Watercolor Challenge: Golden Hour

July 4, 2025 / Diann Zimmerman

The Golden Hour is that magical slice of time just after sunrise or before sunset when the world is bathed in soft, warm, golden hues. The light becomes richer, shadows stretch long, and everything takes on a dreamy glow. It’s nature’s most flattering filter.

Whether you’re capturing landscapes or cityscapes, golden hour light can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary. The challenge is to harness that feeling, paint that glow, and bring that fleeting beauty to life on your paper.

Watercolor challenge:  Golden Hour

Here are the details:

  • Share a painting of the Golden Hour
  • Sponsored by Matt White, https://www.learntopaintwatercolor.com/
  • Prize for one random winner:  “Watercolor Essentials Course”
  • Entries must be posted in the Facebook group: Watercolor – Beginners and Beyond
  • Include topic hashtag in your Facebook post:  #goldenhour
  • You may enter as often as you want
  • Open to all countries
  • Winner is chosen randomly
  • Deadline July 11, 2025, 11:59 pm ET (New York time)
  • Winner announced July 13, 2025
  • Mediums accepted:  watercolor, watercolor pencils, gouache, water soluble graphite, water soluble inks, and mixed media as long as it includes watercolor

What is the prize?   

Our sponsor this week is Matthew White.   One random winner will receive access to his Watercolor Essentials course.  The course includes 5 modules:
  1. Values Simplified: Demystifying the Most Powerful Tool In Painting
  2. Timing and Paint Consistency: Formulas for Hard Edges, Soft Edges, and Everything in Between
  3. Creating Life-like Colors: Mixing to Reflect the Natural World
  4. Mastering Depth: Creating the Illusion of Distance on a Thin Piece of Paper
  5. Learning What to Leave Out: Finding Strength and Clarity through Simplification

29 core Watercolor Essentials videos with hours of in-depth step-by-step training, also includes, Painting Figures, Simple Sky Practice, Painting Negative Shapes, “Still Lake” – A step by step demonstration 

Sign up to receive FREE 5 Steps to Successful Painting: https://www.learntopaintwatercolor.com/5steps

 

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