The Artist - UK (2021-04)

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PRACTICAL

April 2021 37ii

u FINISHED PAINTING

Morning Mists, gouache on paper, 6 3 8in (15 3 20.5cm).

To finish off , use your blue/brown mix to paint the bush

in the left-hand corner and add some dead grasses to

the foreground

q u STAGE FIVE
With a dilute violet, start to paint in the
shadow areas within the trees. Then use
a dilute mix of Indian yellow to paint in
a swathe of foreground, going over all
the previous spatter texture. Do not over
brush or you will lift all the underlying
paint. Take a mix of burnt sienna and
violet and paint in the V-shaped area in
the foreground

p STAGE SEVEN

Take some semi-dry violet and dry brush the tops of the trees. Then, with

the rigger, weave the ascending branches up the into dry-brushed area with

the same blue/brown mix used for the trunks

p STAGE EIGHT
With a brush full of fairly dilute white, start to paint over
the lower area of the trees, taking care not to be too
heavy-handed or you will dislodge all the underlying
paint. This will produce the lovely early morning mist
that cloaked the scene

p All the basic textures and foreground areas have been

developed

u STAGE SIX

With a juicy mix of

ultramarine and

burnt sienna, start to

fashion the numerous

tree trunks, working

from the ground level

upwards