Winter in watercolour
Part 3 In the final part of his watercolour series, Colin Joyce demonstrates how to find and paint the patterns of a winter landscape
Watercolour
Colin Joyce
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
■Practise the wet-in-wet technique
■ How to adapt a photograph into a painting
■ Build your colour-mixing confidence
For the final part of my series on painting winter scenes in watercolour, I am venturing out into the countryside to look for interesting patterns in the landscape. A covering of snow, whether it is just a light dusting or a thick blanket, transforms the landscape into wonderful patterns, which may not be evident in other seasons.
A zoom lens on a camera is useful for spotting potential subjects, and compressing distances and perspective thereby doing the cropping for you. If you paint outdoors, I suggest taking a little viewfinder with you to help visualise your painting. These are available to buy in art stores or you can make your own from a piece of card; just cut out an aperture to suit the dimensions of your canvas or paper.
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Welcome to the March issue of Leisure Painter. Winter is such a good season to practise and experiment with techniques and media that can be used to good effect when you are painting on the move this summer. Within this month's pages you will find a plethora of practical advice, demonstrations and tutorials to help you develop your skills and confidence in graphite and coloured pencils, watercolour, acrylics, oil, pastels and more. Whether you want to learn drawing skills for line and wash, paint animals in oils or seasonal landscapes in watercolour, there's something here for you. Further your skills as you learn the value of acrylic highlights on less-than-perfect watercolours, how to produce abstracts with collage and colour fields, and paint watercolour flowers with botanical accuracy. Enjoy your month of painting with Leisure Painter.