3 Easy Landscapes to paint today!

Hi friends! Today I am going to show you how to paint 3 landscapes. This is a great project to showcase any granulating watercolors you have. Even if you haven’t purchased special granulating paints you likely have some in your stash already if you have basic colors.

Watch the video for the full, real-time, step-by-step instructions and tips for getting the most from your paint!

Granulation is the textured effect some watercolors have in wet washes where sedimentary pigments separate and settle out from other colors. It is currently a very popular look. Ultramarine, cerulean, mars black, cobalt colors and some cadmiums have this quality and you might already have them! I have a blog post here that shows swatches of my DIY granulating palette using watercolors I already had. You can use the chart and pigment info to compare what you have that may work before purchasing more paint. Don’t get overwhelmed, painting should be fun!

Tips for enhancing granulation:

1. Use heavily sized paper.

2. Paint in very wet washes.

3. Let paint dry naturally undisturbed (don’t fuss with it or you will just stir the paint up again LOL!)

4. Add salt to your water.

Resources (contains affiliate links)

• A little Creative on Etsy sells Renesans Tubes at an affordable price and you can save 10% with the coupon code FRUGAL10 My favorite Rensans granulating colors are: Renesans #22 Bordeax Cadmium PR108, Renesans #25 Maganase Violet PV16, Renesans #26 Ultramarine Violet PV16, PB29

• Turner also has some nice granulating colors: Ultramarine Blue Deep, Mars Black and Mars Violet (it’s more of a brown FYI) and you can snag then for $5 a 15ml tube when they are on super sale at Jerrys. Warning, they are 3x the price on Amazon and I would not recommend paying that much because you could get Schminke for that LOL!

• Schminke has a full line of granulating watercolors that are lovely, albeit expensive but if you are interested Blick has a good price.

• Daniel Smith has some nice granulating colors, I have Serpentine genuine, Colbalt Teal and Sodalite in sticks which I prefer as they are more cost effective and already dried down in a formula that rewets easy (I have used DS tube paints in the Primatek like and found them harder to rewet.)

• Masha’s watercolors are the ones in the wooden palette I used and they are gorgeous. They are handmade and expensive but lovely nonetheless. You can see an unbox and swatch of this palette here and visit Masha’s shop here.

• Here are the Mimik faux squirrel brushes I use.

• Here are the talkon ones durable and good for agitating paint and they are good for painting with too! They won’t hold as much water as the Mimiks tho.

I hope you found this info useful and you find some time to paint today! Happy crafting!