🍐 Golden Pears Watercolor Sketch Tutorial (Patreon)

Our new Friday lesson is here!

This time, we’re painting two beautiful golden pears hanging from a branch, surrounded by fresh green leaves and a soft, atmospheric watercolor background.

In this lesson, we’ll work with warm yellows and different shades of green, create natural textures on the pears, add expressive leaves and branches, and practice painting a loose background that brings the whole composition together. We’ll finish the sketch with fineliner details, splashes, and small highlights to give it that lively watercolor sketching feel.

I especially love the colors in this one — it still has the freshness of summer, but there’s already a little hint of autumn🍐🍃

As always, you’ll find the reference, tracing template, materials list, and step-by-step video attached to this post.

I hope you enjoy painting these Golden Pears with me!

🎨Here’s the palette we’ll use in this lesson (substitutes in parentheses):

Cadmium Yellow Medium PY35 [Whits Nights] (Indian Yellow PY150 [M.Graham])

Lemon Yellow PY3 [Daniel Smith]

Light Ochre PY43 [Daniel Smith]

Ultramarine PB29 [Daniel Smith]

Burnt Umber PBr7 [Daniel Smith] (Van Dyke Brown PR102/PBk8 [Jackson's])

May Green PG7, PY151 [Schmincke] (May Green PG7/PY3 [White Nights])

Azo Orange PO62 [M. Graham] (Cadmium Orange PO20 [White Nights])

Chromium Oxide PG17 [Winsor & Newton]

Share your sketch:

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In our chat 🎨Dream&Draw Club: Sketches & Homework 👉 https://www.patreon.com/dreamanddrawschool/chats (or go to Community > Chats > 🎨Dream&Draw Club: Sketches & Homework)

Watch the preparatory lessons:

Materials video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sketching-80343147

Liner and Pencil Practice video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/liner-and-pencil-80344410

Watercolor Practice video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/watercolor-video-80345551