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How to draw mountains with watercolor

teacher avatar Ekaterina Azeeva, watercolor artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:19

    • 2.

      Step 1: pencil drawing

      1:47

    • 3.

      Step 2: wet on wet technique

      5:25

    • 4.

      Step 3: mountains & semi-dry technique

      8:13

    • 5.

      Step 4: details with white gouache

      2:20

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About This Class

Hello!
My name is Katya. And I have been painting with watercolor for almost 5 years. During this time, I made more than 60 offline workshops. And now I want to share my knowledge with more people. I believe that everyone can draw and I want you to believe in this too!

This lesson is perfect for watercolor lovers of all levels.

If you just start drawing, then you will learn the technique "wet on wet" and how to draw with semidry brush.

If you already paint with watercolor, you will deepen your knowledge of color contrast and watercolor techniques.

In addition, I will tell you how to:
- work with very textured paper;
- break complex relief of the mountain into simple parts;
- make a smooth gradient fill;
- draw fog and clouds;
- quickly draw the relief of mountains with watercolor;
- use a semi-dry brush;
- how contrast helps us draw volume.

In the end of the lesson, you will get a new watercolor painting, that will be a great interior decoration. Also you will get the skills that you will need in the further study of watercolor.

You can find reference photo and my drawings into the attached files.

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Ekaterina Azeeva

watercolor artist

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Hello! My name is Katya.

And I have been painting with watercolor for almost 7 years. During this time, I made more than 60 offline workshops. And now I want to share my knowledge with more people. I believe that everyone can paint and I want you to believe in this too!

 

 

I lived in Saint-Petersburg and now I am based in Berlin.

 

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1. Introduction: Hi guys. My name is Kate and I have been painting with the gala for five years. You can find more off my paintings and short we judge tutorials on my instagram page. It is my nickname. Don't forget to subscribe. And today I want to tell you about growing mountains about its contrast, color, feeling and difficult structure. So if you want to know how to draw mountains with what Akala, then this lesson is for you. In this lesson, you will learn how to break complex, relive off the mountain into simple parts. How to make a smooth, radiant field. Also, you really on how to draw folk and clouds, how to use a semi dry barrage. I will tell you how to quickly draw the really off mountains with water column. How interest helps us their award. The end of the lesson you will get and you want to color painting. That will be a great interior decoration. Let's get started 2. Step 1: pencil drawing: I start with the pencil drawing first I draw the outer counter off the mountains. Now I begin to draw the boundaries between light and shadow. There you live off the mountains is created by this contrast between light and shadow the mobile This you draw the more detailed drawing You get a usually draw lines that separate life pieces off. Really? Now why should those past in which the shadow is the doctors? This will help me grow with the water column. The last step is the horizon line. It shouldn't be even because this line is blurry due to folk. 3. Step 2: wet on wet technique: Before you start painting with watercolors, you need to prepare pains to do this. A drip, a drop of clean water into the trades that I use. This are orange can agree. Don't kobylt Withrow Marine brown and purple As always, I opened using wet on wet technique to do this. At first, I'm Austin's entice her face off the sheet with clean water. Well, the paper is absorbing the water. I mix orange and Kinnock carried on. This way I get a peach color for painting the sky at sunset. I paint along the horizon with this column. Now I at yellow to the mixture that is a Lloreda on the palate, and they paint with the scholar high up to make the bland off callus smooth. I till Italy bought. I had clean water to the top of the sheet to in haste, the Grady and from light yellow to teach. I remove excess water around the ages with napkin and didn't surprise the garland along the horizon. The game Now I make Scoble with Ken, agreed on and drop below the horizon. Now I spent with beach collar where the light heats the mountain. I can agree don't to change this, Calleigh little. I had gobbled in the blue violet color, and they continue to paint the sky I paint over the entire space off the sky With this column Now, I rinse out the brush, dry it with the napkin and start painting the folk to do this with the clean, slightly wet brush, I begin to remove the pain near the mountain, directed the brush around its axis, a little toe, make the stroke more around it. This way, the soft mist sensation is transmitted more strongly. I continue to remove excess paint where see White Walk. Now I will draw the mountain for these mix Kobylt, Kinnock, Redon and Orange. With this Cal, I bent over the entire area with Mountain. Since the paper exhilarated right, I make a more liquid great collar off mountain, and I paint over the remaining areas. Now I will paint fork on the mountain again. I take a wet, clean brush and begin to remove excess band with the round strokes. Be sure to clean the brush with a napkin before taking the next stroke. 4. Step 3: mountains & semi-dry technique: Now I will draw the mountain in more detail. Almost all work will be done using the same dry brush. This is the easiest way to the all the complex structure off the mountain without spending a lot of time. First, I use a mixture off in diggin purple. With this almost black collar, I begin to paint the shadow. Small trees are also visible here. Depend them. I simply pull the brash, particularly on the sheet. This creates sharp to angular strokes that perfectly depict the Seelert off trees. Didn't, in fact, that there is little water on the brush Brush cannot paint over the entire space off the paper. Due to this, the light sports or the previous layer. At PM I paint over all the dark areas that I drone with the pencil in the first step. Now I make squabbled and orange. I get a great color with reach. I paint over the entire right side off the Mountie. This side is in the shadow, so we don't see the detailed structure off the mountain. This is how we can draw the bottom. If the subject is in the shadow, then we reduce the degree of detail. If this object is in the light, then we draw the details with maximum contrast. I am Dr Purple two Grey. This way I paint the shadow on the mountain. More pictures clean as I constantly used different shades. I always look at the reverence and darkened those parts off mountain, where I see the most dark sports off shadow. There is a small clout on the right to throw it. I will, in haste, the contrast between the shadow off the mountain and the light cloud to do this. I outlined the outer border off the cloud, and they just darken the mountain around this cloud to make the cloud softer. I smooth the border a little with the clean with brush. I blow the border between the cloud and margin. I do this not everywhere, but only the age. This will make the cloud both hot in some places and very soft. Give this cloud some bottom. I take a light gray color and start painting a shadow at the bottom. Off this cloud, I try to make groundstrokes to emphasize the softness off the cloud. - I'm ex corporate and orange gain with a semi dry brush continue painting part off the mountain in the light, the maximum contrast of light and shadow. It is important to give the pitch cow tow. The left off the dock border off the shadow, therefore, use gray in the lower part of mountain. Getting closer to the top. My strokes become narrow in order to save the peach collar as much as possible to make the shadow look the same. Deep on the left and right, I make the column more situated on the left. I just spend a couple of strokes using dark purple. Not that I'm constantly painting with the same dry brush. When the mountain is in the light, it is very important to leave a glimpse or the light layer to create volume. And the really I constantly changed the shade of gray a little. Sometimes I add a little more orange, or I had more cobalt. This way, we use Main Chase off the one color, and our droving starts to look more interesting with the clean with brush, nor the relief in the lower part of the mountain. Since we have folk there, - I make the collar off the shadow more situated on the right, and I'd write everything with head rhyme 5. Step 4: details with white gouache: The last step is painting with white Grosh. I paint again with the same dry brush to emphasize the mountains. Really, I paint with White Wash only on the left side of the mountain. I make bright white highlights where I see the light, the sports off the mountain. - I am his the white on the border with the shadow. This way I make the contrast even stronger. And thus I add volume to the mountain. - That's all. Thank you for watching my lesson. I really appreciated to draft me as a teacher. Don't forget to subscribe to my still share account here Every month I make you or to Cala lesson also, I will be really glad to see your paintings. You can post it in the student project section so I hope to see you soon by