I tried to make the lesson as complete as possible in terms of the number of photos - in fact, the painting process is very fast and more like calligraphy than painting - the stroke is long and the thickness of the stroke is varied by brush pressure.
In any case, Mila paints much faster than I photograph. And better...
1. The brushes that we will need to work with and a pencil practice sketch, on which we will test the consistency of the paint (not thick, but not liquid) to finish any element with one stroke:
2. We collect two colors of paint on the brush in the following way:
3. We do a simple exercise - we draw a straight line as far as possible - this will give you the opportunity to understand what consistency the paint should be for a long enough stroke:
4. We do the following exercise - a small arc: a straight black line shows the beginning of the stroke, the arrow shows the direction:
5. Next exercise. Exactly the same arc, only curved in reverse side. Having done two exercises together, we get the simplest element - a rose:
6. On a wider brush, we collect two other colors and perform the first exercise - we draw a straight line:
7. We take our sheet of drawing paper with a prepared graphic design and draw wave-like strokes (from two to four waves) - they form large individual petals:
8. Turning the sheet, we continue to apply stroke after stroke. Do not lift your hand while performing one stroke:
9. In the same way, smaller inner petals are created. Don't be afraid to work on wet paint:
10. Trim the bottom edge if yours is not very even:
11. And another trick: the edge of the brush on which you have White color, you can dip in cream (or vice versa, cream in white) - this way one stroke will give you three colors at once ... You can do more:
12. Make the next flower round, consisting of four or five petals. Pay attention to how white is mixed with cream in one stroke:
13. In the same way, create inner petals with wave-like strokes:
14. Try to finish your last inner stroke in such a way that there is no blank paper left in the center, and the stroke is even at the edge:
15. Here is what you should get:
16. Using a natural washcloth cut in the shape of a ball, apply the background various shades green (this is certainly not Zhostovo):
17. Draw the overall design with a pencil. If you don't have special tools (like a compass) don't get upset:
18. If you are satisfied with the consistency of the paint during the training exercise, start painting:
19. In the middle you can poke a cheap, short-cut brush, applying yellow and white:
20. On a small brush for greens, you can also type two shades at once:
21. The thickness of the stroke should be varied by pressing the brush (as in calligraphic works) and each element should be done with one stroke:
22. Draw a green bud (?) to each rose from below:
23. Start at the bottom and finish at the top, achieving a very sharp finish, gently lifting your hand with a brush from a sheet of paper:
24. The buds should not be the same shape as the green elements:
25. Now a little about the leaves: the leaves are made in the same way as the flower petals, only the wave-like movements of the brush are more frequent:
26. Type white and green on the brush:
27. Try to make such a wave-like movement, making sure that the brush does not come off the paper:
28. When you finish the top of the sheet, the brush should turn as follows to form a point:
29. You can add pink-lilac to white:
30. Your finished standard sheet:
31. With the same (wide) brush, draw a stem - the base of the leaf:
32. If all your papers are the same, the work may look boring:
33. You can finish the second side as usual:
34. Draw a leaf stalk with a wide brush:
35. And one more variety, the most difficult to perform:
36. Having practiced on our draft, let's continue working on our project:
37. We fill in our work with leaflets. In order to make the work more fun, we use different shades of green, different leaf shapes and different design of the position of the leaves on the plane - with a little practice, you will learn! The best tutorial is photographs of designs that someone has already made. Once you master general principles, you can create your own designs with ease:
38. Do not be afraid to call your leaves on already drawn flowers! Such overlaps will only enrich your design:
39. Don't be afraid to cover up fresh paint on freshly painted leaves:
40. Change the shape and arrangement of the leaves, do not forget:
41. Do not forget about the cuttings - they will help you fix the middle of the leaves:
42. Adding a new color to our palette. if the paint is thick, drop some water and use an old brush to stir exactly the place where you dripped:
43. After all the work done, the new flower will seem like a joke to you! Please note that acrylic paints good quality cover any color at once:
44. Let's continue our painting, armed with a new element:
45. Take an old brush, cut it short and poke yellow and white into the middle of the flowers, you can't go wrong:
46. Now we have come to the moment that we call “twisting the mustache” at home. This is calligraphy in its purest form - we draw various stems with a thin brush with long elastic hair. It is necessary to ensure that the paint is sufficiently liquid (add water) and that each stem is carried out in one stroke. the thickness changes with the pressure of the brush:
47. Mustaches spin very fast (the camera does not have time):
48. Don't forget about the cores of your flowers:
49. With your old short tassel, you can add some green to the core:
50. Now take a simple pencil and put black dots with black acrylic paint:
51. Carefully inspect your work and correct the flaws - add dark green, twist the mustache (with the help of the "whiskers" you can correct design flaws!):
52. Take your old, short-cut brush, wash it, and with white paint, apply white dots, trying to keep the shape (something like lilac):
53. You can say that your training sample is finished:
After such lessons, you can paint the walls at home, at least in the nursery, because the child will not point out your mistakes in drawing
The end of May is the time when nature has already come to life after a long winter sleep and is now beginning to bloom, illuminating the world with colors. At this time, there are many sources of inspiration everywhere, you need to capture everything that your eyes see. Below you will learn how to display the world as you see it in watercolor with all the accuracy and brightness of shades. We will study on such a bouquet of tulips, which can be found in spring in almost any home. 
You can take other flowers that you like. The main thing is that the bouquet should be lively and "juicy". Always draw from nature - so you can fully see even the smallest changes in shades. From this lesson, take the principle of work into the piggy bank of your knowledge in order to understand how to create similar images in the future.
The scheme of our work will be divided into several stages:
sketch
Chiaroscuro
watercolor test
The drawing itself
The sketch is very important when painting with watercolor, because it is on it that the whole image is based. In our example, watercolor paper was used, which allows you to "play" with shades, due to the fact that paints take longer to dry and you can mix several different colors in an interesting way. Learn the simple technique of drawing flowers with a pencil:
We mark on paper the position of all the flowers from the bouquet. We try to accurately convey at least general form each of them. We keep the proportions due to the sighting method. To do this, take a pencil, put it horizontally on an outstretched hand and measure the width of each bud. After that, put the pencil vertically and see how many times the width is included in the length. Thus, the size of the buds will be preserved, the drawing will become realistic. Our flowers are still circles and ovals - we do not focus on the details. 
Carefully examine the flowers, count the petals, look at the structure of the cups. AT this case we have 4 red-orange tulips with folds in the middle of smooth petals and 1 yellow with a fringe around the edges. On red buds, the petals are arranged in one layer, overlapping each other in a circle, on yellow they bloom in two rows. 
We begin to draw the details from the "bones", we build the petals themselves around them. These buds look like hexagons. It will depend on the “guides” in which direction this or that leaf will bend. All our tulips are different, because we draw each one individually. Remember that depending on the time of day and temperature, the flowers can change their shape, so do not drag out the hover sketch for several hours. The flowering phase is also important, so you need to be able to display it correctly. Our bouquet has three buds that are in different phases very well. 
We display the lower yellow tulip open so that not only the petals are visible, but also the inner part with stamens. 
It remains to draw the leaves. For the entire time of work, do not overdo it with the eraser, so that in the future the watercolor does not roll down in the places of “rubbing”. 
You can start applying paint right away, but we recommend that you first make two small sketches on small pieces of paper. The first will display how the shadow falls - it will be easier for us to distribute properly paint: 
Next, using watercolors, we determine which colors are suitable for our large creation, and which ones can be immediately rejected. To do this, we draw something like this picture, without accuracy and additional details: 
In a color sketch, it is important to see how the background will look, whether it should be made brighter or darker. We determine the level of darkening on the shadow sides and the brightness of the flowers themselves. After this work, you can safely take watercolor paper and start drawing. It is better to choose imported cotton paper, not artificially bleached. It has a grayish tint, compared to a regular leaf. On white wallpaper, however, it will not look the best, so it is preferable to choose a different background for your masterpiece.
Distinctive features of watercolor paper in its heterogeneity and speed of moisture drying. Until one layer is dry, you can mix a few more tones, which creates volume. For example, fill the petal with a yellow-green mixture and carefully drip scarlet on top and dark green paint on the bottom, slightly shade it. 
We also fill each petal on the flowers, shade, distribute the shadow. The heterogeneity of tones will only emphasize the realism of the picture. 
The single-layer technique makes the drawing lively and bright. Look at an unopened bud - you will agree that such a huge number of shades can only be created by nature and ... we: 
While the buds are drying, write one leaf. Mixing green tones and experimenting with brightness. Before the watercolor is dry, you may notice this beautiful sheen: 
Now we move on to the central orange-red flower. Fill with a background color - in this case, rich yellow, then draw red streaks, mix colors to create overflows. 
Emphasize the shadow with right side light cold shades. Fill the stem with light green paint, and draw a dark shadow with a thin brush. 
We start pouring the second sheet from the outside, then move on to the darker inside. For convenience, sections can be divided into as many fragments as you like. 
Let's start working on the left blooming tulip. The most jewelry work - the middle, we leave in the end. 
As you work, your table might look something like this: 
It is important to decide where which petal is in order to individualize each fragment. Pay attention to where the edge is lighter and where it has a darkening. 
We visually enliven our flower with stamens. Yes, in nature they are black, but we depict them with umber. Each stamen belongs to its own petal, and the pistil in the middle complements the composition - we draw it especially carefully, shade it, but act carefully so as not to get a stain. 
Next in line is the most beautiful and catchy - a yellow flower. We highlight the core of the bottom row with dark shades - this is not a shadow, but part of the petal, so we express it especially carefully and accurately. We shade the orange paint around the edges so as to emphasize the whole spectrum of colors on a single leaf. 
We make the second row darker, add a little more reddish warm shades. 
Carefully select the core: 
Now it's up to the leaves. You need to depict them as accurately as possible. We pay attention to the incident light, emphasize the reflections on glossy surfaces with neat lines. We shade the resulting parts and combine different colors. 
Now a few tips summing up our big master class:
More samples. Use a variety of papers, brushes, color combinations, and paint brands to find the ones you will always use in the future.
Whatever the paper, it is you who create on it, therefore it depends only on you and your mood how original and bright your work will turn out.
We always start drawing flowers with sketches. We generalize them to simple contours, and inside geometric shapes already entering the details.
We carefully look at each flower individually. The task of the artist is to study the object of his inspiration, to notice the smallest game light and natural play of tones.
Be sure to make shadow and watercolor sketches in order to correctly “scatter” the shadow over the future “clean-up”, and also not to make a mistake with the tones.
We focus our attention on the structure of the objects that we draw. It is the "anatomical" details that often become the basis of the design, like the skeleton of our petals, for example.
Do not be afraid of heterogeneity and spots - imperfections are often a sign of realism, and absolute symmetry and uniform tone eliminate liveliness in the drawing.
From the photographer of this stunning piece of art: I tried to make the lesson as complete as possible in terms of the number of photos - in fact, the painting process is very fast and more like calligraphy than painting - the stroke is long and the thickness of the stroke is varied by brush pressure.
In any case, Mila paints much faster than I photograph. And better...
1. The brushes that we will need to work with and a pencil practice sketch, on which we will test the consistency of the paint (not thick, but not liquid) to finish any element with one stroke:
2. We collect two colors of paint on the brush as follows:
3. We do a simple exercise - we draw a straight line as far as possible - this will give you the opportunity to understand what consistency the paint should be for a long enough stroke:
4. We do the following exercise - a small arc: a straight black line shows the beginning of the stroke, the arrow shows the direction:
5. Next exercise. Exactly the same arc, only curved in the opposite direction. Having done two exercises together, we get the simplest element - a rose:
6. On a wider brush, we collect two other colors and perform the first exercise - we draw a straight line:
7. We take our sheet of drawing paper with a prepared graphic design and draw wave-like strokes (from two to four waves) - they form large individual petals:
8. Turning the sheet, we continue to apply stroke after stroke. Do not lift your hand while performing one stroke:
9. In the same way, smaller inner petals are created. Don't be afraid to work on wet paint:
10. Trim the bottom edge if yours is not very even:
11. And another trick: you can dip the edge of the brush on which you have white in cream (or vice versa, cream in white) - in this way one stroke will give you three colors at once ... You can do more:
12. Make the next flower round, consisting of four or five petals. Pay attention to how white is mixed with cream in one stroke:
13. In the same way, create inner petals with wave-like strokes:
14. Try to finish your last inner stroke in such a way that there is no blank paper left in the center, and the stroke is even at the edge:
15. Here is what you should get:
16. Using a natural washcloth cut in the shape of a ball, apply a background with various shades of green (this is definitely not Zhostovo):
17. Draw the overall design with a pencil. If you don't have special tools (like a compass) don't get upset:
18. If you are satisfied with the consistency of the paint during the training exercise, start painting:
19. In the middle you can poke a cheap, short-cut brush, applying yellow and white:
20. On a small brush for greens, you can also type two shades at once:
21. The thickness of the stroke should be varied by pressing the brush (as in calligraphic works) and each element should be done with one stroke:
22. Draw a green bud (?) to each rose from below:
23. Start at the bottom and finish at the top, achieving a very sharp finish, gently lifting your hand with a brush from a sheet of paper:
24. The buds should not be the same shape as the green elements:
25. Now a little about the leaves: the leaves are made in the same way as the flower petals, only the wave-like movements of the brush are more frequent:
26. Type white and green on the brush:
27. Try to make such a wave-like movement, making sure that the brush does not come off the paper:
28. When you finish the top of the sheet, the brush should turn as follows to form a point:
29. You can add pink-lilac to white:
30. Your finished standard sheet:
31. With the same (wide) brush, draw a stem - the base of the leaf:
32. If all your papers are the same, the work may look boring:
33. You can finish the second side as usual:
34. Draw a leaf stalk with a wide brush:
35. And one more variety, the most difficult to perform:
36. Having practiced on our draft, let's continue working on our project:
37. We fill in our work with leaflets. In order to make the work more fun, we use different shades of green, different leaf shapes and different design of the position of the leaves on the plane - with a little practice, you will learn! The best tutorial is photographs of designs that someone has already made. Once you master the general principles, you can create your own designs with ease:
38. Do not be afraid to call your leaves on already drawn flowers! Such overlaps will only enrich your design:
39. Don't be afraid to cover up fresh paint on freshly painted leaves:
40. Change the shape and arrangement of the leaves, do not forget:
41. Do not forget about the cuttings - they will help you fix the middle of the leaves:
42. Adding a new color to our palette. if the paint is thick, drop some water and use an old brush to stir exactly the place where you dripped:
43. After all the work done, the new flower will seem like a joke to you! Please note that good quality acrylic paints cover any color in one go:
44. Let's continue our painting, armed with a new element:
45. Take an old brush, cut it short and poke yellow and white into the middle of the flowers, you can't go wrong:
46. Now we have come to the moment that we call “twisting the mustache” at home. This is calligraphy in its purest form - we draw various stems with a thin brush with long elastic hair. It is necessary to ensure that the paint is sufficiently liquid (add water) and that each stem is carried out in one stroke. the thickness changes with the pressure of the brush:
47. Mustaches spin very fast (the camera does not have time):
48. Don't forget about the cores of your flowers:
49. With your old short tassel, you can add some green to the core:
50. Now take a simple pencil and put black dots with black acrylic paint:
51. Carefully inspect your work and correct the flaws - add dark green, twist the mustache (with the help of the "whiskers" you can correct design flaws!):
52. Take your old, short-cut brush, wash it, and with white paint, apply white dots, trying to keep the shape (something like lilac):
53. You can say that your training sample is finished:
After such lessons, you can paint the walls at home, at least in the nursery, because the child will not point out your mistakes in drawing
Artists at all times loved to depict flowers. We will try to write this beautiful geranium in a pot acrylic paints .
For a novice artist, this still life may seem very complicated, in fact, the flowers and leaves are painted here with light strokes.
Earthy colors- raw and burnt sienna - are best suited for writing ceramics, including a clay pot. Geranium leaves can be rendered in various shades of green, using both pure green paint and mixed in various proportions with yellow paint or whitewash. The green in this painting should be very intense to enhance the contrast of the green against the red geranium petals. Red and green, as you already know, are complementary colors, their combination will help create the focal point of our picture.
Advantages of acrylic paints
Acrylic paints are ideal for flower still lifes. They, as we have already said, dry quickly, so they are easy to apply on the canvas in thick layers. In today's lesson, you will learn how to emphasize the texture of a particular surface using various strokes.
For the drawing lesson you will need
Stretched on a tablet
size 40×30 cm not very rough canvas
Pencil 2B
Brushes: flat #12, flat round tip #4, round #8
11 acrylic paints: cadmium red, cadmium yellow, dark green, light olive, cobalt blue, ultramarine, burnt sienna, raw sienna, burnt umber, yellow ocher, titanium white
1 Preparing the canvas for work and making a sketch
Take some raw sienna on a flat brush, dip the tip of the brush in water to thin the paint, and coat stretched canvas a layer of pale brown primer. When the primer dries, draw a sketch of the future still life with a pencil. Flowers should be outlined in a simplified way, in the form of a stem with a circle at the end.
Color selection
Before you make a stroke on the canvas, you should first put on the palette all the paints that you intend to use during work. Thanks to this, you can imagine how the adjacent colors will be combined in the picture. Try to place the paint squeezed out drop by drop in a certain order: for example, a horizontal row - warm colors, vertical row - cold. But remember, acrylic paints dry quickly. Therefore, use a special palette, the surface of which is covered with a layer of blotting paper. When you're done, you simply remove the blotting paper from the palette and throw it away, and next time cover the palette with new blotting paper.
2 Lightening up the background
Add some white to raw sienna and cover with this light paint the section of the wall that is most brightly lit is to the right of the geranium pot. Rinse the brush and apply a spot of yellow ocher to the part of the picture where the flowers will be located. Apply paint in smooth strokes.
3 We write a shaded section of the wall
Without rinsing the brush, dip it in the burnt umber. Write with this mixture a shadow in the left upper corner paintings. Now dip the tip of the brush in ultramarine. Write in this dark tone the left side of the pot.
4 Making a highlight
Rinse your brush. Mix raw sienna with titanium white. Use this mixture to mark a bright spot - a highlight - on a clay pot.
5 Writing the background
Mix more raw sienna, titanium white on the palette and add a drop of cobalt blue and cadmium red. Paint in this brownish-gray tone the lower part of the background (tabletop) to the left of the pot, gradually mixing in the white as you move towards the bottom edge of the canvas. Draw a line separating the table from the wall with the same paint. Mix ultramarine with cadmium red and paint the shadow cast from the pot.
6 Moving on to the clay pot
Rinse your brush. Mix burnt sienna with a little yellow ocher and a dash of titanium white. Write the center and top rim of the clay pot.
7 We continue to write a pot
Dip the brush in Burnt Sienna and Burnt Umber. Use this mixture to paint the left side of the pot and thin shadows along the rim and bottom edge of the pot. Make a smooth transition of colors. Dip the brush in white and lighten the right side of the pot.
At the next stage of work, we will write the leaves. We use an intense green color that will be the background for the rest of the shades. Try to keep the leaves located in the shade not too dark.
self-expression
In the depicted still life, the same pot of geraniums is painted much softer, although the coloring of the picture is saturated. The artist applied acrylic paints to the stretched canvas using a regular sponge, which can be bought at any hardware store. If you want to repeat after him. pick up a sponge and tear it into pieces - with them you will apply paint to the canvas. You can use a sharp sponge tap to write the flower stems.
If you are mixing acrylic paints on a special palette that is covered with a layer of blotting paper, remember that sooner or later they will dry out anyway.
8 We write leaves
Mix dark green paint with a touch of ultramarine and a touch of burnt umber. Make dabs of this mixture over and around the pot. Without rinsing the brush, dip its tip into yellow paint to get a lighter green tone. Carefully cover the spots of dark green paint with wide strokes of a light green tone. Let the paints dry.
9 Emphasizing details
Now take brush number 4. Dip it in dark green paint, and then in titanium white and cadmium yellow. Apply specks of the resulting mixture to the central part of individual leaves. Write some new leaves. Dip the brush again in titanium white and paint on the newly added leaves.
10 Writing flower stems
Rinse brush number 4. Type dark green paint directly from the tube and draw thin lines with the tip of the brush - geranium stalks.
11 We finish writing the pot
Add a couple more green leaves around the pot. Rinse your brush. Now with a mixture of Cadmium Red, Burnt Sienna and Ultramarine, deepen the shadow to his left. Rinse the brush again. Mix burnt sienna with titanium white and paint a curved flower pot handle.
12 We write flowers
Rinse brush #4, Mix cadmium red with burnt umber, Pass each petal in its own light stroke. Rinse your brush. Mix red cadmium with a drop of yellow cadmium. Write brightly lit petals with this mixture. Just don't get carried away. It will be enough to make a few strokes.
How to keep brushes in good condition
When you wash the brush in a jar of water, you will certainly want to wipe the hairs on its edge. But from this, your brush will soon become unusable - the hairs will come out. To avoid this, try to take a larger jar and change the water in it as often as possible. When it's time to rinse your brush, dip it in water, have a good chat, and then just shake off the excess water.
13 Highlighting the details
Take a round brush number 8. Apply small strokes of red cadmium to the petals. Rinse the brush, mix titanium white with a dash of burnt sienna. Emphasize the curved handle of the pot with this mixture.
If you wish, you can continue to work on the picture. Try to apply strokes of various thicknesses that will help you highlight the texture of the flower pot, leaves, petals.
14 We note the light glare on the leaves
Rinse your brush. Mix cobalt blue, dark green paint and titanium white, write highlights on the leaves.
15 Making the final touches
Rinse the brush, mix titanium white, cadmium yellow and light olive paint. Mark small specks of light reflections on the greenery, which will give your picture an impressionistic tint. Write a dark green leaf on the right side of the pot.
Step-by-step lesson with step-by-step acrylic paints - result
A Optimum size
The flower pot is depicted large enough to impress the viewer, but at the same time it does not fill the entire space of the picture.
B Spotted surface
In a neutral background
Neutral background highlights bright colors with which flowers and greenery are written.
From the article you will learn how to paint flowers with gouache, create picturesque rural and mountain landscapes. At the end given helpful tips, which will help to facilitate the work and perform it as accurately as possible.
The content of the article:
It's nice to look at the paintings created by the artists. Many people like to admire the canvases, mentally transport themselves to where the plot takes place. But not everyone knows that if you wish, you can become a painter and create canvases for yourself, your family, and give them to friends. If you like this kind of creativity, it will be possible to transfer stories to canvas, then this activity can be profitable if you sell paintings. Therefore, let's draw, and perhaps this activity will captivate and enjoy it so much that it will become your favorite hobby and even a source of income.
How to draw flowers with gouache
This is one of the most effective types of paint. The paintings made in this technique look voluminous and look great. Sometimes a pencil sketch is made first, then the contours are painted over - first dark elements are made, then lighter ones.
If you need to draw a landscape in which the sky occupies most of it, then its background is written using the fill method, and then the details are drawn.
If you want to reproduce these poppies on canvas, start the drawing by creating a background. For work you will need:
- gouache;
- palette;
- paper for watercolor or gouache;
- brushes;
- rag;
- a jar of water.
So, before depicting flowers with gouache, starting from the upper right corner, retouch a sheet of paper with direct diagonal movements, not reaching the bottom. Here, paint it with light green paint.
Now mix in the palette green and yellow colors, draw a few light blades of grass in the foreground of the canvas. Add yellow highlights. Watch the video at the end of the article, which shows you step by step how to draw gouache flowers.
Now, in the palette cell, mix white paint with a small amount of emerald and add some light highlights on the canvas.
Now make a light pink paint, adding a little white to the red, and with a thin brush, apply highlights to the flowers.
For watercolor painting, you can use different brushes, each of them has its own number. The thicker the brush, the higher the number. Volumetric wide brushes are used to draw the background, thin ones are used to depict small details.
Next, you need to mix green and white paint to paint the buds and petals. Now draw the core of the poppy in black. Add some green to the white paint and paint highlights on the buds and stems.
Here's how to draw flowers in gouache to make them look as realistic as possible. With the help of this paint, picturesque paintings are also created.
How easy it is to draw a winter landscape with gouache
For beginners, such a drawing should not cause difficulties, since it is very easy to create.
For work, take:
- a set of artistic gouache, consisting of 12 colors;
- A 3 format sheet;
- 2 flat boar bristle brushes No. 9 and 18;
- palette;
- a jar of water.
A palette knife is used to apply thick paint to the canvas, as well as to mix and clean the palette. With it, the paint is applied with relief or even strokes.
This is the tool you will need to draw the mountains. If you do not have a palette knife, then replace it with a small dull knife. You can adapt the most unusual items, for example, use a slightly sharpened ice cream stick, make a palette knife from an old business card holder.
Mix purple, blue and white paint. From right to left diagonally, apply several confident strokes on the canvas. The paint in this place should lie in a thick layer. Let it dry and apply over the white. Then continue to paint the landscape with gouache.
Now mix dark green and purple and with the resulting paint on the left side of the canvas, draw spruces. To do this, make horizontal strokes with a large flat brush, at the bottom they should be longer than at the top. Draw the tops of the trees.
Next, with the help of whitewash, make them snowy. Also draw white clouds in the background. On the right, you can depict another Christmas tree. At the bottom along the line of mountains, draw the outlines of the forest and create snowdrifts in the foreground with white paint. She will also help to draw them in the center of the landscape.
Here's how to paint with gouache so that you get such a picturesque canvas. If you like the theme of mountains, you can create some more landscapes by first doing a pencil sketch.
How to draw a landscape step by step
If you have never done this before, then you can enlarge the presented pencil drawing, attach a sheet of paper to it and simply redraw it.
Here we see all the necessary outlines:
- clouds;
- vegetation foreground;
- bushes.
Clouds draw with whitewash. Apply a few strokes of the same light paint so that white highlights appear in the sky.
You will need a brown tone for the mountains, make some green strokes here to paint the vegetation.
Using the same paint, depict a meadow. Dark green strokes will fall on the canvas in the form of bushes. The same paint will help draw the stems of plants, you will depict flowers with yellow.
How to draw nature in gouache
We will also start creating nature with a pencil sketch. To simplify the task, also attach a paper sheet to the screen and redraw. Now paint in green the forest in the center and on the left in the background. While this paint dries a little, apply blue to the sky and the flowing river.
Apply a light green tone to the lower part of the forest. Now let's work with yellow paint. With this tone, gild the tops of the trees and the lower part of the forest on the left.
Cover some trees with dark green paint, as shown in the photo. When it dries, apply a yellow, light green tone to make the painted trees more realistic.
Paint the coastal stones dark purple, then apply gray and crimson tones here. Add small details to the trees, and the gouache painting, depicted in stages, is ready.
You can beautifully draw a landscape by watching the video. Step by step lesson help you create a different picture.
Rural landscape in gouache
Here is what you get as a result of the work. But first you need to work a little. Paint the sky with blue, white and burgundy paint. Mix it right on the sheet by adding water.
While this part of the drawing dries, wash the brush. She needs to draw the trees located in the background and the ground. Draw a tree trunk with dark brown paint, and twigs with a thin brush.
But what is a rural landscape without rural houses? Draw them in the background using orange, black and brown.
You will create the foliage next interesting method. Take a brush with round bristles, dip it in yellow, burgundy, green colors and, tapping on the paper, draw the foliage.
Draw the flowers in the same way, but with the help of paint of red, yellow, pink colors.
You've got a colorful rustic landscape that will decorate the wall in the room or will be the right gift. You have learned how to paint with gouache. In conclusion, check out some useful tips to help you do it correctly and accurately.
When using gouache, follow these tips:
- Gouache is sold in tubes and small jars. Get it in the package that you like best.
- It is not necessary to buy many flowers at once. The main thing is to purchase the necessary ones: white, blue, black, yellow, red, brown. Some others you can create by mixing these paints.
- Before applying colors to the canvas, even if you don't mix gouache, apply it to the palette first. So you will not be mistaken in color and you can make paints of the desired density by adding the required amount of water.
- If gouache cracks, add a little gum arabic to it and stir well.
- Before applying additional layers of paint on top of the first or lower ones, wait until they dry.
- Since gouache is water-based, when you're done, the paint will dry, then varnish it. It is better to work each color separately, rinsing the brush well, which will absorb the paint.
After learning useful tips, reading about how to paint flowers, landscapes with gouache, you can create amazing pictures with this paint and enjoy spending your leisure time doing an interesting activity.
