Watercolor Landscape Painting: How to Paint with a Limited Palette using only Primary Colors?

1. Introduction: Hi, I'm one-off re, welcome to my Skillshare class. I'm a watercolor artist or a teacher and a triangle. I love painting in watercolor is my favorite medium. No other medium creates the unpredictable, yet captivating, colorful blooms that watercolor does. I always maintained a ready-to-use palette, which lets me paint anytime with minimum preparation. I have been conducting in-person workshops since 2021 in my Amsterdam apartment. Teaching to paint gives me the opportunity to share what I've learned and in the process to learn as well. I love traveling. I've been to over 35 countries. I consider myself very fortunate to have lived and worked for different countries. India, UK, US, and the Netherlands. I'm currently based in Amsterdam. I love meeting new people and learning about different cultures. I believe that even though our backgrounds, countries, and cultures are different, we are one at the core. You can find me on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, and Twitter by searching for more now free art. In this class, we're going to paint a simple landscape using only the three primary colors, red, blue, and yellow. I'll also show you how to create secondary colors needed for this landscape. This is a very relaxing and fun landscape which you can paint in under 30 min. So follow along and paint with me. 2. Materials: You'll need paper brushes and colors for this painting. I usually use cold pressed or rough for all my paintings. You can use arches Saunders or by Hong, I'm using behind graph for this landscape painting. You're only going to use the primary colors, blue, red, and yellow. And mixer own secondary colors. I use French ultramarine from Daniel Smith, cadmium red from Winsor and Newton, and raw sienna from Holbein as my primary colors. If you don't have the same colors, you can use any blue, red, or yellow. I use three brushes for all my watercolor paintings, or Bob brush from Silver velvet size for T, for large washes. A smaller mob from Da Vinci, size two for middle washes, and a round synthetic brush size ten for details, you can use whichever brushes you have available. 3. Prep Paper and First Wash: You can pause here and sketch or check my template in projects and resources section. This is my palette. As I mentioned earlier, we're only going to use three colors for this landscape painting. Ultramarine blue, raw sienna, and cadmium red. I'm using a natural sponge to wet the back and the front of my people. Do things will happen. First, the paper will stick to my board, which means I won't have to use a tape. Second, the paper will stay wet for a long time for me to apply my washes. I'm also going to show you my palette on the right side so that you can see how I mix my colors. For this painting, we are only going to use three colors, ultramarine blue, raw sienna, and cadmium red. For the first wash, I use my big mop brush. I mix a nice fluid puddle of ultramarine blue. Once I'm satisfied with the puddle, I start painting the sky. And don't worry about the mountains, as we will paint them later with a dark color. I will deal with silos and bonds. In my second wash. I take more ultramarine blue and go over the sky again to get a graded wash, which means more value on the top part of the sky and lighter value in the horizon. It's time to paint the foreground. But before that, I need to rinse my brush properly. I make a puddle of raw sienna and a touch of blue. And start tackling the foreground. And I'm still using my blob brush because this is my first wash. My paper is still very wet, so I'm going to go over the sky again. I feel it needs more value. If your paper is dry at this stage, you can skip this behind paper takes a long time to dry. So I have an added advantage to go over my washes. 4. Second Wash: For my second wash, I'm using my smaller mob WG size to my paper is completely dry. I add a touch of cadmium red in my blue mixture to paint the mountain. On the right. I rinse my brush, make a puddle of raw sienna and a touch of ultramarine blue and cadmium red to paint the mountain where I left. I add more raw sienna in my mixture and blue. And once I'm satisfied with the color, I start painting the mountain. And while I'm painting the mountain, I also tackle the bonds in silos at the same time. I take a smaller synthetic is called a brush and paint the bonds with the light bluish color which I already have in my palette. Coming back to the mountain with my Da Vinci brush, I add more blue, raw sienna, and cadmium red to paint the rest of the mountain. I take my scatter brush again. I draw sienna. I touch of cadmium red, and a touch of my mountain mixture to paint the silo. For the roof of the bond, I take a very light mixture of blue. And for the bond itself, or take cadmium red and add the already mixed prove mixture. I take the same red mixture for the other bond. Basically, I'm playing with the same mixture I have on my palette. I color the roof of this bond with a blue mixture, which was already there on my palette. And then I grabbed the same silo mixture for the other bond. Okay, now I need to clean my palette to make room for the foreground color. Since we're painting this landscape with only three colors, I'm going to play around with primary and secondary colors for painting the foreground, I make a puddle of raw sienna, touch of cadmium red and already mixed green and start tackling the second wash of my foreground. I want my foreground to look interesting. So I add cadmium red and blue here and there. 5. Adding Texture and Darks: Once the paper reaches the dam stage, I start creating texture in the foreground with my needs. If your paper is wet or moist, you won't be able to create texture as the color will run into it. You can also use a credit card if you don't want to use your needs. The dam stage in the paper is achieved once the sheen has disappeared. It's time to clean my palette to make space for my dogs. I'm making my docs using the same three colors as before. I start with raw sienna. I'd cadmium, red and blue. And then make a nice variety of blues, yellows, and reds. My people is 90% dry. I use a smallest synthetic is called a brush to create foliage in the mountain. I take the same dark mixture and create texture in the foreground. It's time to add darks in advance. I take cadmium red in the already mixed green to neutralize it, and I go over the bonds. For my silo, I add raw sienna in my pre-mixed mixture. For the roof of my bond. On the left, I add blue in the already mixed green mixture and go over the ban. And they also use the same blue mixture for the other two bands on the right. The painting is finished. 6. Thoughts and Class Project: Hope you had fun watching this video. I'm eager to see your work. Please feel free to add your work in the class projects section and see you in my next class.