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Today I'm painting a beginner friendly seascape with yachts using a limited palette: cobalt blue, Venice red and Davidson's grey from our handmade paint range, you can subsitute any brand of cobalt blue, light red or Venetian red and paynes grey if you don't have our paints. I started out by masking out the yacht sails with masking fluid to protect the white paper. The idea is to try to let go and paint a wet in wet sky as loosely as possible, aiming for plenty of subtle drama, then a sea glinting with sunlight painted mostly with dry brush, loosely painted and kept really simple. It looks challenging, but it is a simple and exciting process that will probably take a bit of practice, but is really useful for getting beginners used to the way water and paint can flow on the page, and using a few dark accents to obtain balanced tonal values with plenty of darks, while keeping things fresh and light.
I'm using Saunders Waterford 100% cotton cold pressed 140lb/300g weight paper, 11" x 15"/28cms x 38cms, my paper is taped to my board with ordinary decorators masking tape and is at an angle of about 45 degrees so gravity will help me paint. I use various brushes as demonstrated in the video, but use whichever brushes you have.