PAINTING PROJECT ONE

Under the tree

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Equipment

Number 8 round

The colours were taken from this palette;

lemon yellow, cadmium yellow, permanent red, carmine, ultramarine,  cobalt blue,

yellow green, hookers green, indian yellow, vandyke brown, yellow ochre, payne's grey

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Draw this simple picture.

Paint the sky in cobalt blue. Adding more

water to make the lower sky paler.

Wet sea area, paint with weak cobalt blue. 

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Dark green (mix ultramarine and a little

cadmium yellow).

Keep the mix weak at the bottom

- to look like mist.

Very dark brownie, blue green (mix ultramarine,

vandyke brown, cadmium yellow).

Make the pine trees on the left detailed, then

the rest just pointy.

Weaken to the bottom.  Change your water.

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 Wet the foreground, wet in wet put in,

green(ultramarine and cadmium

yellow) and some yellow ochre.

 Dark colour (ultramarine and vandyke brown),

paint the reflection in the water on the right.

Paint the tree.  More dark colour made greener

with cadmium yellow  for the top hills

water reflections.

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 Dark green (cadmium yellow, ultramarine

and vandyke brown) for the tree leaves.

Use the side of the brush to get broken

a  foliage look.

 Use the same mix to paint the grass.

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