Turn on your favourite music and a good mood. Imagine cloudberries in your mind, its rich colour and flavour. And start.

You need:

• A4 watercolour paper
• watercolours (I use my favourite Leningrad paints set)
• 3 and 2 kolinsky brushes
• formoplast
• pencil
• water

Sketch the composition:

Carefully apply the first layer of watercolour, pay attention to white regions left and how the intensity of a colour changes:

Now the leaf, see how many shades are there — each region is painted at once:

Go on:

Add a little dark paint:

Intensify the colours:

Paint additional shades:

Emphasise the volume:

Add veins:

Add colour:

The success secret is the number of details you'll be able to see and to transfer without drawing attention to them — this means, your efforts mustn't be seen:

Add shade below to show the depth of the space:

I hope, you've found some useful tips and got an overall idea of how to paint with watercolours. I wish you success!