HeyJaredWatercolour Workout
One watercolour exercise every week so you can make progress through practice.
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Live Recording - Painting Clouds (opens the original)
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Clouds, Two Ways (opens the original)
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Skies are the perfect subject for watercolour. Most landscapes have one, and it sets the time of day and the mood. Even leaving the sky out is a statement in itself.Painting skies is such important practice that John Constable had a word for it. He called it "skying1". A year ago we painted clouds by saving the white of the clouds with negative painting. I wrote that skies are best painted fast, with no going back to fix things.Unless… we use l
Autumn Leaves (opens the original)
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Autumn is approaching in the northern hemisphere, and leaves are turning from green to yellow, red and brown. Next time you see one you might even find every stage of the change on a single leaf.Inside it the yellow was there all summer, hidden under the green. As the green fades, the yellow shows through, and trees like maples then create new reds on top. The autumn leaf builds its colour in layers.Watercolour does the same, because it’s transparent. Once you paint another colour over a dry was
Hard and Soft Edges (opens the original)
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Most of us treat edges as something that happens to us. We paint the shapes, the water does what it likes, and we deal with the result at the end. It works the other way round. Edges are a decision you make before the brush touches the paper.In the exercises below we’ll practice controlling them. That means getting comfortable with timing, water control, and decision-making instead of letting the paint do whatever it wants, and hope for the best.I first posted this back in early 2025, when I sta
Walking figures add movement (opens the original)
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A landscape without people is a view. Add a figure and it becomes a place with a story.This is the third time we’ve looked at figures. In People Are People we broke a person down into a few simple shapes. In People Watching we worked on suggesting people with marks rather than drawing them, which turned out to be one of the most popular posts.In both of those we painted figures standing still. A standing figure is great for scale, but a walking figure gives movement, a
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