How to Paint Loosely with Watercolour 

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This painting and video is all about how to paint loosely and freely with watercolour. Painting wet in wet with watercolour lends itself to painting loosely and this occurs much more easily if you use hake brushes. My advice is, if you would like to paint more loosely then use hake brushes, just paint shapes not things and paint wet in wet with a limited palette. I hope you enjoy this video!
0:00 Beginning Advice on Painting Loosely
2:30 Alizarin Crimson Sky
3:00 Cerulean Blue Part of the Sky
4:20 Cobalt Blue and Light Red Clouds and Reflections
6:35 Strengthen the Clouds
8:00 Tape off Horizon and Lift out Light
9:40 Painting in the Land
11:13 Detail with a Rigger Brush
13:52 Lifting out Light on the Horizon
15:00 Using a Razor to Lift out a Strong Line on the Horizon
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Paper:
Arches A4 Cold Pressed 300gsm Watercolour Paper
Paints:
Alizarin Crimson Permanent
Cerulean Blue
Mix of Cobalt Blue and Light Red
Mix of Winsor Blue (red shade) and Light Red
Brushes:
2 Inch Holbein Hake
1 Inch Holbein Hake
Pure Kolinsky Round Sable Size 12
Riggers x2
Series 7 Round Sable by Winsor and Newton Size 0 to sign it
Brushes:
Brushes are important but you don’t need a huge number to be able to paint really well! I love Holbein Hake Brushes as they are softer, have less thickness and so hold a bit less water than the Ron Ranson Hake Brushes (which I like as it gives me more control). I like the thickness of the handle (thinner and lighter than the Ron Ranson Hakes) and the overall weighting of them. But having said all of that you could probably use any sort of hake (although I don’t love Art Spectrum’s Hakes).
Size 12 Round Sable
Pure Kolinsky Round Sable Size 12 - Cornellisen (quite expensive over $150)
geni.us/PureKolinskySableSize
geni.us/IsabeyPureKolinsky
or
Synthetic Round Sable Size 12 - Micadore For Artists - roymac Revolution Taklon - ($20)
geni.us/SyntheticRound
Hake Brushes x 3-4 (you could also get a wide 6”-8” hake brush if you wanted to)
Holbein 2.5” Hake Brush (my preference)
Holbein 2” Hake Brush (my preference)
Holbein 1” Hake Brush (my preference)
geni.us/HolbeinHakeBrush
or
Ron Ranson Large Hake Brush (about 2”)
Ron Ranson Small Hake Brush (about 1”)
geni.us/RonRanson
Flat Nylon
Long Flat Nylon - Robert Wade Neef 980 Taklon Wash: geni.us/RobertWadeNylon
Fan Brush
Fan Brush (I own size 1’s mainly and a size 6) - can be any brand really - I own two Winsor and Newton size 1 fan brushes and an Art Spectrum Series 1000FAN size 6.
I would get Hogs Hair Fan Brushes as they make more interesting marks but that is always personal preference. Some cheap ones on amazon are on the link below:
geni.us/DugatoFanBrushSet
Small Round Sable
Series 7 size ‘0’ Winsor and Newton Finish Round Sable (lovely small brush but more expensive than synthetic): geni.us/Series7WinsorandNewton
A cheaper alternative to the series 7 round sable is: Size 00 Winsor and Newton Cotman Round
geni.us/CotmanRound00
Mixing Brushes
Jasart 577 brushes Size 12 - for mixing brushes - you can get any hogs hair brushes you might use for oil paints. Very cheap! The link below is for a set of oil paint filberts which are perfect!
geni.us/HogsHairMixingBrushes
Other brushes you could get to help with your watercolours
Rigger Brush
Sable Regal Rigger Legend Size 1: geni.us/RegalRigger
or
Art Spectrum Size 2 Pure Sable Liner
This Princeton ones are also very good: geni.us/PrincetonLinerSize1
geni.us/PrincetonLiner2
Other:
Spray Bottle Large Garden One: geni.us/AdjustableSprayBottle
Small Spray Bottle for a Finer Spray: geni.us/SmallSprayBottle
MDF Board: geni.us/MDFBoard
Bowls for the paints: geni.us/WhiteBowls
Jars for the water: geni.us/GlassJars
Vase for the water: geni.us/SquareVase or
geni.us/LargeWashingOutJar
Razor Blade: geni.us/StanleyRazorBlades
Small Knife: geni.us/SwissArmyCard
Pencil B, HB or 2B: geni.us/StaedtlerPencils
Tweezers from a Swiss Card: geni.us/SwissArmyCard
Scotch 3M Magic Tape (Green Packet): geni.us/ScotchMagicTape19mm
Scotch 3M Removable Tape (Blue Packet): geni.us/ScotchRemovableTape
Aligloss - used as my desktop and palette: geni.us/AliglossCompositePanel
Tony Smiberts Books
Turners Apprentice: A Watercolour Masterclass: geni.us/TurnersApprentice
Painting Landscapes from your Imagination: geni.us/TrlbvxR
How to Paint Like Turner: geni.us/PaintLikeTurner
How Turner Painted: geni.us/HowTurnerPainted