Leisure Painter - UK (2019 - Summer)

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Fisherman’s hut

1 Paint the chimney first, with two shades

of madder brown to indicate the direction

of the light, sharpening the edges with

a No. 2 Colour Shaper.

2 Paint the roof next with cerulean, purple

grey and a hint of raw sienna for the lichen

on the right. The slender ridgeline can

be drawn with a terracotta pastel pencil.

3 Block in the walls with a combination

of madder brown, raw umber, purple grey,

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green grey, red grey and raw sienna,

with more of the darker colours on

the shady side.

4 Paint the white window frames and door.

5 With a sharp charcoal pencil draw the

details of the stones, steps, doors and

windows, and remember the direction

of the light for the shadows.

6 Draw the lobster pots with charcoal

pencil and a white pastel pencil.

Harbour wall

1 As we are looking down on this

feature, we can see some of the top

of the wall. It is also more distant

than the cottage so it needs to recede.

Paint the top of the wall with raw

umber and the vertical plane with

shades of green grey, purple grey

and madder brown.

2 Add faint texture to the wall with

a charcoal pencil, but don’t overdo it.

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Step 3 Island and headland

1 Before starting on the island on the right

and the headland on the left, paint the

light horizon of the sea in between them

with some of the sky colours, as this part

of the sea needs to sit behind the closer

features. These two distant features do not

need a lot of detail and cooler colours will

help to make them recede. Paint them

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Step 6 Foreground cliff and retaining wall

1 The foreground cliff almost curls a protective arm

around the hut and to bring it forward we need to make

the colours warmer than the cliff behind the hut. Paint it

with a combination of green grey, and a dark tint of purple

grey for the shadow areas lower down, then warm up the

higher areas with raw sienna and red grey.

2 Add a few details of rock near the base with cerulean

blue and white pastel pencil.

3 The rough wall below the hut is a delightful combination

of manmade and natural features with a lot of complicated

detail, but in order to make sure the hut remains the focal

point, we need to simplify it considerably. Block in the basic

colours of the wall, the predominant colour being the bright

yellow lichen, using red grey, raw umber, purple grey and raw

sienna, adding the details of the stones and steps with the

charcoal pencil and white pastel pencil.

4 The sloping rocks below the wall can be painted with dark

green grey, dark purple grey, raw sienna and cerulean blue

for the lighter planes catching the light.

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Step 5 The fisherman’s hut and harbour wall

simply using green grey, purple grey

with a touch of sap green for the

highlights on the island. Use a No. 6

flat Colour Shaper to tidy up the edges

if necessary.

2 Continue blocking in the sea to portray

a vague reflection in the calm water,

using the same colours as the sky.

Step 4 Grassy cliff

The cliff behind the hut comprises rock and

rough grass but too much detail would compete

with the hut so using grass green, sap green,

raw sienna, raw umber, green grey and purple

grey roughly indicate the way the cliff embraces

and shelters the hut. Blend some of the colours

together but leave rough edges to portray grass

and a vague hint of rocks with pale raw umber.

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