![]() This helps the viewer understand that this is water and not frozen ice or land. ![]() I also used cobalt blue to make thin horizontal lines in the stream. I wish I used cobalt blue because the sepia looks too brown to me….so you use cobalt blue not sepia…okay? □ Step 8: In this step I used sepia to paint reflections in the water. Step 7: Using a weak mixture of cobalt blue and water, paint the tree shadows streaking across the grass. Start from the bottom, the large trunk, then work your way up with thin branches. The left tree was painted with a mixture of sepia and violet. Step 6: The two trees on either side of the stream was painted with a thin rigger brush and sepia watercolor paint. ![]() Let it do its job and blend into the grasses. Step 5: While the grass area is wet, touch the sides closest to the stream with a mix of yellow ocher and cobalt blue. While wet, continue down with pure yellow ocher. For this step, paint the grass closes to the horizon yellow ocher and lime green. In winter when there is no snow, the grasses take on a beautiful golden amber color. Step 3: For the background trees, mix sepia and cobalt blue. Just drop the cobalt blue by touching the bottom half of the stream and let the blending take care of itself. While the stream is wet, touch the bottom of the stream with cobalt blue. Step 2: Using cerulean blue, paint the sky and the stream. ![]() The stream is skinny at the horizon line but broad and wide at the bottom of the paper. Next we will only sketch 3 individual trees instead of all the ones we see in the photo. To simplify, the background trees will be grouped together as a lump. The horizon is 1/3rd of the way down from the top of the paper. Step 1: With a pencil, draw a simple sketch. When I want to do a quick and easy sketch, I sometimes squint my eyes to get an overall idea of color and shading on large sections of the painting. It will be a very simple watercolor sketch. This scene was taken from Knock Knolls in Naperville, IL. Head on over to Patreon to get all the fun details.This is Let’s Paint Nature’s 500th post! To celebrate, let’s post a free step by step watercolor demonstration!!! And let it be an easy on at that. Get early access to the tutorials before they’re released on YouTube.Join my Patreon community! You have a variety of fun options to choose from like: … and for even more tutorials, subscribe to my YouTube channel! Get access to all my favorite art supplies and business tools here. Ready to paint your serene winter landscape masterpiece?Ġ2:58 – Adding salt and white gouache for snow flakes.Ġ8:19 – What happens if you don’t wait until paint dries…Ġ8:35 – Paint dry, now for wet-on-dry trees.Ġ9:35 – Adding snowflakes and snow details to trees. We’re using those same techniques-salt, white gouache, and negative space-in this nature-inspired piece. It was my nemesis until I nailed down some very simple techniques that I first introduced to you in the Christmas Village tutorial. To be honest, I struggled with painting snow for a while. What’s the main element of a winter landscape painting? SNOW! But the fluffy white stuff isn’t so intuitive for watercolor.
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