This comprehensive tutorial teaches you how to paint a house in watercolor using a photo and graph paper. It covers the process of creating a beautiful watercolor illustration and demonstrates how to use watercolor and fineliner pens to paint portraits of real houses and buildings. The tutorial begins with preparing a rough sketch, then paints the base layer of the roof, walls, ground, and adds more details. Watercolour painting is perfect for beginner artists, and many art websites and books offer comprehensive techniques and lessons. The tutorial also shows how to create and personalize a watercolor portrait of any image using an iPhone. This tutorial is perfect for giving as gifts, such as custom hand-painted home portraits, original watercolor illustrations, house painting from photographs, realtor closing gifts, and housewarming gifts. The tutorial is an easy-to-follow step-by-step guide to help you unlock your watercolor painting potential.
📹 Watercolor Home Portraits | Illustrating + Painting Houses
My top three tips for painting a house in watercolor: 1. Take a photo of the house and sketch from that photo. 2. Use graph paper …
📹 How To Paint a House w/ Watercolor | Sweet & Simple!
Learn to paint a simple watercolor house in under 20 minutes. This painting tutorial is perfect for the absolute beginner.
What a fun yet basic process. I have been doing watercolor home portraits for a couple of years now and I have learned some new techniques from your article. I want to simplify my time and process on many of my paintings and you have shown me how to do that. I love the look and thank you…I will be following you! Have a great day!
SO pretty…. I love how it looks real but still maintains the essence of being a painting, & your color choices are so serene. Thank you SO much for the techniques & tips with perspective using graph paper, tracing, & color variations within the greenery, windows, roof & all. It’s a pleasure to watch your process & I love your painting style – so elegant & delicate, controlled, neat, & contained. (my stuff tends to get a bit “scruffy” around the edges & I’m not quite as patient as to work on a painting for 4 hours! Wow!) Oh… and yes… 1000% agree on negative space around the image … people tend to want to cramp content within the whole page, but negative space gives the breathing room the mind and eye need to sufficiently “digest” the image… (learned that in a 3-D Art Class I took in college – something that surprised me as a benefit since we’re taught to believe it’s “wasted space or paper” if not filled….but it’s just as much a part of the picture as the colored area & serves its purpose functioning as it does.) Such nice work! Enjoyed your flowers & leaves articles too. Thanks so much for sharing! 🙂
I wish my mom was still alive and my family home wasnt owned by some random person my dad met and married 4 years before he died…. My mom and dad worked really hard on that house, and now its just being sold like that. I always anticipated on owning the house. Maybe I should make this for my bullet journal diary spread. It really hurts, my mom and dads house, the house where I grew up, sold just like that, by this new wife….
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I just watched your autumn leaf article as it popped up in my recommendations, and i enjoyed it a lot. so I decided to check out your website, and your trailer came up. I watched the first ~5 seconds, and as i am quite an emotional boy, i started to tear up when you said “Im an artist and you can be one too” (or something similar, I got too teary to remember it word for word). anyway, here I am one subscribe click later, perusal your articles!! Keep it up, youre really nice
I think you would really benefit from practicing holding your brush a little more relaxed, create a little distance from the end and rearrange the brush to fit between your index + middle finger instead of the middle + ring fingers. You are holding the brush in a writing position, and not like an artist (although you are still an amazing artist anyway! 🙂 ..but I imagine you struggle with sore hands/wrists and constrained linework. There are some amazing articles out there on this subject and it can be very interesting. Just give it a thought, I’m not putting your work down at all! 🤗
Hi shayda,i’ve been subscribe to your website for months now and I really really really love your Paintings it inspires me in the way to discipline myself and especially to have patience during the process. I just wanted to take this opportunity to appreciate you so much.KEEP GOING! thankyou and Godbless you. -Faith from Philippines.
Hi Shayda, I love the super groovy music in the background it adds a lot to the article feel. Great pacing on the article explanation of why you would do house painting. My close friend Sherrod Blankner does huge paintings like this. If you guys are interested in more landscape painting, check my website at ShawNshawN. Great work Shayda. Keep up the great work.
Hi Shayda – 😊I’m so thankful and blessed that you did this painting. I have been wanting to paint the house my Mom was born in for a long time. It was torn down many years ago. We have one photo of it. I just didn’t know how to go about it except to try and get the perspective right and didn’t understand that very well. Ive watched so many articles on painting a house in acrylics and none of them give the details needed to actually paint it. I’ve sketched it several times but never satisfied with it. I have graph paper and am going to use it. YOU explain things so well. I hope to have this done for her for Christmas. What a very special gift you have given me in showing me how to do this. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I hope that I can do this painting justice since it will mean so much to her. Got a question. If I want to make the painting a little larger than the 4X6 photo, would you think blowing this photo up a little would work to help me get the perspective right on everything? I don’t want to paint it real big, just a little bigger than the photo. Thank you so much. Hugs! 😇🙏🏻 🏡☀️ Happy Day ☀️🏡
Thank you. My father built a home for us in 94. We sold it in 2013. My parents have just finished building their much smaller retirement home(at 65). I have so many emotions thinking of my childhood home, so much deep appreciation for my father to have given us that incredible home to grow and love in. They are finally settled in their new home, and I thought it would be a great idea to make something myself as an ode to the “summer st house”. I can’t wait to get started on this! Thank you so much!
Everything on a flat piece of paper is 2Dimensions, no matter what angle the house is. What you are referring to is a photo in front (right in front of the living area – entryway, instead of garage) is 1-point perspective. House portraits are often more interesting, however, when you slide over to a corner to make it a 2-point perspective drawing. It make sense to have reflections in your windows and really makes your house look more alive. throw out the black (making it look dead inside) and add some white streaks or slight color reflection/variations .. could be trees, sky or anything across the street at any time of day. FYI, items in front are darker/more detailed and fade to lighter as they go away from you. you do some awesome trees!
An other artist who paints a lot of houses is Minnie Small: this is the list of houses I came up with in a search of her youtube website: youtube.com/channel/UCLcxo0ysMP27XTiRKqrdASg/search?query=house I can’t find Lindsay, the person you talk about. Can you please reference her in your links beneath the article? Thanks for your explaining your process. I liked it. Very instructive.
Thank you so much for this tutorial!! I really didn’t know how to use watercolors properly and it always became a mess whenever i tried to paint something, but after perusal some of ur tutorial articles it started to come out well!! It’s like i became better at art out of nowhere jsjsh thank you soo much!!