Part two of Covent Garden Shadows. This time add cast and reflected shadowing to your architecture!

Part one of an architectural watercolour of St Paul's church in Covent Garden. Start with a guide to drawing perspective and a complex structure and continue with the first colour washes and a few ways to paint distant details.

Watercolour a still life of copper vessels and find out how to use wet in wet to create reflections and metal surfaces. Add dark details to bring out the shine!

Paint a Venetian Canal Scene wet in wet watercolour. You will find out about working on wet paper and allowing the paint to blend. You will need Pre-soaked watercolour paper ( I used Two Rivers 140lb) chose a good quality paper with a high cotton/linen content. Saunders Waterford, Arches, Fabriano Artistico, with a Rough or Not surface and thick at least 140lb weight Colours I used are : Ultramarine Blue, Viridian, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Light Red, Cadmium Red, Neutral Tint, Ultramarine Violet, Emerald Green Pencil (2B), Drawing Board, Drawing Pins, Water

A pen and watercolour study to find out all about perspective and shadows