Painting a Fall Landscape in Watercolor with Susan Avis Murphy, AWS

Susan Avis Murphy, AWS, paints an autumn farm scene in watercolor for her class at ARThouse in Sandy Spring, Maryland. The painting is done in a loose, painterly style, with interesting textural effects. Susan shows how to paint wet-in-wet, how to create textures with spatter and backruns, how to use a sumi-e brush to paint grasses, how to suggest branches and leaves on a fall tree, how to paint a distant barn. She discusses atmospheric perspective, the use of sumi-e ink along with watercolor, using appr