I begin painting with very loose, bold washes usually wet-into-wet. I start with the sky using a combination of Ultramarine blue, Yellow Ochre, and Cadmium Red Light for the cloud shadows. I use [...]

One of the most important parts of the painting is controlling the warms in the core shadow and the cools in the cast shadows. Here I start to establish that relationship and get a feel for where [...]

Keeping my value study nearby to keep me on track, I begin to refine the tower and add the shrubs in the background. This establishes my darkest darks and lightest lights at my center of interest.

After the painting is complete, I put it on an easel in my studio and study it for a week or so, looking for problem areas. I want it to be completely resolved before I send it off to my [...]

Getting increasingly darker with my pigments I continue with the rest of the middle ground and the foreground water and lily pads. The painting is almost complete, but I still have to add more [...]

Watercolor painting of Scotney Tower in England by Roland Lee. We spent a week in the lovely Weald of Kent in Southeastern England this summer. We visited many castles, and the Scotney Castle was [...]