Painting by Fabio Cembranelli Tutorial in Artists & Illustrators https://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/how-to/how-to-paint-wisteria-in-watercolour/ “Wisteria is not an easy subject to paint in watercolour. If you suggest round shapes instead of drooping clusters, for example, it’s going to look like a climbing rose instead. Colour choice is important: the most well-known shades of wisteria are lavender, pink, violet and…
Category: Architectural Watercolor
How to Add Florals & Foliage to Architectural Paintings in Watercolor – Graham Booth Tutorial
Image and Tutorial Credit Artists & Illustrators https://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/how-to/watercolour/how-to-paint-jacaranda-trees/ This tutorial will show you how Grahame Booth mixes a brilliant purple watercolor and applies it to paint the flowering jacaranda trees that he added to the above painting: Palette: Quinacridone Magenta, French Ultramarine, Burnt Sienna Step 1: “Using a mix of Quinacridone Magenta and French Ultramarine,…
How to Render a Cottage in Wash and Pen & Ink – Grahame Booth Tutorial
Illustrators & Artists; “How to Capture a Cotswolds Cottage in Pen and Wash.” Artists & Illustrators, July 2021, www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/how-to/watercolour/how-to-capture-a-cotswolds-cottage-in-pen-and-wash. “Pen and wash is a brilliant medium for capturing architecture, as Grahame Booth shows in this guide to drawing a Cotswolds cottage. Photo Reference “Pen and wash is a very convenient and expressive sketching medium, one…
How to Paint Building and Street Scenes in Watercolor – Tutorial 2 – Painting with Graduated or Graded Washes- Grahame Booth
In this post, you will paint with watercolor washes that graduate or change within the wash itself. In the following article, Booth shows you how to create a graduated or graded wash: How to paint a graduated wash 1. DARK-TO-LIGHT Add more water to the mix for each line to achieve a dark-to-light wash. In…
How to Paint Building and Street Scenes in Watercolor – Tutorial 1 – Painting with Flat Washes- Grahame Booth
The above image shows the final step of Booth’s first tutorial in his book Street Scenes in Watercolor: In this tutorial, Booth demonstrates how to paint architectural details with flat washes. When painting with flat washes, the shadows are painted in second, third, etc., flat washes over the first wash that are darker in hue….