Watercolor Painting With Leslie

by Leslie Gregory, Director of Kubota Projects at TracTru, LLC
Published October 25, 2022

Paint a watercolor picture of the classic L200 Kubota Tractor.
Download the Template

 

Materials

  • A copy of the L200 Kubota tractor template printed on watercolor or regular paper
  • Watercolor paint
  • Medium and detail sized paintbrushes
  • Glass of water
  • Paper towel
  • Pencil

Painting the L200 Kubota Tractor

  1. Download the template of the L200 Kubota Tractor and print it on either watercolor or regular printing paper. Note: The template will be very faint, so that the lines don't show through the watercolor paint. The real star of the project is your painting skills!
  2. Locate all your supplies and get everything set up. You'll only need orange and black watercolor paints if you are painting a Kubota tractor!
  3. Using your medium brush, add a light wash of color to the tractor. This will serve as the "base" to your artwork, where you'll build upon and add futher details. Tip: Make sure that these base colors aren't too saturated (or dark) in hue. You can achieve this by only picking up a little bit of paint in your paintbrush and mixing it with more water. You will want to start out with a light wash of color so that the background colors of the tractor are filled in. You'll add darker colors with the details soon!
  4. Allow the base colors to dry completely before moving on to the next step. When working with watercolors, if the layer isn't completely dry and you add more color on top of it, the paint will start to bleed together, blending and muddying the details.
  5. Using the same medium brush, start adding shadows and contrast to the tractor with darker versions of each base color. Tip: A good way to tell where a shadow would be is to think of where you normally see shadows in objects. If something is overlapping with another item, you can add a shadow in between the two to provide contrast!
  6. Allow this layer of paint to dry completely before moving on to the next step.
  7. Taking your small detail brush, gather even darker, more saturated versions of each color and add fine details to the tractor. This can be places like the treads on the tires, the seat, the steering wheel, the engine parts, etc!
  8. Allow this layer of paint to dry completely before moving on to the next step.
  9. Artwork is never complete without a signature! Using a pencil, add your initials to the painting.