Today we are going to paint a picture in watercolours, using only two colours.

To do it, you`ll need:

• watercolour paper (I have A5 cotton paper);
• water;
• brush;
• 2 colors of paint (of cold and warm shade);
• palette.

Work in a limited palette is very useful to train tone layouts in painting, and is interesting in general for the painter and the audience.

A pencil sketch looks like this:

To do the sketch, you need to use a hard pencil and draw an almost invisible line. (I drew the line brighter for you to see it better).

Then, proceed to the choice of watercolors.

I have chosen violet and yellow ochra.

These are just two colours, but the mixture of them gives numerous shades!

What`s imortant is not to be afraid to experiment with intensity and transparency. Note that it is better to add more violet to shadow parts and yellow ochra - to light parts.

All the stages of painting are presented in the video below.