Step outside

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

■ Practise painting (and discover the benefits of) using just three colours

■ Choose an outdoor composition and paint it without being too ambitious

■ Test equipment set-up for comfortable and enjoyable outdoor painting

In part one last month we looked at a few subject options and sketched in pencil as a good introduction to the whole business of working outdoors. This series of articles is intended as a progression so it might be helpful to refer back to what we already covered. This time, we’ll set out with a determination to paint in watercolour, but again with managed expectations of the outcome. I consider all my watercolours to be sketches in the way many people use the term, and yet also the fi nal product, since they are never worked up later in the studio.