Woods, Meadow and Lake | Step by Step Tutorial | Water Colour Painting

Hi dear Steemians! Today I would like to share an artwork of woods, meadow and lake. This artwork was inspired by Lindsey (Thefrugalcrafter). You can view her artwork here. I made my painting a little different compared to her's as I painted some of the areas on my artwork differently especially the trees and mountains.

Tools and Materials

• A good quality artblock that can absorb water
• Buncho water colours
• Paint brushes
• 2 containers of water (one to mix paint and one to clean brush)
• A tissue paper - important for lifting technique and to absorb excess paint / water
  
  

Step by Step Tutorial

First of all, I used the wet-on-wet technique by picking some water using a medium flat brush and brushing it on my paper. Be careful not to apply too much of water. In case you feel that your paper is almost drenched wet, just use a piece of tissue and absorb the excess water. After wetting my paper, I used the same brush and picked up some light blue paint and applied it gently on the wet areas of the paper. It is best to paint it slightly darker than you would like it to be because water colour dries lighter than how it looks when it is wet.

Then, I quickly grabbed a piece of tissue paper and lifted some of the paint on certain areas to make clouds. It is completely up to you how you would like your clouds to appear. My personal preference is in clumps of diagonal direction.

I switched to a small round brush and painted some blue mountains. This is a flat layer without any dimensions.

Before the paint dry, I used my brush to push most of the paint to the left side of the mountains so that I can create some shadows and highlights. Then, I painted some light blue for the lake.

I painted the grass textured ground with green. I mixed the dark green, light green and yellow to make different shades of green. I wanted the bottom one third of the painting to be in a vibrant colour so I painted mostly yellow on that area.

I used a small flat brush and painted some vertical looking longer grass like parts. Though they do look like long grasses, they are supposed to be the background of what I am going to add next. I mixed some dark blue with the dark green to further emphasize the shadows of this area.

Then, once it was dried, I painted some trees in shapes that were close to cones in dark green. In order to make it darker to emphasize on some shadows, I added some dark blue and brown too especially at the bottom areas using a small round brush. I also painted more dilute light blue on the lake area.

I made some strokes using light green on the yellowish green areas of the painting. I did mix some dark green and golden brown here and there to make some parts darker and some warmer as the light green was on the cooler side of the colour wheel. After that, I painted little red and yellow flowers all over the yellowish green area. As you can see on the picture above, I also brushed some water on the middle parts of the lake and brushed most of the paint to the edges of the lake to give the middle parts some highlight. Then, I went back to the trees and added more highlights with a light green as they looked flat before. I also made the shadows darker by adding a tiny bit of black to the dark green and dabbed it here and there.

I was not satisfied with the mountains as they were in a cool blue. So, I wet my small round brush and brushed it on the mountains. Then, I added some dilute black paint on the shadowy area. I also blended out the harsh lines around the mountain by painting a very small amount of water on them. Apart from that, I made some minor adjustments on green part of the background on the tree areas. I used the lifting technique to lift some paint off and added light green to give the background a slight contrast.

My painting is done. Hearts for reading my post so far x

This is the completed painting. I hope that you enjoyed reading my post and I will be happy if you have learned something out of my tutorial. Thank you for checking it out and sending love and blessings to you x

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