Here is an easy project that offers some tips for painting a watercolor picture of a simple landscape
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Copy the design onto 140 lb watercolor paper. This is the heavy paper that does not buckle when it gets wet. If it is too hard to trace through the heavy paper, try holding it against a window with the light shining through. If you want to make a larger picture, try enlarging it on a copier before tracing.
Wet parts of the sky randomly and then swish in some blue but be sure to leave some areas white for the clouds. Under-paint the background trees with a light mustard color it is like tan but keep it pale and watery. Under-paint the trees and grasses with a watery yellow. Under-paint the path with a watery, muddy brown. Use some muddy blue on the tree trunks. Keep everything watery at this stage.
While the color is still damp, add brown to the background trees.
Dabb green, yellow, and light brown in the foreground trees. Keep it damp but not wet.
Use long back and forth sweeps of the brush to fill in green, yellow-green, and brown-green grass.
Mix blue and brown for the dark areas on the tree trunks.
Dab brown and green-brown for the bushes under the trees.
After the sky is dry, add a little watery brown or yellow in the clouds, the color should be thin and very pale, so it looks a little off-white.
As you are painting, be sure to pay attention to how dark the background trees are, and the foreground trees are lighter and brighter.
Before the background dries, use a little water and blend the colors and make sure there is not too much detail showing.
Dab more yellow and green into the foreground trees. As you dab, look for patterns so that the shape is not flat. Use brown-green for shadow areas in the tree.
Remember to add the dark background trees between the trunks of the foreground trees.
Use the tip of the brush to draw details.
Use the tip of the brush to draw the texture in the path in brown and gray. Also, use the tip of the brush to draw the texture on the tree trunks in dark gray. Use the tip of the brush to draw more texture in the foreground grass by drawing a few darker green lines across the grass.
(C) Adron D. 3/25/16
CLICK HERE for a file in PDF format.
PRINTABLE PROJECT NOTES.
Copy the design onto 140 lb watercolor paper. This is the heavy paper that does not buckle when it gets wet. If it is too hard to trace through the heavy paper, try holding it against a window with the light shining through. If you want to make a larger picture, try enlarging it on a copier before tracing.
Wet parts of the sky randomly and then swish in some blue but be sure to leave some areas white for the clouds. Under-paint the background trees with a light mustard color it is like tan but keep it pale and watery. Under-paint the trees and grasses with a watery yellow. Under-paint the path with a watery, muddy brown. Use some muddy blue on the tree trunks. Keep everything watery at this stage.
While the color is still damp, add brown to the background trees.
Dabb green, yellow, and light brown in the foreground trees. Keep it damp but not wet.
Use long back and forth sweeps of the brush to fill in green, yellow-green, and brown-green grass.
Mix blue and brown for the dark areas on the tree trunks.
Dab brown and green-brown for the bushes under the trees.
After the sky is dry, add a little watery brown or yellow in the clouds, the color should be thin and very pale, so it looks a little off-white.
As you are painting, be sure to pay attention to how dark the background trees are, and the foreground trees are lighter and brighter.
Before the background dries, use a little water and blend the colors and make sure there is not too much detail showing.
Dab more yellow and green into the foreground trees. As you dab, look for patterns so that the shape is not flat. Use brown-green for shadow areas in the tree.
Remember to add the dark background trees between the trunks of the foreground trees.
Use the tip of the brush to draw details.
Use the tip of the brush to draw the texture in the path in brown and gray. Also, use the tip of the brush to draw the texture on the tree trunks in dark gray. Use the tip of the brush to draw more texture in the foreground grass by drawing a few darker green lines across the grass.
(C) Adron D. 3/25/16
