Sunset Welsh Landscape and Wild Grasses

Sunset Welsh Landscape and Wild Grasses, with watercolour and masking fluid. Based on a photography taken by a good friend Lowri Davies

Materials

Sketching

HB Pencil and a putty rubber

Brushes

Filbert No.20, Round No. 6 & 9, Rigger No.2 a stiff bristle fan brush No. 4.
and
an old brush to use with masking fluid (or a official masking fluid brush if you have one)

Sunset by Lowri Davies

Welsh Landscape with Wild grasses, November 2019
Photograph Lowri Davies

Watercolours

A set of Watercolours pans or tubes i.e: Good Value Medium Quality Watercolour Tubes such as a 24 tube set of Reeves watercolours or for a better quality Jackson's Art Winsor & Newton are great.

Colours

Cadmium Yellow,
Raw Sienna,
Burnt Umber,
Ultramarine,
Magenta,
Colbalt blue
and Viridian Green

Masking Fluid

I use an old brush but before I dip it into the masking fluid I cover the bristles with a small amount of washing up liquid so that it slides easier on the paper and cleans of the brush better. if you have an official masking fluid brush then this will not be necessary.

Masking Tape

Low tac or cheap (ish) Masking Tap is good for taping your watercolour paper to a drawing board all the way around. This will help the painting dry back flat after the wet and wet washes.

Drawing board

A lightwieght drawing board slightly bigger than A3 is great for watercolours a to a firm surface to work on to tape your paper too.

Table Top / Portable Easel

Placing your board on your easel at a 45 degree angle to your profile is much better than working flat. Its better for your neck! and creating correct proportions and the using the pull of gravity for certain wet in wet techniques.

Watercolour paper

300 gsm textured, acid free paper is best for watercolours. I often use Daler Rowney, Aquafine, Texture Pad A3 which has 50 sheets and is very good value with losing quality. Considering the amount I go through thats just as well. There are much better papers, but anything less quality than the paper mentioned will led to problems especially when using wet in wet washes.