This step by step tutorial will have you using tonal values in painting a watercolour swan with in less than an hour. It is a quick fun project that is also tremendously helpful in building the skills you need in your painting arsenal.

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Colour is one of the things we painters get most excited about - of course!

Colour might attract as to paintings and definitely calls to the painter, but it is not what makes the painting make sense - value does that.

Let me show you how. I’ll also tell you how to alter values in watercolour and tell you something about the colour wheel that just might surprise you.

Colourful interesting scenes beg you to paint them but are often intimidatingly complex - unless you know how to simplify a photo for painting!

I have 3 tips to share (+ a video demonstration) that will have you confidently painting stunning scenes like this flower garden.