your work on Instagram, use the #dwpcchallenge and tag me @dewintonpaperco.

Enjoy the process and have as many goes as you like. 

Have a wonderful week.

Harriet

xxx