Paint this Mountain: Watercolor painting in 3 EASY steps

Here we briefly go over the simple materials we'll be using. And then we start with some masking tape to create the beginnings of our Mountain Landscape. We then paint in our sky and the lake below.

It sounds like a lot, but I show you very simple painting techniques to add all this life into your painting with just a few brush strokes.

In this final step, we color in our cabin and add a few birds in the sky. And we're done!

Here we wrap up our painting session. In as little as 30 minutes, you can be here, holding up your finished Mountain Landscape painting watercolor painting. It really is easy and fun.

Here I paint an entire new Mountain Landscape, but this time with a soft pink sunset sky. I also make a new mountain range shape, move the lake to the other side of the painting, and make a new cabin design. This should show you the infinite possibilities of these painting techniques.

Also download this finished painting for your reference.

While this watercolor painting was intended to be fun and leisurely, I do want to impress the idea that there are some real painting concepts to be learned here (for those interested in any kind of serious study). These ideas will open you up to a whole new world of looking at art, and creating it yourself. I invite you to read to this brief touch on the four main painting concepts of Drawing, Values, Color, and Edges. I also provide some examples of my artwork to illustrate these concepts, which if nothing else are just fun to look at :)