How To Paint A Watercolor Landscape, Watercolor Painting For Beginners, Watercolor Quick And Easy

Hi there, I'm Rod, Rod Bergeron and thanks for joining me for another quick and easy watercolor painting. I really appreciate you stopping by and checking it out. So I'm wetting the top two-thirds of this page with a big three-quarter inch flat watercolor brush and I'm going to pick up some Payne's gray and I'm just going to swoop it across like that. I'm not going to try to augment it too much. I'm going to take this brush and put it into the water and back out because I need to pick up a little bit of extra water and I'm going to touch this which is my crimson red. And we just need a little bit of crimson red across the horizon like that, not any more than that. I'm going to rinse that brush back out and I'm going to pick up a little bit more Payne's gray. So across where that horizon line is and that crimson, I'm going to touch this Payne's gray and make a little bit more intense than that. I'm going to touch this Payne's gray onto that horizon line and we're just going to let that bleed to wherever it is it wants to bleed to. We're not going to try to augment it. I'm just going to tap it on there and let it do its own thing. And so its own thing should be that it's bleeding from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration and that's what we're going for. You see how it's starting to come out of there and up into the sky. That's what we're going for. So we're going to take this brush and put it into our Payne's gray and we're going to put a nice light line across there in Payne's gray. And again, we're just going to let that bleed off to wherever it is it's going to go to. I'm going to rinse this brush out and I'm going to pick up some sienna, fairly intense sienna, and I'm going to touch this sienna. I need a little bit more intense than that. I'm going to touch this sienna across this horizon line, wherever it is that you think you want your sienna trees to be. So we're kind of going for an early spring kind of a look here. Nothing is really growing yet and we have this sort of very early evening pinkiness to the sky which we get quite often here. I just swooped that sienna, so this is burnt sienna, across there again and we're just letting it bleed to wherever it is it's going to go to. I'm going to pick up a little bit more slightly more saturated sienna from my palette and again I'm just going to tap that in a few places and I'm going to do the same across here. We're letting that bleed off to wherever it is it wants to go to. We're trying to not augment it too much at all. You can see what we're getting back in here. That's some really nice looking undergrowth that we have there. This is yellow ochre and I'm picking it right up off my palette and I'm just going to tap it in a few places. I'm going to do the same thing here. A couple of places with some yellow ochre and we're going to let that just bleed off to wherever it is it wants to go to. Now I rinsed this brush out pretty well. This is again still with my three quarter inch flat and I'm going to pick up some this is a very thin super thin sort of Payne's gray wash and I'm going to put this flat onto the page and so I'm going to try to just go from one side to the other sort of jagged like that. Now I'm going to pick up the Payne's gray slightly more slightly more intense and that's what I'm going to do just swoop it across like that. I'm going to put a little bit more intense Payne's gray just in a few places like that. You can see that this pink has started to bleed up into that sky. We've got this really nice sort of bleeding thing on there. All right I just rinsed my brush out really well and I just want to go across that line. I don't really want that hard line that was on there. I'm going to pick up a little bit more Payne's gray. I'm just going to go across there like that. That's it. Okay I think I'm going to do one more thing here before I let this dry. I'm just going to put a little bit of this is Payne's gray and you can see I'm tapping it onto those few places there like that and I'm going to take my number one watercolor brush and I've sharpened the one end of it with the utility knife. I'm just going to put a few scribe lines in a few places along there. Create a little bit of you know growth that's sort of near us. Now you could use whatever you want to use in here. You could use sienna black you know even even something like van dyke brown whatever anything like that. You just want to scribe in something that's going to be close to you. All right now we're going to let this completely dry. All right let's take a look at this. This took about well over two hours for it to dry. Look what happened to this pink in the background back here how it's bled into that Payne's gray and it's bled down here and all these colors are bled up into there to give us this tree line back there. That's fantastic and then this scribe marks across here leaving that little bit of white on there for the snow. Let's put our mat on here and see what we get. Yeah that's pretty cool. I like it. I love to know what you think of it. Let me know in the comment section and if you're currently a subscriber thank you very much and if you're not currently a subscriber please consider subscribing to my channel. Thanks a lot for watching today and we'll see you again next time. Yeah look at that little bit of negative space across there. What that's done for us. Yeah these trees here that's pretty cool.