Frozen Beauty: Painting Winter Scenes

1. Intro: Hello. My name is Natalie, and I'm glad to welcome you to the lesson on the wind landscape. Today, I want to conduct a not quite usual lesson, but to experiment and improvise with watercolor, creating such winter watercolor sketches. It's possible to rely on a certain plot. But the most important thing I want to convey is the fact of these white frosty trees against the winter sky. Therefore, a lot and such a matter will depend on how watercolor behaves depending on the humidity of the paper and the amount of water on the brush. The result is difficult to predict. But nonetheless, it will be interesting. Let's try 2. Materials: Now, I will tell you what we will need. Of course, it is a watercolor sheet. I have cellulose here with a density of 250 grams, and I have fixed it on such a board so that the sheet is secure, doesn't curl and is more convenient to work with. We will need watercolor paints. I have selected colors that I see here, which are ultramarine, cobalt turquoise for the sky, paints gray for darkening, and possibly cobalt tread might be useful for some accents. Of course, we will need a brush. I suggest taking two one larder for feeling large surfaces, and one smaller for details. It's important that the brush had a sharp tip. It's convenient to work with it. A pencil and razor, a liner for detailing at the very end, tissues, a water container. And as a palette, I usually use a standard saucer because it's convenient to walk with a limited palette. This way, I squeeze out four colors that I will use thus will no longer be any temptation to reach for other shades. 3. Pencil drawing and water washing: So let's start. A pencil drawing here will not be particularly needed. The only scene I would like to outline for myself is where the horizon line will be. You can make the painting a continuation of another and start drawing. Once again, I will show the reference. Here you can imagine how the trees will be located, suppose on this sketch. Here, the trees will be located. And here will be some tall trees. In general, every sin is in your hands. Let's try. If you have a large brush, you can very quickly moisten the water color sheet with it. If there is no such brush, then just a little more time, go into moistening such a surface. The only thing is that the brush should preferably be solved so that the bristles don't scratch the watercolor sheet itself. And watch out for no accumulation of paddles, okay? 4. Watercolour drawing: And you need to prepare the color we will use. I immediately want to mix ultramarine and cobal turquoise, making a gradient from dog to a lighter shade. Let a little pint absorb and we will add water displacing the pigment. The same thing is done with the second half. Indeed, you need to watch for it to be sufficiently moist because otherwise a pint will immediately absorb and it will not be possible to create theft plant. Okay. Well, roughly, I go around those places where the trees will be. Now you can release the brush and start carefully adding and clean water from the edge so that it the pigment for importance. But here it is very important to wait for the moment when the color has already set. Okay. Okay. Let's wait a bit. Here it is already. So probably it makes sense to let the water go. Okay. And the water will already be displaced in the paint, creating such transitions. For creating some interesting effects, for example, such effects of glowing trees, you can use salt. Let's probably mix water and salt to demonstrate both effects. When the pain sets, you can also make some spray around the trees. Ammonia with water forming our trees. A A We help to spread the paint and some silts are already appearing. You can in some places make them manifest take an excess pigment with the brush. M. And then we draw the ground. We'll look where our shadows are located and depict them. I will use ultramarine with the addition of gray to show the shadows from the trees. The trees themselves. I will draw a later. Moist this area once again so that it's comfortable to draw. Here are the trees, the shadow falls, and all these can be demonstrated without any excessive detailing. Show the snow in front. You can depict such falling shadows that go somewhere to the center from different sides so that it compositionally looks more interesting. Then here already take a dry brush and depict the lines from the skis snowboarders, which remain on the snow because it is uneven Now I'm adding such a news. And further, we make it lighter. And then you can remove the paint with clean brush, leaving light traces. And somewhere I would like to darken it in contrast. Turn on your imagination. And then we proceeded to the trees themselves because they're not completely white. If you look at the reference, you can see that they are just dark gray at the bottom, and on the crowns, there are still dark spots. Therefore, you can moisten the trees and slightly tint them. We take a gray color. Some trees are even dark at the tops. So you can leave dark marks there. And here with the help of shadows from the trees, the horizon line is emerged. I want to add a bit of red color to my paints and display trunks. If you got to harsh edges, let's blur them. Try to add shadows in places where there are no such beautiful effects, so as not to hide them, but on the contrary to emphasize and reveal them. Leave such places untouched. For example, here, turned out beautiful stains from salt. We also leave it adding such spots around. As I already said, we don't redraw the plot one to one. But just create and can we this mood of a sunny winter day when the hole and scape becomes such white and blue. You can add splashes just in places of trees so that it looks iously Yes, part of the work is already done. That is the most important scene is to show to draw a beautiful sky against its background trees and the foground. I summarize everything that we have done, and now we will dry it and add some details with a pen liner and maybe a bit of color. By the way, here on the dry, you can still make a few such characteristic stripes to diversify the foreground. You can even flow the brush. I'll show you now. For this, and there shouldn't be too much water. Such stripes are remain from the snow cat. If it turned out to bright, you can always blow them above and it will no longer be so stricken. Well, we can finish the water color pot at this point and slightly dry it. You can wait, but I will use the head dry so that you don't have to wait too long. A. 5. Details with liner and conclusion: The sheet has dried. But now all this will still be such a bit row and interesting. But the liner is able to walk wonders. We will now add a few details also without any excessive detailing. I just know the trunks of trees and somewhere at branches. Also, with a liner, you can darken places, show how plants are in the distance. And you can imitate foliage branches with tidy lines. And gradually something understandable to our eyes. Understandable for perception will begin to emerge. The most important scene is to show the trunks from below. Thanks to this, there will be darkening and a more understandable and familiar picture for our eyes. Such a combination of spontaneity, carelessness of water color, and detailing with a liner gives such an interesting combo. And here, I also want to draw reference as well, quick sketch. In order to make it visually. Okay. And here we have a red sign, which I think it was drawing. On this side, let's depict a skeer. We draw him a little lower, so they are not on the one level with a sign. We will draw it by spots, a spot on the jacket. There is somehow shown a hand, and here let's draw his keys. We don't need too much details. I think it's rather clear now. Let's say bright notes. I know it doesn't look too boring. Such bright colors will enlive on the sketch and add life. There are really weren't enough of them here, and to prevent it from being too bright, you can blot it with a tissue. I also mix red and gray and will add a little of the shade to the trees. So that the colors harmonious and the integrity of the picture is formed. Such spontaneity turned out and you really like it. Let's remove the masking tape, and the most important thing, it is to weight for drying. Otherwise, you can spoil the paper. So remove it carefully. It turns out such a double landscape, which already has frames. If you have any questions you can ask. I will answer everyone. And the most important thing I wanted to convey to you is that you can make very quick sketches, given free into water color and just slightly framing it. Helping it go, helping it draw unique patterns, and it was trust in it because something beautiful may turn out. Thank you all for your attention. I hope you really enjoy it because I'm making new lessons about spontaneous watercolor drawings. I'm very waiting for your works. Draw and share your beautiful winter and I will give feedback to each of you. See you next time.