I was trying to get familiar with the loose watercolour technique and wanted to get that ‘not trying too hard’ look. Found out that that takes especially more practice, planning and its probably the hardest look of them all! Oh well.

This was my second “on location” painting, but in the same location, looking at a different part of the kindergarten cycling track. I wanted to do this specifically for the stone arrangement behind the grass mound.

This is a watercolour painting done mainly in washes and with a little bit of detain for the foreground. I wasn’t sure how it would turn out, but – seems alright!

This was a wet in wet painting and was so much fun to do! I wet the whole page except for the two posts. I had to wet it a couple of times to get it wet enough and then I just dropped the colours in and let them do their thing. When everything was dry, I put in a few strokes and this painting was done in no time at all!

I used a mix of the different watercolour techniques that I had learned and tried this one. Quite simple, but looks cute!

Waves and water are really hard to do in watercolours as you mostly have to leave the whites in the right places to get the effect that you want. I then saw a tutorial on youtube where they use an opaque watercolour called gouache to add in the critical whites which could not be left during the course of the painting. I thought that was quite interesting. I did not have gouache, but I tried using white acrylic, which is opaque anyway and gave this ambitious watercolour breaking wave tutorial a shot!

A seascape and blends. Wanted to try a simple version of a wave coming on to the shore. So, here it is!

Why not try water in monochrome? Got inspiration from pinterest and tried this with just black and then orange. Did it in the line and wash style.