At this point, I wanted to start adding in trees/plants and started with the ones located in the middleground.
Remember, when painting anything natural, go for asymmetrical and irregular patterns and shapes! * Refer to the Watercolor Flowers and Rocks blog post/video.ġ0. I also made sure to place them in irregular patterns and to make some smaller than others. I added a few here and there, but made sure not to go overboard. I created a purple paint mixture and quickly practiced my lavender flowers before adding them into my painting. I jumped back to the middleground/foreground area, adding in deeper, darker greens where I saw them in the picture, allowing the lighter greens already there to show through.ĩ. It's important to be very careful when placing darker values of color because you risk flattening out your painting!Ĩ. I made sure to observe my reference picture constantly for this, but wasn't attempting to make everything exactly the same. Jumping back to the dry mountain area, I started adding in deeper, darker values. I decided to jump to the lake area of my picture because the sections around it were already dry.Īgain, I wet this area with clean water and started dropping in my blue paint mixtures, making sure to create a tonal variety since the beginning. I was very careful not to go overboard! Add some definition here and there, and leave other areas blurrier.Ħ. At this point, I went back to finish my sky area by adding darker blues and a bit more definition in specific areas of my clouds. I wet the entire mountain area and started dropping in and playing around with greens in this section, making sure to observe my reference picture in order to have a general idea of where darker values would be created later on (this is very important especially when there are overlapping elements present).ĥ. I then dropped in and played around with a few yellows/light greens until I had to allow that section to dry.Ĥ. I wet the entire grass section of my sketch using clean water.
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* Refer to the How to Paint a Watercolor Sky blog post/video.ģ. I then decided to allow my first layer of paint to dry, jumping to the opposite side of my painting. Using my two inch paintbrush, I wet my entire sky area using clean water and started adding in my first layer of blues, making sure to create a variety in values since the very beginning (I used my rag to do lifting wherever I wanted to create the illusion of clouds). I painted the first layer of my sky using the wet-on-wet technique. Personally, I don't like my pencil lines to show through my paint, so I do my best to draw as lightly as possible using an HB pencil and even go back to erase what I can before starting to add my color in.Ģ.
I created my initial pencil sketch lightly using my reference photograph as inspiration, but not stressing out about making it exactly the same. Check out my video about this topic over at my YouTube channel.ġ. Water control is one of the first skills we have to master when starting out with watercolor. I will also be sharing some of my personal tips and tricks that allow me to create specific textures, depth and dimension. In this post and the video included here, I will be taking you through my complete process, one-step-at-a-time. I'm here today to encourage you to give watercolor landscapes a try! If you have a basic understanding of this painting medium, as well as Art Fundamentals like perspective and proportion, it's not as difficult as you may think. This, if you ask me, is a complete shame. We often hear that watercolors are "difficult to control" and "unforgiving", which may cause beginners to stay away from painting certain types of compositions. Painting a watercolor landscape can definitely be daunting when an artist is just starting out with this medium, especially due to its fluidity and transparency. :)Įver wondered how to go about painting a watercolor landscape? Do you find complex, layered watercolor compositions too hard or intimidating to create? Are you curious about how to paint a unique landscape using a photograph as reference? I receive small commissions for purchases made through these links at no extra cost to you. These commissions help me keep this site up and running, in order for me to keep providing helpful and inspiring art content.
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