Birch Trees In The Snow. - A Scraping Watercolor Lesson

 

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Art Lessons by Captain Watercolor

 

 

This lesson introduces the technique of scraping into watercolor paints. Its a nifty little trick that comes in handy quite often.

 

We will be mixing techniques; "wet in wet" with "drybrush" ( dry brush ) to generate this simple yet interesting painting.

 

The scene is a snow scene. A remembered view of a ski trail in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

 

What i love here is the intense sunny-ness of the scene. It's sunny for two reasons. First reason is the crispness of the shadows. Second, far more subtle, is the color of the shadows, blue. I cover this effect in depth in my lesson on "Shadows In The Landscape".

Watercolor palette showing a warm and cool paint for each of the primary colorsThis is a map of the captains color
palette.
See materials list below.

PAINTS

........( sedimentary )

0 - Red

1 - Yellow

2 - Green

3 - Blue

.......( non sedimentary )

4 - Cool Blue

5 - Warm Blue

6 - Warm Red

7 - Cool Red

8 - Warm Yellow

9 - Cool Yellow


PAPER
BRUSHES


For an explanation of the properties of the paints, ( Like warm and cool ) see the lesson on paints in the materials section.

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