Watercolor Tutorial | Mountain and River Watercolor Painting | Easy step by step learn watercolor

Creating a watercolor painting of a rainy day can be a beautiful way to capture the atmosphere of wet streets, reflections, and falling rain. Here's a step-by-step guide to help you:
Materials:
1. Watercolor paints (blues, grays, purples, and a few warm tones for contrast)
2. Watercolor paper (preferably cold-pressed)
3. Watercolor brushes (a large wash brush, a round brush for details)
4. Water
5. Paper towel
6. Masking fluid (optional)
7. Salt (optional, for texture effects)
Steps:
1. Sketch the Basic Scene:
Lightly sketch your scene using a pencil. You can include elements like:
Buildings, trees, or street lamps in the background.
A few figures walking with umbrellas or cars.
A distant horizon for depth.
2. Wet the Paper:
Use a large wash brush to apply clean water over the sky and street areas of your painting. This will help the colors blend smoothly and give a soft, rainy feel.
3. Create the Sky:
Start by applying a light wash of diluted blues, grays, or purples across the sky.
Allow colors to blend naturally on the paper.
Add darker tones near the top and lighter tones near the horizon to give a sense of distance.
Let the paint flow, but don't make it too vibrant-rainy skies are often muted.
4. Paint the Ground:
For the ground (especially wet streets or sidewalks), use a mix of grays and blues.
Reflect the sky and other objects on the wet ground by lightly blending their colors downward with vertical strokes.
You can drag the brush lightly over damp paper to create a sense of texture and puddles.
5. Add Rain Effect:
While the painting is still damp, you can sprinkle a little salt on the sky and ground areas. The salt will absorb the paint, creating a scattered, rainy texture.
Alternatively, wait for the painting to dry and then flick small splatters of white gouache or watered-down white watercolor using a toothbrush or a small brush to mimic falling rain.
6. Details with Dry Brush:
For figures or objects in the background, use darker, muted tones (such as dark blue, gray, or brown) and keep the details minimal, as everything should appear slightly blurred in the rain.
Add details to buildings, umbrellas, or trees using a dry brush technique to keep edges soft and blend into the rainy atmosphere.
Shadows and reflections on the ground can be blurred or stretched downwards with soft brushstrokes.
7. Final Touches:
To intensify the rain effect, you can gently lift off some paint from certain areas using a damp brush or paper towel to create lighter streaks.
Once everything is dry, you can add small lines of rain using a fine brush with diluted gray or white for a more dramatic effect.
Darken areas where the rain would cast shadows, like under objects or figures, to ground them in the scene.
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