How To Paint Roof Tiles In Watercolour

Allow to dry completely.

How to paint roof tiles in watercolour.

Spray the paint onto your roof. Still using the no. Paint the shaded side of the building with a purple grey wash. Using the same brush and paint mixture paint the tile with little half moon shapes.

Apply two coats of roofbond roof paint with 517 airless tip either clear glaze or coloured. 3 brush suggest the roof tiles with a mix of transparent red oxide and burnt umber. If you want to restore your roof to give it the original shine roofbond roof paint clear glaze is the ideal option. Be sure to extend your tile courses under the white spaces left for the leaves.

No need to paint in every tile but try to stagger them a little. Continue working wet into wet. Ultramarine blue quinacridone violet or rose violet a touch of. The surface will be dry in 4 5 hours and hard dry in 4 5 days.

Paint the darkest shadows on the tile roof. Let go of the trigger at the end of your stroke. If any marks are too hard and obvious touch them lightly with a finger to soften the effect. Move your sprayer from the peak of your roof to a spot 3 4 ft 0 91 1 22 m down.

Run the cobalt blue down the gulleys between the tiles. Add a touch of very dark shadow color under the bottom row of tiles. Work with the slope of the roof adding parallel broken lines of colour. We indicate the tiles or shingles with the same colour over our first wash.

The roof will be safe to collect rainwater for drinking after 7 days. Paint the divisions between the ridge tiles and the shadow beneath with a small round or liner brush and burnt umber mixed with ultramarine. Using a 2 round brush we give the impression of the roof covering.