The Sunday Art Show - Quick and loose cows and landscape en plein air painting using watercolour and sharpie

"Resting Rusties" - you can see the finished painting in hi-res here https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/two-red-poll-cows-lying-down-watercolour-painting-mike-jory.html This week, I show you a really quick and fun technique that combines en plein air sharpie pen sketching with en plein air watercolour painting to create a cows in  landscape impressionist painting with trees and hedges in the background. These rust red cattle, Red Poll breed were found in a field near Starcross in Devon.
Materials used: Daler-Rowney mixed media paper A4, black sharpie pen, Winsor & Newton watercolour set, round and flat synthetic brushes, Winsor and Newton field easel

The Sunday Art Show - En Plein Air Horse and Landscape Painting

In this week's video, I show you how to paint a horse and landscape painting while working en plein air. This is 'Grazing the day away' - you can see the full painting here https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/horse-grazing-in-devon-landscape-en-plein-air-painting-mike-jory.html I begin with a simple, gestural sketch using a sharpie pen and A4 mixed media paper. Then, I add colour to the scene of a horse grazing against a Devon landscape of rolling hills, fields, hedges and trees using interactive acrylics. Next, I go through a few different horse sketches and finally complete the painting with watercolour marker pens.
Materials: A4 Daler-Rowney mixed media pad, Sharpie marker pen (black), Atelier interactive acrylics (permanent alizarin, phthalo blue, carbon black, titanium white, cadmium yellow deep, cadmium yellow light), flat and round synthetic brushes, Winsor and Newton watercolour marker pens (burnt umber and cobalt blue)