Paint A Warm Summer Evening Landscape In Watercolor

Learn how to infuse a watercolor painting with a warm glow that feels like summer – or a summer evening in this case. You’ll also paint some towering clouds and see how to take a simple plein air sketch use it as inspiration for a studio painting.

Capturing Warmth and Light in your Watercolor Paintings

In this watercolor lesson we’ll use a plein air sketch done in winter to create a warm summer evening landcape. Creating a sense of warmth in a painting is as simple as using the right set of colors. In this case we’ll create this painting using an Analogous Warm Color Scheme with Complement.

We’ll also paint towering summer clouds and work on getting good darks in the shade and shadow areas.

What you’ll need

• Brushes – 1 1/2″ Flat, 1″ Flat1″ Flat, 1/4″ Flat, Medium Round, Small Round, and Cotman #3 Rigger .
• Colors – Cadmium Yellow Medium, Quinacridone Deep Gold, Raw Sienna, DaVinci Cadmium Red Light, Winsor Newton French Ultramarine Blue , WN Cerulean Blue
• Watercolor paper – preferably Arches 140lb Cold Press cut to about 8″ x 10″ or so

Get ready, turn on the video and let’s jump in!

DOWNLOAD : INFO SHEET WITH DRAWING LAYOUT, ORIGINAL SKETCH, FINISHED PAINTING