How to Paint a Watercolor Night Scene using ONLY 2 COLORS
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Published 2023-01-04
In this video, I introduce you to the basic principles of how to approach and prepare for painting a nocturne. I use the same approach whether I am Urbansketching outdoors or sat at my desk.
The materials I use in this demo are as follows:
Paper: Lanaquarelle hot press paper, 300gsm, A4.
Paints: Azure (White Nights), Pyrrole Orange (Rembrandt), A small touch of Quinacridone Violet Rose (White Nights).
Assortment of 4-5 round brushes.
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All Comments (15)
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Night scenes are almost a complete genre of watercolour to explore in itself. It is a rare topic. Please do some others, you are clearly good at it. This is beautiful and I wonder what it would be if it was not, as you said, a study.
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A night scene, different and nice. Thank you.
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Hello, I saw your work on youtube for the first time today. Love how you work with colors. I immediately subscribed. Thank you for sharing your work. Greetings from the Netherlands.
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Very instructive! Thank you. Wonderful night scene
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Thank you so much for the amazing artwork show to us 🙏🏻
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This is absolutely stunning and it was amazing to watch!
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Epic stuff !! You earned my subscription
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Well explained and well done!
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wow!!!
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Wow it’s so impressive you managed to paint this on hot press 😂 I find it’s sooo difficult to get any smooth washes on hot press it’s a whole different experience than cold or rough press. I’ve been painting in watercolor for a number of years but I just recents switched from “painting in the lines” like a coloring book to painting 3 large connected washes and boy is it a learning curve! I can’t seem to make a single painting like that without panicking and making a mess of my painting but I’m still practicing.
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Thanks so much for showing this process, I learned some stuff! Really beautiful results you got, and I love how it's just 2 colors. If you find a good reference picture, could you do a low-contrast nocturne, perhaps a landscape that's lit by moonlight? Just a suggestion, whatever you post is always great!
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❤
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Hey buddy,, this is so good, how your painting is so loose and the darks so dark and the contrast of the light areas is amazing it really works so well and looks amazing. 😊👍
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This is another great demo. It looks like a monochrome painting. Is hot press watercolor paper similar to multi-media paper?
