Would Olly please do a YouTube Video featuring a Building/Structure?
I am a new member of the forum and taking the Watercolor course on Patreon. Retired University Professor in the US learning watercolors for the last few years.
"Forgotten Farmyard" was posted by Olly on Instagram and Facebook yesterday. It is excellent. I looked at all of the videos on YouTube but could not see and specific video featuring a structure as the center of interest. Yes, landscapes do have houses, barns, sheds, OAST, and so on. Yes, Olly is a Landscape Artist concentrating on fields, woods, rivers, lakes but also includes boats and shore scenes.
Buildings could add to our knowledge of texture, shadow, proportions and perspective.
By the way, this is a great Forum!
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It's wrong to think a barn is treated different than a field of grass.
It needs washes, only in colours that fit the building, so are foregrounds no more, than you paint a sky in earthcolours. A building is not more than a square or rectangle. Details make it a barn or a house.
And I know on his Patreon he have a lesson how to tackle an old barn.
No video, but a step by step guide.
And you could practise that.
A film is more easy?
Well, we paint since 1987, and watercolour was never easy.
A paint along video just learn you that particular barn. But the following barn is in a different angle or shape.
I have seen all the videos Oliver have made, and there is more then enough techniques to paint a building.
And yes, maybe it will not succeed the first or fiftht time. But that is part of the hobby and journey.
And by trying and learning you discover your own style.