Watercolor Painting Sunrise over The Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, Australia

Sunrise over The Three Sisters, Blue Mountians, Australia

Here is my latest watercolour painting. I think the title tells you all about it really. I particularly like this type of scene and feel it is just made for watercolour. It is mostly a wet on wet painting with warm and cool colours flowing into one another. The dark silhouette of the three sisters helps add to the feeling of space in the painting. As soon as I saw the scene I new I had to paint it!

The Three Sisters are a rock outcrop in the Blue Mountains, just outside of Sydney, Australia.

The painting’s dimensions are 56cm x 18 cm. It was painted on Arches Cold Press, 300 g.s.m. paper.

At some point I will post it as a demonstration on my Painting With Watercolors website, but not for a while as I need to wrap up a few other projects first.

Happy painting,

Joe

Reflections and Shadows when Painting with Watercolors

Figure 1: Reflections of buildings and boats, Mevagissey, Cornwall, UK

I have just posted an article on my Painting With Watercolors web site covering the topic of shadows and reflections with watercolor.

It is not meant to be an exhaustive article but more one that covers some point I have found students often have difficulty with their watercolor painting of these subjects.

I have just recently returned from a five week overseas trip during which I collected some very useful photographs on the subject of reflections and shadows which I have included in the article.

The article can be found here: Painting reflections and shadows

Happy painting,

Joe Cartwright

www.paintingwithwatercolors.com

Free Watercolor Video Demonstration - Boats,Reflections,Water and Sunsets

The above painting is of Shoal Bay at Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia.

I have just uploaded a free video watercolor demonstration of this watercolor painting onto my Painting With Watercolors demonstration site.

It can be viewed here: Painting Boats, Sunsets, Reflections and Water

I hope you like looking at the video which has been split into 6 parts.

I am considering offering the full DVD (better viewing than on computer) for sale at a future date.

Happy Painting,
Joe Cartwright
www.paintingwithwatercolors.com