Follow this step-by-step tutorial and learn how to paint a simple watercolour landscape, including advice on watercolour mixing.
Mixing colours for your watercolour landscape painting
Here are the mixes you’ll need to make for the demonstration. Always use the No. 8 Round to mix paint (not your smaller brushes). Below is the layout of the palette with the mixes shown.
Sky
- Ultramarine
Fence posts
- Ultramarine + light red = brown
Hill
- Take out a couple of brushfuls of ultramarine from the sky mix and dilute with water. Add a little light red to make purple. Test your colour on scrap paper.
Foliage green
- Squeeze out a pea size amount of permanent yellow and put four brushfuls of water into the well next to it.
- Mix some of the yellow into this then add a small amount of neat ultramarine to make green.
- Using the tip of your brush, add a little light red.
- Test the green on scrap paper.
- Stir and take out one brushful into an adjoining slant well and darken it by adding more neat ultramarine and light red. This will be your darker green.
Top Tip - Make sure you mix all the colours before you start painting the image.
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