3 Simple Watercolour Exercises using Lines and Stripes

Perfect for beginners to watercolour, these exercises are great for getting to know your paints, brushes and to play with colour, not to mention they're incredibly relaxing and satisfying to paint. I hope you enjoy them!

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In this video I painted using a Princeton Neptune size 6 pointed round brush and a Pro Arte Prolene One Stroke Brush in size 3/16.

I used the following colours:
QoR Watercolours in Quinacridone Gold and Quinacridone Magenta
Daniel Smith Watercolours in Buff Titanium, Quinacridone Burnt Orange and Moonglow.

I was painting on Stonehenge 300gsm cold pressed watercolour paper cut to 5x7 inches.

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[polgara]

What a lovely way to get in some brush control exercises. Thank you for this!

[anneadamczewski]

Great exercises to play & practice.with brush, water & pigment 👏

[sofiag]

Great exercises, to practice kind of what do do with your wrist to make the pattern you want. And love the colours you used❤😊

[marielouisedavidson]

Many thanks for this fun video. Love your colors and your teaching style.

[mjf]

Your exercises are fun and inspiring. Thank you, Lou!

[technonarg]

I need lots of practice on my brush strokes and water control so you exercises should help me gain some experience. Thanks for the lesson. :-)

[ChantelleArts]

this is the colour palette I use most, it's gorgeous 🥰

[sheilacym]

Loved this video, Lou….thank you so much 🎉🎉💕💕🤩🤩

[juliebabb]

so happy to have discovered you & channel. your content is wonderful & is presented in a comforting calm way. fabulous exercises that are interesting to do! great thanks!

[Flora-vu]

Great exercises thanks, I will have some fun with them. But you’ve made want some empire biscuits now (if you even know what they are!) 😉

[LynnLBE]

Where did you find the awesome pallette❓. It’s so nice with all that room. I enjoyed watching this & loved to see another way to make roses (the spiral).