Pleinly® Art Gallery & Academy
Free Watercolor Art Tutorial & Plein Air Videos
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.
Plein Air Painting in Paris & Giverny June 2026
In this video, you can follow my plein air painting trip in Paris and Vernon-Giverny. I am also demonstrating Monet Garden painting from the photo. I am using the followng products:
- Pleinly Watercolor Easel Set
- Pleinly Loose Watercolor Paper CP type-L (10.6×14.2″)
- Pleinly Watercolor Sketchbook HP type-L (8×12″)
Filmed June 2026
Plein Air Painting with Watercolor & Kayaking Adventure:
In this video, yo ucan follow my plein air painting kayaking trip to 3 islands in the Gulf of Finland. I am using the followng products:
- Pleinly Watercolor Easel Set
- Pleinly Loose Watercolor Paper CP type-L (10.6×14.2″)
- Pleinly Watercolor Sketchbook CP type-L (8×12″)
Filmed 7th May 2026
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.
Plein Air painting in Espoo, Finland, 1st Sep 2025:
24 hours, kayaking to an island and sleeping in tent, painting 4 paintings. Demo of 1st painting. Using
- Pleinly Watercolor Easel Set
- Pleinly Wet Panel Carrier
- Pleinly 8×12″ sketchbook CP type-L
- Pleinly Water Painting Boards
- Pleinly Loose Watercolor papers (11×14″ HP, CP & Rough).
