Easy Textured Landscape | Lunar Black Watercolour Technique

Welcome to this month's video! We're exploring a painting technique using Lunar Black pigment and the fascinating effects of granulating watercolours. Watch as I apply black pigment to create a landscape painting with rolling hills, then add a tree silhouette to complete the scene. I explain the process step-by-step, showing how to paint this artwork. Happy Painting Everyone! Link to Nicolas Lopez:   / nicolas.lopez.art   To find out more about Watercolour Landscapes for Beginners click the link below: www.scottswinsonclasses.com/courses Paper: Arches Cold Pressed, 300gsm, Watercolour Paper, 100% Cotton, half a sheet (56cm x 38cm) Paint: Daniel Smith Lunar Black Brushes: Fan Brush size 4 Holbein Hake Brush 2" Holbein Hake Brush 1.5” Holbein Hake 1” Size 12 Pure Kolinsky Round Sable Rigger Size 0 ProArte - 103 England Hacked up fan brush size 4 Flat Nylon Small Series 7 Round Sable Size 0 for the Other: Gator Board Spray Bottle Tissues Hair Dryer Fine Mister Spray Bottle Happy Painting Everyone! 0:00 Intro 1:40 Applying the Lunar Black 4:00 Spraying the Water 12:13 Painting in the Trees 16:00 Painting in the Sky 20:00 Suggestion of Water Paper - if you can afford it try and use Arches Cold Pressed 300gsm paper or any other 100% cotton paper. Sheets most of the time are the cheapest way to go. I can get Hahnemuhle sheets (53cm x 78cm) for $11.50 Australian from my local art store when buying them one at a time. This gives me 16 sheets of A5 which is much cheaper than buying a pad. If you can afford to buy 50 sheets at a time that can save you a lot of money! Arches A4 Cold Pressed 300gsm 100% Cotton Pad: https://geni.us/Arches300gsmPad Arches A3 Cold Pressed 300gsm 100% Cotton Pad: https://geni.us/Arches9x12Pad Arches A3 Block if you wanted to use that instead of tape to a board: https://geni.us/ArchesWatercolourPaper Alternatives to Arches Paper: Saunders Waterford Watercolour Paper Sheets 300gsm cold pressed 100% cotton from your local art supplies store. Or the links from amazon below. Sheets of 425gsm:https://geni.us/SaundersWaterford Block 9”x12”: https://geni.us/SaundersWaterfordBlock Hahnemuhle Etching Paper Sheets 300gsm (75% cotton 25% high alpha cellulose) https://geni.us/HahnemuhleEtchingPaper Stonehenge Paper Sheets 20” x 30”: https://geni.us/StonehengePaper Baohong Watercolour Blocks: Much cheaper than Arches and good quality paper https://geni.us/bahongwatercolorblock Any other 100% cotton, cold pressed, acid free papers The other paper I use a huge amount is Rives BFK Etching Paper by Arches 280gsm, 100% cotton, white, 56cm x 76cm sheets: https://geni.us/RivesBFKEtching Paints - you only need 6 colours for this course. You can use Winsor and Newton artist quality or Cotman student quality paints. You can use other brands but the colours and names will be different. The colours are: Yellow Ochre Paynes Grey Raw Umber Burnt Umber Cobalt Blue Light Red You will also mix up a grey in a separate bowl using Cobalt Blue and Light Red Cotman Student Quality Paints Cobalt Blue amazon: https://geni.us/cotmancobaltblue Light Red amazon: https://geni.us/cotmanlightred Yellow Ochre amazon: https://geni.us/cotmanyellowochre Winsor and Newton Artist Quality Paints (If you can afford it I would encourage you to buy these!) Cobalt Blue amazon: https://geni.us/WinsorNewtonCobaltBlue Yellow Ochre amazon: https://geni.us/YellowOchreTube Light Red amazon: https://geni.us/LightRedTube Brushes - you only need 6 brushes and a couple of cheap mixing brushes. Size 12 Round Sable Pure Kolinsky Round Sable Size 12 - Cornellisen (quite expensive over £150) https://geni.us/PureKolinskySableSize https://geni.us/IsabeyPureKolinsky or Synthetic Round Sable Size 12 - Micadore For Artists - roymac Revolution Taklon - ($20) https://geni.us/SyntheticRound Hake Brushes x 2 Holbein 2” Hake Brush (my preference) Holbein 1” Hake Brush (my preference) https://geni.us/HolbeinHakeBrush or Ron Ranson Large Hake Brush (about 2”) Ron Ranson Small Hake Brush (about 1”) https://geni.us/RonRanson Flat Nylon Long Flat Nylon (¾” wide and 1” long bristles) - Robert Wade Neef 980 Taklon Wash: https://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: https://geni.us/DugatoFanBrushSet Small Round Sable Series 7 size ‘0’ Winsor and Newton Finish Round Sable (lovely small brush but more expensive than synthetic): https://geni.us/Series7WinsorandNewton