I am using my Chinese brush and I mix the three colours together to make grey. Crimson, cadmium yellow and Prussian blue.

I am starting a new watercolour demonstration in a series of shorts. I am using a very special large bushy hogs hair brush from Barcelona it is wonderful for expressive washes plus it holds lots of paint so you can paint larger, I mixed a cadmium yellow and dropped some water into the paint to loosen the pigment, then I wet the extra rough textured watercolour paper 425 gsm 200 lb bockingford. Big sporadic sweeps with the brush all over the paper.

I have just adopted my new doggy who is 2 yrs old a Patterdale terrier and loves to have a walk at Grovely woods in West Wiltshire. I filmed this scene as I was very much inspired to use this view overlooking the woodland beyond and the yellow field I think it was either mustard or rapeseed. I will demonstrate how I create this scene bit by bit in a series of short watercolour demonstrations coming soon.

I have enjoyed creating this step by step guide to watercolour techniques. I hope it helps you in your art journey with some of the tips and tricks you can achieve using watercolour inks with watercolour paint.
I look forward to showing you soon my new series of watercolour techniques of my inspiration in nature.

I am using turquoise watercolour ink and applying with my Chinese brush in areas where I want to enhance and illuminate by going over some of the white.

I am using my bushy Chinese brush spiked out and press the colour into the brush not dripping and apply over wet on wet washes across the vertical markings that I have done previously. This is a lovely way of creating reflections expressively.

I am using my Chinese brush and applying the colour by dragging the paint in a repetition. Feel the brushstrokes and enjoy being expressive.

It was a sunny blue sky day at Fovant lake and I filmed this scene after a steep hill walk to the Fovant badges in Wiltshire. It has given me a wonderful composition for a painting.

I am using my bushy Chinese brush make sure you separate the bristles slightly and on damp paper I drag with a similar colours that I used for the pine trees. Drag downwards or upwards over the blue pool and beneath the golden grasses.

Using my nail I etched or scratch out the wet paint where the golden mounds are for the grasses by the blue pool. Make sure you do this while the paint is wet. Etch using your finger nail in an upwards stroke be precise.

I feel an inspirational moment for a new watercolour painting as I take in the ancient woodland of Grovely woods in West Wiltshire a quiet area of natural habitat and Wiltshires largest woodland.

I am using my medium size Chinese hake brush and I apply the deep turquoise I have made with watercolour ink and watercolour paint and I apply using the brush flat dragging across the dry watercolour paper. Just notice when you run out of paint and reapply and go over the dry washes beneath the golden mounds.

I am using my Japanese mop squirrel hair brush and using the tip I run my brush under the golden mounds using a monochrome colour that I have made with all of the colours on my plate and while the paper is wet. This will achieve some depth.

You spike out the bushy Chinese brush and apply wet paint and ink. Then lightly drag the brush over the wet watercolour washes to connect the patterns of the forest. Just observe the way the washes are drying and you can move the paint .

I am using my bushy Chinese brush and have separated the bristles out to make it spiky and I brush lightly using a sweeping technique upwards while the paper is wet.

I often visit these beautiful gardens tucked away in the woodland estate of Kingston lacy, owned by the National trust in Dorset. I created an original impressionist watercolour of my inspiration in March this year.

This type of expressiveness is all about the patterns of nature I use my Chinese brush and gently mark the wet watercolour washes on the paper. It’s a repetition of the brush and a wonderful meditative way of painting.

I am using the point of my Chinese brush and make sure I have enough of the cadmium yellow mixed with yellow ochre and a touch of watercolour crimson. I press and release the paint over the wet washes where the blue pool is going to be in my painting.

I am dragging the dark earthy purple that I have made using my Chinese hake. Make sure the paper is wet it will bring the depth in.

Using the Chinese hake use the flat end of the brush and keep the brush condensed apply your colour for the pines and press in short markings over the wet watercolour paper and observe all the time the patterns.

I am using the colours on my plate added some crimson ink and turquoise ink into the paint. Using my Chinese hake flat and on the side to drag and press the paint on wet on wet washes for the markings.

The paper is wet and I am using my Japanese mop squirrel hair brush I applying a dark pine green that I have made I press and create the markings for the pine trees around the blue pool.

I am explaining my experience so far with this wet on wet expressive watercolour created with watercolour ink and watercolour paint using a Chinese hake.

I mixed some watercolour ink turquoise into the cobalt blue and phthalo turquoise green mixing with the Chinese hake and applying in controlled short sweeps across the moist paper for the blue pool effect lower down.

I am slightly dyslexic and meant to call the watercolour ink ECOLINE they have a great range of colours and you can be very expressive. I like to pour some ink onto my china plate and then I mix paint from a tube into it. I am using a red ink which I mix into the blues that I have used, Making sure the paper is moist I sweep in areas over my sky using my Chinese hake flat keep your hand taught your wrist relaxed be expressive and do shorter sweeps for the clouds.