Snow Village using Dry Brush Watercolor Technique

1. Introduction : Hi guys, my name is Kate, and I really love to paint with watercolor. If you would like to learn more about my creativity, about my daily life as an artist, you can check my Instagram page. I post my daily inspiration and make small video tutorials, watercolor painting. I would be really glad if you subscribe today, I would like to paint winter landscape with you. Yes, I know it's already January, but I want to manage to paint this winter mood at least once in this season with you. In this lesson, you will learn how to prepare pencil drawing for watercolor painting. Now on how to use wet-on-wet technique. How to paint using only clean water, how to paint snow, and how to paint for ice to trees. So you will learn how to paint small details with white gouache. How to use liner brush. So let's get started. 2. Step 1: pencil drawing: I started with the pencil drawing. First, I draw the horizon line, then I outline the fence and draw a house. You may find the house difficult to draw, but try to break it down into simple geometric shapes and lines. The roof at the front looks like a triangle. Just remember to give the roof some thickness. So it doesn't look like a flat piece of paper vary from the site is a parallelogram. The walls of the house or rectangles. Now you can outline small objects or a pattern on the roof of the house, but don't go into too much detail. It's important to keep the pencil sketch light and clean so that it helps us in the next steps and not confuse this. I also drove windows. These are two rectangles slightly shifted the horizon line higher to be closer to the original photo reference. 3. Step 2: wet on wet technique : I like to paint the first layer in wet-on-wet technique. To do this, I read the entire space with the sky, with clean water. While the water is soaking into the sheet, I mixed the desire to paint on the palette and mix cobalt and cerulean blue to achieve a bright blue shade. Due to the fact we apply paint on wet paper, the paint quickly spreads over the sheet and doesn't leave streaks or uneven color spots. In order to mix different shapes and layers of paint. I tilt this sheet of paper to paint the prostate trees in the background. I rinse my brush out and drop drops of clean water into the necessary areas, then a tilt to the clipboard again. Like the clean water, push the pigment out of the paper and leave a white spot. You can form white spots as long as the paper remains wet. You can add more drops of clean water as I did to increase the area of frosted trees or not. If you're happy with the current shape, to make the trees even whiter and to fix the current shape, I collect excess water with a napkin. Watercolor paint spreads only on wet paper. The paper is dry, then the paint will not flow them. This way. You can manage and control the watercolor on the sheet of paper while the sky dries up, I will move on to painting the shadow in the foreground. I'm again working in wet-on-wet technique. So first, I wet the entire area with the snow with clean water. Then I take the same colors that I used during painting the sky, but dilute it a little more with water. Snow itself has no color, but it perfectly reflects the light of objects around. In our case, the snow reflects the color sky, only making it less saturated. When depicting snow, it's important to look at the reference and add blue paint on your way. You see it in the reference photo. I think you noticed what an interesting shadow in the form of horizontal lines costs offense on the snow. Therefore, appendix lines to depict snow. Thanks to the wet paper, this lines will blur a little and we can get a more natural shadow on the snow. Yeah, the fence, the shadows in the snow is more saturated, so don't be afraid to add more blue paint here. Now, I take a small synthetic brush to paint the shadows on this no more accurately. I carefully look at the reference and repeat the lines of the shadow in accordance with the water. The shadow from the fence on the left side of the picture is more curved due to the snowdrift. So I did start the horizon lines. In the right part of the picture, the shadow becomes more straightforward. At this stage, you can increase the blue color where you want it. In my opinion, I now don't have enough white spots in the snow to bring back some whiteness. I will use the same trick as we the trees in the sky. I rinse the brush out and bend lines with clean water. Due to the fact that the paper is still wet. The water pushes the pigment out of the paper and slightly rinses the areas we need. 4. Step 3: dry brush technique : Let's continue painting by going to the fence. I will paint the fence in a dry technique, since it's important for me to live a rough glimpses of white paper. This will be frost on the fence. The fence seems to be illuminated by the sun. I will start painting with more delicate shades mixed Conakry dawn and yellow for a warm beach shaped, read this color and make vertical strokes due to the fact that I paint on very textured paper, the brush itself leaves a rough stroke, which helps us to paint frost, remember to slightly change the shape by adding a little more yellow ocher, quinacridone, sell your painting will look more picture sec, I will also pay rent a house using dry technique. I mixed burnt sienna with a dark brown and paint over the front side, except the windows. In dark brown color. I paint the thickness of the roof. It's important to take a color darker than the color of the front as the roof is in the shadow with the same dark brown color. I paint the roof of other buildings. Next to paint the frost, I take the mix of burnt sienna with a dark brown color and to be the cemetery brush, live rough vertical strokes. Such a technique is possible only with sufficient roughness of the paper. I paint over the side of the house with a dark brown color, since it is in the shadow. As you can see, thanks to the correct arrangement of just two shades of brown, we were able to create volume. Let's get back to painting the fence with a dark brown color and the semi dry brush, I paint vertical strokes. These strokes are the fence boards. Remember to make boards of different length as shown in the reference. To convert perspective when painting the fence, you need to make vertical strokes closer and closer to each other as you approach the horizon line. Also, the closer the boards or to the horizon line, the less saturated the band becomes. More and more called blue shades appear in the board's Tibet to fit the fence into the overall landscape? I will in Hayes, the color of the shadow on the snow. To do this, I take a rich blue color and paint a shadow in the first half of the fence, since the rest of the fence is far away from us, the shadow on the snow is not seen so clearly. Mixing blue and brown, I bent the horizon friends board here. I'm looking precisely at the reference and paint a second horizon line at the far part of the fence. Also with this blue color, I paint a shadow in the vertical boards of the fence to give it more volume. Now, I move on to painting trees covered with frost. I mix yellow and quinacridone again to get a warm shade and again with a semi dry brush, I paint rough strokes in the middle of the white spots that we left under the trees to make the trees look more elegant, I paint thin branches along the edge of the trees. Here it is also important to change the shape of the frost by adding a little more quinacridone or yellow, don't go over, walk with the trees. It's important to keep them soft and translucent to convey the feeling. Frost sparkling in the sun. Now I paint the shadow on the snow on the roof with blue paint. The deepest blue shade will be at the bottom of the roof. This color, I blur upward with a clean wet brush. 5. Step 4: white gouache : With a mixture of unbind blue, I paint over the windows. And the paint is slightly noticeable pattern from the boards on the roof of the house. At this stage, the most small elements in the house you can see, the more interesting your painting will look. The last step, we will paint small elements using white gouache. I want to paint some blades of grass that protrude from the snowdrift. For this, I use a liner brush thanks to the long pile, this brush list and predictable strokes that perfectly depict the texture of the grass. With the same brush, I add white vertical strokes to the fence represent the pros. I also add some light highlights to the snow under the fence and they paint frozen wires. Now I've jumped a painting light highlights on the house. I select the roof and the windows with white gouache lethal. And again, paint a pattern on the front of the house. With the same brush. I add a dark blue shadow to the blades of grass to make them water minus. 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