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Painting-Watercolor-Landscape-Cottage With Pond -Part 3 - 2026

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The steps necessary to finish this watercolor landscape painting demonstration are addressed in Part 3. Time is spent refining the water with the use of masking, etching, addition of addition color, and completing the details of the reflection. Foreground decisions are made. Steve provides more watercolor techniques for applying paint. Other topics include surface preparation, color variation, emphasizing horizontal elements, design consideration, and finding personality to the elements in the watercolor painting.

Index
00:01:01 - Preparing the surface with water
00:01:11 - Additional masking added to block a secondary color
00:01:56 - Getting the reflection straight with a T-square
00:03:14 - Flooding the paper with water
00:04:56 - Creating beauty and interest with horizontal elements
00:09:44 - Importance of taking a break from the painting to think and refresh
00:12:40 - adding a color variance in the water to shake up the color
00:14:20 - Getting all of the painting elements to work as a whole
00:15:39 - Conducting the viewer into the painting
00:17:32 - Think about the foliage, it needs scale and personality
00:21:46 - Dropping paint onto the surface and letting it do it's thing
00:25:41 - Adding personality to foliage with horizontals
00:28:58 - Making decisions regarding the foreground design
00:43:15 - Removing the mask in the water, finishing touches
00:46:35 - Using an Xacto knife and straight edge to etch reflections in the water
00:54:32 - Viewing the painting framed