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WATERCOLOUR LESSON 9



This is a watercolour lesson based on Loch Shiel Scotland
The lake is usually showing black water with very little sky reflection

Materials Used

Brushes:1 Hake type or Mop type
1 Flat soft brush for blending in the sky
1 No 8 &1 No 6 Plus 1 No 2 Rigger
1 Dip pen (or feather quill)
Soft pencil
Masking fluid
Paints:Burnt & raw sienna,French/Ult/Blue
Light Red, tinLemon Yellow,Paynes Grey,Neutral tint

Rem to use a soft lead pencil for this rough sketch showing the layout required

Biro outline to show the area to be masked out including rock outcrop on right and also being careful to mask out the shards of land protruding into the black lake.Also remember to allow for a narrow strip of water below fir tree area

Apply a wash of Burnt sienna + raw sienna to the sky area and taken down to lake. Now whilst still wet add a stiffish mix of French/ult blue + light red and form sky using mop or hake brush and blending in with a soft dry flat brush, being careful to use very light strokes to avoid lines.

Apply a medium strength wash of r/sienna to lake area and whilst still wet add a strong mix of f/ult + neutral tint(or rowneys paynes grey + f/ult blue) to both sides of lake and blend and fade towards centre.Remember this is a black surface lake with very little sky reflection

Remove masking to lake area leaving rocks & stones masked and apply a wash of pale lemon yellow(or similar) to lake foreground and land shards. Apply a wash of r/sienna + b/sienna to mountain area

When mountain dry apply a medium wash of r/sienna + b/sienna to mountains following natural contours and leaving some patches of original wash showing, and as this wash dries add a mix of f/ult +l/red and form shadow sides of mountains whilst still observing contours. suggest a little foliage etc to bottom left mountain

Apply a medium wash of b/sienna + r/sienna to fir tree area and whilst still wet form the fir trees using a dip pen and a stiffish mix of paynes grey + lemon yellow .Allow the fir tree bases to run and merge into the wash , also add a little texture using b/sienna & r/sienna and suggest foliage bushes etc,add a little l/yellow to area behind stones

Two fir trees are added on left also two bushes at lower bottom left of mountain.Masking is removed from stones and outcrop and these defined with a little pale blue/grey and broken lines,the foreground and area behind rocks need extra texture plus bushes added to this area behind stones.Now check over whole painting and tidy up any missing small details