I Paint an Old Schoolhouse in Watercolor

James Gurney paints a one-room schoolhouse in watercolor.
1. Permanent Carmine (tube watercolor):
2. Payne’s Grey:
3. Ultramarine blue:
4. Cerulean blue:
5. Permanent green olive:
6. Cadmium red medium:
7. Venetian red:
8. Sepia:
9. Raw Sienna:
10. Gamboge:
11. White gouache:

OTHER MATERIALS
Empty watercolor tin:
Empty watercolor pans:
Pentalic Aqua Journal sketchbook:
Liner brush (synthetic):
Winsor & Newton Series 995 synthetic flat brush:
Richeson Travel brush set:
Water cup:
Water-soluble colored pencils:

DESCRIPTION
James Gurney visits the Machado School in Morgan Hill, California, painting the back of the building. He shares some instructional tips for rendering architecture in transparent watercolor and recalls how he learned handwriting and drawing as an elementary school kid growing up in California.

VIDEO TUTORIALS:
“Watercolor in the Wild” (Download)
"Gouache in the Wild" (Download on Gumroad):

BLOG POST ABOUT WATERCOLOR MATERIALS:


BOOKS:
Color and Light: A Guide for Realist Painters:
Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist:
Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time:

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