Beginners’ watercolour
Learning objectives
- Use two yellows and two blues to mix a range of spring greens
- Paint a simple landscape
You will need
- Pink Pig sketchbook 140lb NOT surface, A4
- Winsor & Newton Professional Water Colour (tubes): cadmium lemon, Winsor yellow, Winsor blue (green shade) & cobalt blue
- Tin mixing palette
- Rosemary & Co Series 401 Round No. 6 brush
- Pro Arte Series 100 Round No. 8 brush
- 2B pencil & putty rubber
Spring is a lovely season for the artist. The days become longer and warmer, the bluebells and daffodils compete for attention and, because the sun is higher in the sky, the shadows tend to reflect more colour than during the winter months. What really takes my eye, however, are the fresh greens that sprout from the newly formed leaves. It’s those fresh green colours that I look for when searching for a subject at this time of the year.
