Part 1 Using a limited palette and classic watercolour techniques, Colin Joyce begins a three-part seasonal landscape series to build your watercolour confidence

Colin Joyce

Watercolour

Ijust love winter as it transforms the landscape into something wonderful. A whole new range of painting subjects arise, which can’t happen any other time of year. Over the next three months I’m going to share my approach to using watercolour to capture the essence of this season.

Now, whilst I love painting outdoors, and do so all year around, I appreciate that not everyone wants to stand outside, painting in the cold for hours. Often I will work in the studio from photographs and quick sketches, which I make outdoors. I create all the reference material by the roadside so venturing off into the wilds to paint isn’t a requirement.

Not everything about winter is white snow and it’s important to include colour and shadow in your work so what is white will stand out.