How to Paint a Lake in Watercolor

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Today I'm showing you how to paint a lake in watercolor.
I am painting on Saunders Waterford Cold Press 140lb paper. I have my surface tilted to 35 degrees. I use a variety of brands of brushes. I mainly stick to a large mop, medium round and smaller synthetic brush with a point.
Here are the list of pigments on my palette:
Burnt Sienna
Cadmium Red
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Cerulean Blue
Cobalt Blue
Cobalt Teal Blue
Cobalt Turquoise
Lavender
Neutral Tint
Payne's Gray
Quinacridone Gold
Raw Sienna
Raw Sienna Light
Raw Umber
Rose Madder Permanent
Ultramarine Blue
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[@connied8507]

You know you've done well when the painting has more interest than the reference 😊. Well done 👍 ❤️‍🩹

[@kellyhalligan1328]

lol the minute you started with rose matter I thought, wow, he didnt wet the front and back. Great painting. Thanks for

[@dessyedeeclark1144]

I know you said you wanted to get rid of the up and down mark making when you first put in the distant vegetation, but it did remind me of how plants might grow in a sand dune, with little triangles of sand trickling down between clumps of vegation.

[@pamelakernberg1410]

Thank you for such an informative video. I really enjoyed seeing you work with your palette and especially enjoyed you listing the colors you used for each part of the painting - that is really helpful as I am learning about color mixing.

[@horaciomartinez1694]

Great job! Thank you! Love your style and the way you teach! Congrats

[@maryrichinick7287]

Very helpful to see your process. Thank you!

[@ILoveFountainPensCdn]

OMG! I soooo need an order of operations for my watercolour paintings!!! Thank you! Beautiful art!

[@hammill444]

Absolutely amazing

[@sherylwhittaker6611]

I love this. Your style is wonderful! Thank you for sharing your talent with us. You are amazing 👏

[@user-wk1hw7mm6f]

Thank you for this tutorial 🩷🌊😊very satisfying!

[@marie_es]

So cool to watch this process!

[@lisamiller4538]

Ack!!! Raw sienna!!!

[@hArtyTruffle]

Thanks Matthew 🙂 I’ve totally stolen your method of wetting both sides of the paper ✨👌🏼✨

[@msgail7232]

Are you using a John Pike palette?

[@rhondagarrett3976]

Do you always wet the back of your paper? It seems like your paper stays wet a long time.

[@berkaysen2246]

Matthew White, I think at the end you darkened the foreground water too much. At the beginning it was more beautiful. A couple of sharp and dark dry brush marks for the foreground water might have been better. Also the reflection of trees wasn’t completely dry, and when you swipe the brush, that green color mixed into water. I love your paintings but sometimes you’re darkening foreground too much 😅 I am not a master, I am learning from you and many other artists. But I think sometimes we need to skip the rules, and just do what the painting needs and what we want. 👍🏻