Watercolor Tutorial - How to simplify the scene in a Venice painting - Demo by Tim Wilmot #34

So you have a complex landscape or street scene you want to paint? How can we simplify what we see (or maybe you are trying to paint from a photo) down to the main shapes and values. In this video I take a scene from Burano (a pretty island near to Venice, Italy) and strip it down to bare essentials for a loose style watercolour painting. See more of my paintings at In this demo I will be covering... 1) Choice of Subject. What makes a good watercolor subject. How to simplif