Painting a Street Scene Contre Jour - Watercolor Demo by Tim Wilmot #20

Watercolour demonstration by Tim Wilmot - a street scene, contre jour (into the light or against the light) with people, buildings and cars. 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. 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 boat shapes. 4) Doing the sky and the first wash of the background and then the foreground. 5) Shadows and details of the figures and cars. 6) Watch out for the highlighting tips. More information on watercolour demos, lessons and recent paintings by Tim Wilmot can be found at