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WATERCOLOUR
p STAGE FOUR
To pull areas of the foliage together I
mixed up my red/orange hues with the
painting medium and then started to
glaze these colours over the foliage.
This medium makes the paint even
more transparent – as you can see
from the close-up photo all the lovely,
underlying textures still show through.
Once most of the foliage had been
established I moved into the trunks
and branches. With my rigger and a
rich blue/brown mix I painted in the
dark trunks around the scene. You will
see that by this stage I had built up the
strengths in all the shadow areas of the
foliage, with relevant shadow colours
mixed with the painting mediump STAGE TWO
Using my yellows, orange and a touch of violet, I started to flick some basic textures into the
left-hand trees with the No. 4 brush. When flicking/spattering in a confined space, don’t use too
springy a brush as the paint will go everywhere. Moving across the painting, I began flicking in
the basic colours of all the different trees. With turquoise and a touch of violet I mixed up a fairly
fluid wash to build up all the cold, horizontal shadows over the frosty field, varying the mixes
as I moved across the painting. To paint the undergrowth beneath the trees I used a dark mix of
burnt sienna, ultramarine and violet, leaving a few white tree trunks
u STAGE THREE
Working into the tree areas, I spattered in
the basic colours of each tree, then gently
blended some of the spatters together with
the tip of the brush – I was still leaving lots of
white spaces within these areas. I also started
to paint in some of the branches here and
there.