Leisure Painter

Painting project

Learning objectives

  • Plan your composition, leaving white paper to represent snow
  • Work with different brushes to create different effects
  • How to paint from the photograph, deciding what to leave in and what to leave out

You will need

■ Surface

• Bockingford NOT watercolour paper 10×15in. (25.5×38cm)

■ Watercolour

  • Blue (ultramarine or cobalt)
  • Phthalo blue or Winsor blue (green shade)
  • Cadmium red
  • Raw sienna or yellow ochre
  • Burnt sienna

■ Brushes

  • One-stroke flat or hake, 1in. (25mm), for sky and

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