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The Sunday Art Show - Quick and loose cows and landscape en plein air painting using watercolour and sharpie

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The Sunday Art Show - Quick and loose cows and landscape en plein air painting using watercolour and sharpie



"Resting Rusties" - you can see the finished painting in hi-res here https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/two-red-poll-cows-lying-down-watercolour-painting-mike-jory.html This week, I show you a really quick and fun technique that combines en plein air sharpie pen sketching with en plein air watercolour painting to create a cows in  landscape impressionist painting with trees and hedges in the background. These rust red cattle, Red Poll breed were found in a field near Starcross in Devon.
Materials used: Daler-Rowney mixed media paper A4, black sharpie pen, Winsor & Newton watercolour set, round and flat synthetic brushes, Winsor and Newton field easel