How to Start a Watercolor

Where to begin with a watercolor? This time I start loose, knowing I can paint my white accents in gouache. After a colored pencil lay-in, I lightly establish the local color, then the background tones, and finally I use white gouache to sharpen edges and paint the lighter values. VIDEOS SHOWING OTHER WAYS TO START: 1. Detailed, transparent only:    • Street Painting in Watercolor with James G...   2. Urban streetscape with fountain pen:    • Street Painting in Indiana   3. Watercolor and colored pencils:    • Watercolor + Colored Pencils = Fast, Reali...   WATERCOLOR PIGMENTS 1. Raw sienna: https://amzn.to/2PycXm8 2. Lemon yellow: https://amzn.to/34gV6UN 3. Cadmium red : https://amzn.to/2NrXEZA 4. Transparent red oxide: https://amzn.to/2Y6NhxD 5. Alizarin crimson: https://amzn.to/31YSOZa 6. Anthraquinone blue: https://amzn.to/2WrK1h8 7. Titanium white (gouache): https://amzn.to/2XSOld4 WATER MEDIA PAINT SETS • M. Graham gouache primary set: https://amzn.to/2Zwd6rt • Winsor & Newton gouache primary set: https://amzn.to/2JiDMbo • Holbein gouache set: https://amzn.to/2KW4s1j • Royal Talens gouache set (8 colors): https://amzn.to/2MGftGf • Shinhan Pass watercolor/gouache hybrid set: https://amzn.to/2xw7EvV • Caran d'Ache pan gouache set: https://amzn.to/2PfQTxX • Holbein Acryla Gouache (matte acrylic): https://amzn.to/2L0g3MT • M. Graham watercolor landscape set: https://amzn.to/2JpBAyy OTHER MATERIALS Pentalic watercolor sketchbook: https://amzn.to/2L989y2 Richeson travel brush set: https://amzn.to/2xwq1Rr Richeson “Grey Matters” brush set: https://amzn.to/2YeNO0P Connoisseur "cat's tongue" brush: https://amzn.to/2UaBJJj Water cup: https://amzn.to/2soTw2L Homemade easel: https://sellfy.com/p/LnZ8/ Tripod: https://amzn.to/2xrRaFc Water-soluble colored pencils set: https://amzn.to/2DKmT5o Water-soluble colored pencil: https://amzn.to/2J4QTJJ VIDEO TUTORIALS: “Watercolor in the Wild” https://gumroad.com/l/watercolor "Gouache in the Wild" https://gumroad.com/l/gouache “Casein Painting in the Wild” https://gumroad.com/l/casein "Gouache in the Wild" (DVD): http://kunaki.com/Sales.asp?PID=PX004... “How to Make a Sketch Easel” (DVD): http://kunaki.com/Sales.asp?PID=PX00Z... Animal Painting vid: https://gumroad.com/l/paintinganimals Casein in the Wild: https://gumroad.com/l/casein BLOG POSTS WITH MORE GEAR INFO: Gouache Materials List: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/201... Watercolor Materials: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/201... Check out the work of Louis Munroe, our artist-host at Rokeby: http://www.louismunroe.com/ BOOKS BY JAMES GURNEY: Color and Light: A Guide for Realist Painters: https://amzn.to/2JhWtfc Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist: https://amzn.to/2LbVHhc Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time: https://amzn.to/2xyamRM OTHER OFFICIAL SITES Instagram:   / jamesgurneyart   Pinterest:   / gurneyjourney   GurneyJourney Blog: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/ JamesGurney Website: http://jamesgurney.com/site/shop Facebook group "Sketch Easel Builders": https://www.facebook.com/groups/40300... “LIVING SKETCHBOOK” APP Experience one of James Gurney's sketchbooks on your smartphone or tablet. For iOS at iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/livin... For Android at Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de... CAMERAS and AUDIO: Canon M6 (time lapse, video, and stills): https://amzn.to/2J4RTgX Canon PowerShot Elph (point-and-shoot): https://amzn.to/2Ji1Vid Zoom H2N digital audio recorder: https://amzn.to/2XXAOfP Rode Video Mic GO (microphone): https://amzn.to/2UQGTc9 Thanks for ordering through my links. Any Amazon order you place through any of my links will give me a small royalty, at no extra cost to you, and that helps support my work.