How to Paint Shimmering Water in Watercolor - 3 Techniques explained!

Watercolor Tutorial and step by step demo of a scene from Istanbul. The Golden Horn, looking across to a ferry station and the Süleymaniye Mosque.

This video features:
Choice of painting subject
Composition
Drawing skills
Various watercolor techniques and 3 ways to produce shimmering water in bright light

Painting Steps:
0:00 Introduction and composition
5:48 Materials and Equipment for this watercolor painting
11:00 Using a thumbnail sketch to plan the painting
18:22 Outline drawing
27:00 Painting the first wash and the sky
33:32 How to paint the sea with shimmering light
1:03:44 Painting the background and mosque
1:31:04 Using a bit of white paint!

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TIP: At the start of this video, I show my source photograph for the painting. If you want to keep referring to this during the video, then copy the URL of the video into another browser Tab or Window on your device. Run the video again, but of course pause it at the start where I show the source photo. In Chrome, you can also right-click on the tab and select ‘Duplicate’.

The paper I use and recommend is Saunders Waterford.

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