How to use a Dashcam image for a painting - Watercolor Demonstration by Tim Wilmot #28

Do you have a Dashcam or Dashboard Camera in your car? There might be some interesting subjects to paint lurking in there! So here is an watercolor painting based on an image from my Dascam. The scene is St Emilion, a picturesque town in south west France. So some old buildings and this is a big wine growing area so I have included some vineyards. More paintings at In this demo I will be covering... 1) Choice of Subject. What makes a good watercolour subject. How to simplify the scene. I will actually go through a dashcam video and show some examples of scenes to paint and why. 2) Materials I use such as the paper. I use Saunders Waterford 300gms NOT surface for this painting. I will also cover the paints I use and the palette, plus how I hold the different brushes for different techniques. 3) Doing the outline sketch as the first step. How to draw figures and cars. 4) Doing the sky and the first wash of the background and
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