Leisure Painter - UK (2019 - Summer)

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Watercolour

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Step 2 First washes

1 Mix a large pool of yellow ochre and a pool of ultramarine

blue and burnt sienna in your palette. Wet the area above

the horizon line with clean water and add the pools of

colour using the two wash brushes.

3 While this is still wet add more colour to give variation.

Allow this to dry.

4 Use the smaller wash brush to apply cobalt blue

to the loch.

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Step 4 Foreground

1 Dilute some of the grey in the palette to paint

the grey shingle beach between the foreground

and the headland with the large Round brush.

2 Cover the foreground mainly in burnt sienna

with a touch of yellow ochre, occasionally using

the smaller wash brush.

3 Before this is dry use the large Round brush

to add less diluted colours and let them mix.

Colours to add are alizarin crimson, French

ultramarine and yellow ochre. The more

haphazard you apply the colours, the better

the result. Don’t be tempted to fiddle and don’t

add too much water to avoid back runs. Use the

point of the brush to flick upwards now and

then to create the impression of tufts of grass.

4 The headland is a mix of ultramarine blue

and burnt sienna with a little water added;

think of the texture of single cream. This

keeps your colours from drying too light.

5 I reapplied the mix here and there to imply

form and added a touch of yellow ochre near

the shingle beach. This was all done with

the large Round brush.

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Step 3 Hill definition

1 Revive the pools of colour in the palette. Using a hit-and-miss

approach and a large wash brush, allow some of the initial washes

to show through, creating texture and form in the hillside.

2 Dab the grey mix in the yellow areas to suggest trees. I wanted

to retain the tone of evening sunlight on the hills so was careful

about how much grey I added.

3 Just before this dries use a Round brush to suggest rock

crevasses here and there.

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Step 1 Drawing

Using a straight edge lightly draw the horizon line where the loch meets

the hills then suggest the headland and foreground. No further drawing

is needed, as the trees and other details will be painted over a lighter

background. If you prefer, however, add these in pencil now.

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