Having tried your hand at creating a Scottish look, you can safely switch to your native landscapes. Our midland landscapes are not much different from the English ones. Unless they seem more comfortable. But this is a subjective feeling. Objectivity lies in the fact that the writing techniques mastered in this lesson will help you a lot in independent creativity.
It is necessary
A sheet of paper for watercolors measuring 40 * 60 cm, an HB pencil, flat brushes No. 3, 6 and 8, round brushes No. 4 and 00, a vessel with water, watercolor paints
Instructions
Step 1
Making a sketch. Using an HB pencil, sketch out the main outlines of the scene. In the light areas of the composition, try to barely press on the pencil, outlining the lacy contours of the foliage with slightly noticeable lines. On shaded areas of paintings (denoting shadows), press harder on the pencil.
Step 2
Underpainting the sky. Dilute some ultramarine and cobalt blue in the water on your palette. Quickly apply paint to damp paper where the sky should be. This will cause the paint to flow. Rinse the brush. Dilute some carmine and burnt umber in water on a palette and paint the bottom of the clouds.
Step 3
We outline the foreground of the picture. Moisten the foreground of the painting with water. Using the tip of a # 8 flat brush, scribble the grass using a wash of ocher and burnt umber and orange paint. Apply the paint with energetic “textured” strokes, thereby revealing the main details of the foreground. Add other colors to the wash as you work - emerald green, forest green, burnt umber, ocher and cadmium yellow.
Step 4
We write foliage. With the same brush, "throw" small spots of emerald green paint with the addition of ocher and burnt umber - where we should have foliage. Mark the edges of the trees with “puddles” of green paint. Bring the paper close to your mouth and blow hard on the paint. Remove excess paint with a paper towel.
Step 5
We depict the trunk and branches of a tree. Take the number 00 round brush and paint the trunk and branches of the tree with burnt umber. At the same time, part of the branches is visible in the gaps between the angry spots of foliage. Constantly check the "structure" of the tree with its photographic image.
Step 6
We paint the foreground of the picture. Take a flat brush no. 6, mix the yellow cadmium with a little burnt umber and paint the field in the foreground of the painting. Add a little burnt umber and orange paint to the mixture and use a stiff toothbrush to rub the paint over the "grassy" area in the foreground - this way you will be able to "repeat" individual stems of grass.
Step 7
Add details. Prepare an intense mixture of burnt umber and black paint, take a # 2 flat brush and paint in the missing branches on a large tree. Sharpen the already written branches on the front of the tree, but do not touch the distant branches - this way you will be able to emphasize the “three-dimensionality” of the tree.
Step 8
We imitate the movement of foliage. With a few strokes of paint, simulate the movement of foliage swaying in the wind. With a # 4 round brush loaded with a mixture of burnt umber and ocher, add dynamics to the swaying grass.
