PAINTING PROJECT THREE

The Farm

the finished picture

return to watercolour gain    

return to main page      BILLBREC  ART     email:abaqua2@tiscali.co.uk

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

You can enlarge and print out any of the pictures  by just clicking on them.

Draw this simple picture.

Paint the sky. Paint the cloud shapes

with indian yellow and the cobalt blue

around.  

 

Weak mix of ultramarine and vandyke brown

for the distant hills.  Use a stronger mix for

the tree branches, windows and door.

Ultramarine and hookers green for

the nearer hills.

 

 

 Wet the trees behind the house and a couple

of the trees on the right.  Fill with cadmium yellow,

then (wet in wet) add hookers green and

yellow green, to give shape to the foliage.

 Hedge to right and bushes to the left of the

house, hookers green and yellow green,

use vandyke brown for the shading below.

Add some  indian yellow to the hills.

 

 

 Wet in wet, hookers green and

yellow green, and indian yellow

for the grass areas.

 Roof. weak paynes grey with

a bit of hookers green at the base.

Ultramarine blue

shading under the roof.

Wash of indian yellow for the wall and a

glaze if  weak vandyke brown.  

 

Weak wash of ultramarine blue for the road.

Paint in the gate with paynes grey.  Paint the

reflections in the water with a weak mixture of the

colours used before.  Paint in the grass with

dark and light greens and paynes grey.

top of page