I highly recommend this product to you if you are looking for a beginner set of paints. This is the exact set I am using in the video above to create this painting. Our goal is quick and simple.Dioxazine Purple + Permanent Rose + a little Cadmium Orange = Purple Paint MixtureĬadmium Yellow + a little Cadmium Orange = Yellow Paint Mixtureīlack + Sage Green = Black-Green Paint MixtureĪll of these colors can be found in this perfect beginner set of watercolor paints. There are some things we just need to eliminate to reach our goal. If we detailed the whole painting it would be too much for a quick watercolor sketch. Why? Because we only want to define a little bit of detail closest to the viewer and not the whole painting. Next, paint some reflective grasses in the water, only on the bottom of the paper. Take that same sepia color and paint a line where the grass touches the stream to define a separation. When that is dry, paint grasses using sepia. Step 9 Final: In this step, using your fine rigger brush, paint some grasses only on the bottom of the painting using yellow ocher. This helps the viewer understand that this is water and not frozen ice or land. I also used cobalt blue to make thin horizontal lines in the stream. I wish I used cobalt blue because the sepia looks too brown to me….so you use cobalt blue not sepia…okay? □ Step 8: In this step I used sepia to paint reflections in the water. Step 7: Using a weak mixture of cobalt blue and water, paint the tree shadows streaking across the grass. Start from the bottom, the large trunk, then work your way up with thin branches. The left tree was painted with a mixture of sepia and violet. Step 6: The two trees on either side of the stream was painted with a thin rigger brush and sepia watercolor paint. Let it do its job and blend into the grasses. Step 5: While the grass area is wet, touch the sides closest to the stream with a mix of yellow ocher and cobalt blue. While wet, continue down with pure yellow ocher. For this step, paint the grass closes to the horizon yellow ocher and lime green. In winter when there is no snow, the grasses take on a beautiful golden amber color. Step 3: For the background trees, mix sepia and cobalt blue. Just drop the cobalt blue by touching the bottom half of the stream and let the blending take care of itself. While the stream is wet, touch the bottom of the stream with cobalt blue. Step 2: Using cerulean blue, paint the sky and the stream. The stream is skinny at the horizon line but broad and wide at the bottom of the paper. Next we will only sketch 3 individual trees instead of all the ones we see in the photo. To simplify, the background trees will be grouped together as a lump. The horizon is 1/3rd of the way down from the top of the paper. Step 1: With a pencil, draw a simple sketch. When I want to do a quick and easy sketch, I sometimes squint my eyes to get an overall idea of color and shading on large sections of the painting. It will be a very simple watercolor sketch. This scene was taken from Knock Knolls in Naperville, IL. This is Let’s Paint Nature’s 500th post! To celebrate, let’s post a free step by step watercolor demonstration!!! And let it be an easy on at that.
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