Watercolor sunsets for beginners

Sunset Mountain Watercolor: A Step-by-Step Tutorial – BUJO ART

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In today’s post, I’m sharing my approach to painting gradient watercolor skies. The first approach is my simple method and the second approach is a little more complex. Gradient skies serves as useful backgrounds of landscapes and are a great way to practice how to paint color transitions.

A watercolor tutorial with some fun and simple to follow abstract watercolor paintings - great for beginners or intermediate artists

Improve your art and learn how to paint an easy watercolour painting by following along to this step-by-step watercolour tutorial for beginners.

"Sunset ii", watercolour painting, 7.5 x 11" SOLD This is the second sunset demo from my class on Wednesday morning. This time, I painted the clouds on dry, white paper, puddling in the colour, and then put the lower sky with the pale yellow in afterwards. When that was dry, I put in another layer in the lower sky of duller orange, leaving the bright yellow to shine underneath the clouds. The colours of the clouds are a bit brighter on this painting, because they were put on white paper…

Don’t worry if your first sunset painting doesn’t come out to be perfect. It doesn’t have to be. Just keep practicing Acrylic ideas and you will get there. As I said, you can never go wrong with a sunset.

"Sunset i", watercolour painting, 7.5 x 11" SOLD I did two sunset demonstrations for my experienced beginner watercolour class this morning. This is the first one. It began by painting a graded wash over the entire sky area, lemon yellow at the horizon and grading through gamboge, to an orange made with gamboge and quinacridone rose and/or scarlet lake, and ending with pale thalo blue. Then the clouds were painted on top of the dry sky. Edges were softened and colour puddled to add interest…