Basics of Painting a Sunset with Watercolors

Series Summary

Have you ever been driving down the highway at dusk, looking across the horizon, and just been overwhelmed by the colors in the sky? Have you ever wondered how something like that could happen? Do you ever see the sunset and become inspired to try to recreate it at home? If so, then painting with watercolors is a great way to express the soft yet vibrant beauty of a sunset. Watercolor is a medium of painting first used extensively by German painter Albrecht Durer in the 15th century and continued by such painters as Hans Bol, Paul Cezanne, and Wassily Kandinsky. Artists find the soft and wistful nature of watercolor a perfect medium for nature painting and have used it as such for over 500 years.

In this free video series, watch as professional artist and painter Sue Gill Rose teaches how to paint a sunset with watercolors using only three colors. Learn how to prepare the canvas, how to create and save a design, how to tape off canvas, what colors and brushes are needed to paint a sunset with watercolors, how to apply yellow, red, and blue, how to soften edges, how to add details, and how to apply streaks to a watercolor painting. Sunsets are inspiring and worthy of art. Let the experts at Expert Village help you capture the beauty of a sunset with watercolors by enjoying this video series.

Video Transcript

"Good morning. I'm Sue Rose and on behalf of Expert Village, I want to show you the easy way to do a sunset in watercolor using 3 basic colors. One of the things that is most important about using watercolor is that you always tear your paper. You never cut your paper. This is the finished product that you will have when you complete this assignment. Please watch the next segment and I will walk you through it step my step. The first segment we do is tearing our watercolor paper."