Kategorie-Archive: WATERCOLOUR LANDSCAPES & MARITIMES

GREEN FIELDS, GREEN MEADOWS | Watercolour Step by Step landscape tutorial

Materials: PAPER: Watercolours 300 grams cold-pressed  36 × 51 cm (14” x 20”): COLOURS: Transparent Yellow or Aureoline, New Gamboge, Alizarin Crimson, Permanent Rose, Winsor Orange or (New Gamboge + 15% Alizarin Crimson), Perylene Green, Viridian Indigo,  Cobalt Blue and Ultramarine Blue. BRUSHES A big flat brush to wet the paper and a 25 mm (1”) […]

A SNOWY WINTER PATH : Watercolour winter landscape Step by Step tutorial.

Watercolour artwork tutorial of a snowy winter path

In this painting, the white spaces have been created using masking fluid and white opaque paint. Some additional branches and leaves have been painted with Chinese White or Permanent White in the last step. Permanent White is an opaque colour but does not remain white once dry; it tends to become a  little grey. I […]

VINEYARD IN AUTUMN: Watercolour landscape tutorial. Step by Step

WATERCOLOUR-VINEYARD-IN-AUTUM POSTER

I painted this picture inspired by a photo I made during an autumn holiday we made. La Provence is a lovely area in the south of France.  We have been so lucky to find a house to rent in the middle of a Vineyard. We had no neighbours and the only visitors were the dogs […]

WALK THE HORSES: Watercolour Autumn landscape tutorial. Step by Step

Watercolour artwork of horses in autumn landscape

WALK THE HORSES I painted this scene after a walk with my dogs nearby my house. It was a nice sunny evening when I reached the path nearby the horse’s farm. A girl was walking with two horses covered with white cover. The low sun gave the scene a wonderful, magic atmosphere. I could not […]

ASPEN APPROACHING THE AUTUMN: Watercolour step by step fall landscape tutorial.

ASPEN-APROACHING-THE-AUTUMN- Watercolour landscape painting by Maria Balcells.

I painted this picture inspired by a photo by Rosemary Clark. I loved the colours and shapes of the image and also this nice golden yellow of the aspen trees leaves. „Aspen approaching the autumn“  is the title, but I could have given to the painting „YELLOW QUARTET“ because I have painted it with four yellows. […]

POPPY FIELDS ON THE WAY TO PEDRERA: Watercolour spring flowers tutorial

Watercolour poppies landscape painting by Maria Balcells

I painted this picture a couple of years ago I wouldn’t say I liked it and painted it once again. Well maybe because these white country houses and the poppies flowers bring so many nice memories to me from the times I was living with my family in Ibiza. These white houses you find all […]

LA CURE GOURMANDE: Watercolour tutorial of a french Sweets Shop.

La Cure Gourmande is an over 100 years old fabric of sweets, chocolates, and cookies…but the shop is not that old. It was the idea of the enterprise to build a chain of shops around the country where people can buy the products that they create, with products and boxes inspired by the vintage style […]