![]() I want to suggest hazy autumnal trees in the background. You can drag a round brush sideways for a rougher brush mark but it’s still a bit of a fight to get the kind of irregularity that a bamboo brush offers. A round brush is just a bit too springy and neat, I find. The loose floppy hair of a bamboo brush is perfect for painting loose irregular foliage. I’m using a bamboo brush for 90% of this painting. To facilitate speed, I have my initial colours already mixed and ready to go. This means working quite quickly as the paper needs to be shiny wet not just damp. I’m going to paint a the background first. I started at the top half of the paper, painting a wash of clean water with a good sized flat brush and working my way down to the line where the foliage meets the lake’s edge. This will ensure that the colour flows in a predictable direction, although, half the fun of this technique is that the results are never completely predictable. When painting wet into wet, it’s particularly important to angle the paper at about 30 degrees. Please click here for a complete list of my recommended art supplies. ![]() Swordliner Brush ( For thin tree branches etc) Buy from AmazonĪrches Watercolor Paper Block, Cold Press, 9″ x 12″, 140 pound Buy from Amazon MiscĮasy release painters masking tape Buy from Amazon Winsor & Newton No.6 Round Bamboo Brush (Great for foliage) Buy from Amazon Prussian Blue: Winsor & Newton | Daniel SmithĬadmium Yellow: Winsor & Newton | Daniel SmithĪlizarin Crimson: Winsor & Newton | Daniel Smithĭioxazine Purple: Winsor & Newton| Daniel Smith Brushes ![]() Raw Sienna: Winsor & Newton | Daniel Smith Ultramarine Blue: Winsor & Newton | Daniel Smith I’ve linked to where you can purchase the paints and the other art materials I used from Amazon.Ĭerulean Blue: Winsor & Newto n | Daniel Smith ![]() It’s possible to get a great result within a few attempts, it doesn’t require you to have superhuman drawing skills and it’s a wonderful way to explore the wet into wet technique. This kind of painting is a great one for beginners to have a go at. In this post, I’ll demonstrate step by step how to how to paint reflections in watercolour with a demonstration of a scene of trees and foliage reflected in the calm waters of a gently flowing river. Loose, spontaneous wet into wet painting. It’s a fun subject to paint and it plays to one of watercolour’s biggest strengths. Painting watercolour landscape scenes with reflections on water are fairly easy to do. ![]()
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