Pleinly® Art Academy – Learn to Paint with Free Nature References

Pleinly® Art Academy - Free Tutorials and Nature Reference Photos!

Learn watercolor painting with free nature reference photos and in-depth video tutorials — begin your journey to becoming a plein air artist!
Download reference photos using a zipped file about 1Mb/4K / image size. You can use these images freely as painting references. If you publish your paintings include link to pleinly.com 🙂
Author has designed own Pleinly® products for plein air watercolor artists and has over 30 years watercolor painting experience.
New reference photos and videos at least monthly.

Painting a Squirrel – Tutorial (Watercolor : Wet-on-Wet & Wet-on-Dry, Layering):

Almost Full tutorial from planning and preparing paper to (Real-time) painting.

Pleinly Watercolor Easel Set
Pleinly Loose Watercolor Paper CP type-L (10.6×14.2″)
Pleinly Water Painting Boards
1h 15 minutes (Painted from the photo in home studio.)
23 free images to be used as painting reference purpose only.

Demonstrating the planning of this painting with water painting boards. I show how I started this painting, but the end is cut because the battery went empty. I hope it still has some interesting value to you. I really like planning with water painting boards.

Painting a Cat – Tutorial (Watercolor : Wet-on-Wet, Alla Prima):

Full tutorial from planning and preparing paper to (Real-time) painting.

Pleinly Watercolor Easel Set
Pleinly Loose Watercolor Paper HP type-L (10.6×14.2″)
Pleinly Water Painting Boards
52 minutes (Painted from the photo in home studio.)

Demonstrating the most exciting but also challenging Wet-on-Wet Alla Prima technique in Watercolor. This technique forms the basis for Watercolor plein air painting which normally needs to be made quite fast and in one go.