The Artist - UK (2021-04)

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DIGITAL ISSUE EXTRA CONTENT

37i April 2021

MATERIALS

l Schmincke Horadam gouache:

Indian yellow, cadmium orange,

burnt sienna, cobalt blue light,

ultramarine deep, violet,

titanium white.

l Cold-pressed watercolour paper,

roughly 6 3 8in (15 3 20.5cm).

l Brushes: DaVinci round No. 4 and

rigger No. 2.

l 2B pencil.

Paint wintry trees

in gouache

Barry Herniman invites you to join him in this quick, 30-minute exercise to

make a postcard-size painting in gouache

t STAGE TWO

With dilute cobalt blue,

paint in the sky, leaving

some white areas around

the tree tops

p STAGE ONE

With your 2B pencil draw the tree lines, field boundaries and the

foreground dark area

u STAGE THREE

With a mix of orange, burnt

sienna and violet spatter some

paint into the foreground area

I tend to favour

Schmincke Horadam

gouache as this medium

is so versatile. You can do

transparent watercolour

washes in one stroke

and opaque passages in

another.

t STAGE FOUR

Using the same mix,

spatter paint into the

tree areas and, whilst

the paint is still wet, use

the end of the brush to

pull paint up into the tree

tops. At this point all basic

textures have been built up,

ready for the next stage