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Okay, so last week I did a tutorial on painting an ocean sunset with acrylic paints. I love that tutorial and it seems like many of you guys did too! (If you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to check it out HERE. It also is a tip-in, which is a great Bible journaling technique to learn about if you haven’t already.)
As much as I love acrylics, I know lots of you prefer watercolors. So I thought it would be fun to do a watercolor sunset tutorial as well!
I wanted to change this slightly from the acrylic ocean sunset, so I decided that instead of doing an ocean I would do simple mountains! These mountains are so easy that it makes this tutorial very beginner-friendly!
The Tutorial
Check out the full tutorial below, or keep reading for more notes and tips!
Colors I used from the Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor set: 33 Cadmium Orange, 31 Cadmium Scarlet, 35, Carmine, 139 Cobalt Violet, 20 Black
Notes and Tips
The idea behind painting the sky is very simple and similar to the acrylic version, just in a different color pattern. We just add paint with horizontal brush strokes, starting near the bottom of the page and working our way up. You can use different colors of course, but in this tutorial, we go from yellow, to orange, to pink, to purple. Overlapping the colors slightly as we work our way up the page.
Honestly, because we are using a pretty good amount of water, this type of painting is easier to do on watercolor paper than in the Bible. Since journaling Bible paper is thin, it tends to wrinkle and cause little pools of watercolor. I personally do not mind this at all and think it creates a really cool look, but I do recommend having a paper towel or q-tips handy to dab at the more prominent pools of color before they dry.
I also like the wrinkled/crinkly pages, which do flatten back out considerably after a couple of weeks with the Bible closed. But, if desired, you can iron the page on low heat to flatten it out once it is completely dry.
One more thing to note, I did paint over the scripture on this page, but I purposefully kept the colors light enough that I could still read it. (This is why the darkest mountain is off to the side- so that it wouldn’t cover the text.) If you do not want to paint over the text you have many options though! You could scale it and paint just the margin as I did in THIS landscape painting. You could also use an Interleaved Journaling Bible (my favorite journaling Bible), or make a tip-in like we did for the acrylic sunset tutorial last week. Or, of course, painting this in a separate journal/sketchbook or piece of paper is always an option!
Let me know in the comments below if you have any questions!
Supplies Used
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ESV Single Column Journaling Bible– Check out my post on Choosing A Journaling Bible to learn out more about other Journaling Bible options and find the right one for you.
Kurretake Gansai Tambi Watercolors – I have the 48 color set, but they also have smaller and cheaper sets like THIS 36-color set.
Large Round Paintbrush Link is to a value pack of brushes that I like (I use any cheap synthetic brushes), but not the exact brushes I used.
Other Tutorials You May Like
- Acrylic Sunset Ocean Tutorial
- Eight Must-Have Bible Journaling Supplies
- Brush Pen Calligraphy Basics
- Brush Pen Calligraphy- Bounce Lettering
- Faux Calligraphy Tutorial- Three Simple Steps To Beautiful Hand Lettering
- 10 Simple Hand-Lettering Styles (Plus a free cheat sheet)
- Choosing A Journaling Bible
