Painting Challenge: Backyard

October 27, 2023 / Diann Zimmerman

Let’s go outside, and use your backyard, garden, or patio as inspiration for a painting! Or paint your dream yard!

Painting challenge: Backyard

Include the hashtag #backyard in your Watercolor – Beginners and Beyond Facebook group post.

Deadline November 3, 11:59 pm ET

Here are the details:

Paint your backyard, garden, or patio. Or paint the backyard/garden/patio you would love to have! Design it!
Entries must be posted in the Facebook group: Watercolor – Beginners and Beyond
Include topic hashtag in your Facebook post: #backyard
You may enter as often as you want
Open to all countries
Winner is chosen randomly
Deadline November 3, 2023, 11:59 pm ET (New York time)
Winner announced November 5, 2023
Mediums accepted: watercolor, watercolor pencils, gouache, water soluble graphite, water soluble inks, and mixed media as long as it includes watercolor
If you also post your painting on Instagram, tag @watercolorbeginnersandbeyond. You could be randomly chosen for a QoR watercolor sample dot card.

My backyard consisted of weeds and a couple of struggling trees before Darrel came into my life. Now it’s a peaceful paradise. He has worked so hard to transform the yard. I am so grateful. He even composed and sang a song about our backyard. Listen to it here: The Backyard Song by Darrel Norman.

What is the prize?

Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Graham Berry, the prize for one random winner is a one-year subscription to Graham’s courses: Paint with Graham. There are over 100 full tutorials available immediately with a new tutorial added every 2 weeks. His painting style is perfect for both beginner and experienced artists. He will help you take your watercolor skills to the next level to continue to grow as an artist.

If you’d like to try a tutorial for free, sign up here. I learned so much from his free tutorial about using a limited palette, creating warm light, and to allow the paint to “do its thing” and not fiddle with it too much.

And I am very excited to share he has scheduled a workshop in Italy, September 8 – 14, 2024. For info: https://www.italianatours.com/graham-berry-workshop

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