Throughout 2026 my watercolour articles are being published monthly by The Artist Magazine. Each covers a different aspect of painting specifically in watercolour – when put together they form a handy guide for painters. In April’s edition (titled June on the cover) I used the atmospheric theme of clouds to help painters get to grips with mixing colour – in this case to form a series of natural greys.
I also filmed a Subscriber video along similar lines looking at hard and soft edges formed in a sunlit sky. Hard edges are also known as ‘found’ as there is a sharp change in tone along their boundary. Soft or ‘lost’ edges on the other hand are subtle and diffuse, often disguised by blurred or gradual changes in tone caused by the use of lots of water, some lifting of the paint or subtly obscured by veils or glazes of colour layered on top. The clouds below are heavily backlit by bright sunlight and so appear to have hard edged ‘silver linings’.
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