An Introduction to Watercolour Painting (episode 4): Wash techniques

Here Jem Bowden visits Glastonbury to capture the iconic Tor. He demonstrates ways to approach the challenge of a flat landscape and broad sky, and explains how to highlight busy and quiet areas to create a wide open plain ...

Let’s take a look at the scene we’ll be painting, as well as looking at an example with similar compositional aspects.

Jem takes us through soft-meet-shard edges and demonstrates how timing and other slight variations will affect the outcome.