A Garden for Sara: Watercolor Tutorial Unit 31 CTC

Oh the days are just flying by and I've had these pictures for a while. I've been procrastinating because there is only one more painting after this one. :-( last 2 weeks of school are poetry Memorization.

I hope like me you have had a renewed interest in the sky. Last night as my daughter and I were walking at dusk we discussed how we would paint the sky.It was all grey and pink and orange.

So here goes Day 2

Tape down your painting if you want it to dry flat.

here is how I set up my pallet. I read though the directions first in hopes that maybe this time I wouldn't make one mistake. Look how I paired the paints in the way I would be mixing them.

Mix up your paints prior to wetting your paper.

As you can see I didn't mix them up first but I struggled to keep my paper wet here. It wasn't that dry of a day but I think overall my paper is as dry as a flattened sponge

Brush paper with water.

Blot with Paper towel.

Paint an even light blue sky.

Now do the yellow.

Add some blue into your light blue wash to make it more intense.

Almost ready for the "hill" smudges.

Mix up blue and green

Paint in some smudges in a hilly formation.

Ok all done for today. Put your painting in a safe place to dry.

But since we're blogging. I'm going to dry mine super quick with a blow dry set on low.

Day 3

with my round brush I mixed up a green paint.

See yet another mistake. Somehow yesterday I dripped one dot of blue wash on my yellow!
I'm gonna have to cover that up!

I didn't like my green it was too close to yesterdays So I fiddled with the color a bit.

That is better.

Made some smudgy trees.

Don't use your tip to make smudges it will take forever and gives them to much detail.
Here you can see the left side is made with the side of the brush and the right side is made with the tip. Experiment and play around with your brush to see what it can do.