Watercolor Tutorial - Negative Painting in Watercolour - A ’How to’ by Tim Wilmot #37

Watercolour demonstration by Tim Wilmot featuring negative painting. Negative painting is the practice of painting the space around an object, rather than the object itself, and used so much in watercolour. Please support my work via . Make a small donation and I will give you a personal critique in return! More paintings for sale at In this demo I will be covering... 1) Choice of Subject. What makes a good watercolour subject. How to simplify the scene. What is negative painting all about and why is it so important for watercolour. 2) Materials I use such as the paper. 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 building and boat shapes. 4) Doing the sky and the first wash of the background and then the foreground. Introducing negative pai