Richard Taylor Tutorials

These watercolour painting tutorials will give you a good insight into my working methods and techniques. If you wish to recreate the effects seen here in full, I suggest that you use the same watercolour paper. All of these pictures have been painted onto Bockingford 250lb paper - this is a very strong and forgiving paper which does not need stretching.

I do hope that you enjoy these tutorials. If you would like more personal tuition then please go to the Courses pages where you will find information on the weekend courses that I am running this year at the Watershed Studio in N. E. Essex.

	Indoor Tutorial 1 - Summer Still Life This painting explores the way in which an understanding of colours and their effects can help to create some dynamic compositions. Click here to view the tutorial.
	Indoor Tutorial 2 - Red Hot Peppers In this panting you will need to think of the idea of colour ‘families’ – eg. reds, yellows and oranges, blues, purples and violets, and greens, yellows and blues. This will be the starting point. Click here to view the tutorial.
	Outdoor Tutorial 1 - Spring Tulips This painting explores the concept of Complementary or ‘opposite’ colours and they ways that they interact when placed together on a sheet of watercolour paper. Click here to view the tutorial.
	Outdoor Tutorial 2 - Chinese Lanterns The visual dynamics of positive and negative shapes and the way in which shapes and objects can be ‘pushed’ forward in a composition are explored in this painting. Click here to view the tutorial.