The Duffer's Guide to Painting Watercolour Landscapes by Don Harrison

Author:Don Harrison
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2019-03-06T00:00:00+00:00

Fill gaps with additional branches to complete the tree.

Painting winter trees

Winter trees make great subjects for paintings. The bare branches allow you to see the structure clearly. Avoid the temptation to show trees as silhouettes, but paint them with shaded areas to emphasize their shape and depth.

exercise

Using a medium round brush, apply a light wash of Lemon Yellow and Raw Sienna to the trunk and main branches. Add a little Cadmium Red to the mixture and blend it into the still damp paint, leaving some of the previous layer showing through.

Before this dries blend a dull violet colour from Cadmium Red and Cobalt Blue into the trunk and main branches, again leaving some of the earlier colour showing.

Add French Ultramarine and Burnt Sienna to darken the mixture and apply this to the shadow areas where the branches split. Also add a vertical band of shading just off-centre down the trunk, blending it in to emphasize the roundness.

With the same mixture use a rigger, after first removing surplus paint from the brush on a piece of scrap paper, to pull out fine branches to the outer guideline. Leave gaps here and there or the tree will look too formal.

Again using the rigger, dot in a few random leaves over the finer branches and, if required, darken the mixture a little to emphasize the shadow areas.

Apply a sparse amount of dull yellow foliage over the finer branches with a medium round brush, using the side of the bristles. Allow to dry a little, then add darker colour as shading.

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