A Scenery

Water Coloured Scenery Painting

Description of the Scenery: 

Here is a Scenery, as you can see. In this art, Apsara Water Colour Tubes were used and this painting was drawn on A3 sized Sketch Paper. Brushes of different sizes were used to maintain and fill the colours properly over the canvas.

Brushes of various sizes were used so that the bold ones were used to fill colours in larger parts while the thin ones were used for applying colours within thin parts and to construct detailing in the painting. (note that using bold/thick brushes for applying colours in thin parts can be a cause of unwanted overlapping and getting out of colours from a particular part).

You should also note that here, any type of pencil was not used at all, because the graphite material (often used in pencils) can be spread out on the canvas when the water gets in touch over it, and it can be a cause of unwanted blackishness during your activity. If you wanna use pencils before colouring, then you are advised to draw very lightly with the pencil (that can be easily erased by an eraser) and after completing the work of pencil, these pencil lines should be partially erased by eraser just before colouring that part (if possible, erase completely). The partial elimination of graphite lines completely depends on the artist how much dark/light he wants to keep the pencil lines before erasing them and starting colouring.

Interpretation of the items appearing in the scenery: 

In this scenery painting, part of a village has been demonstrated which contains mainly hut, a pond, a mountain range view and much more.

• The Hut: 

Here, the hut appearing can be considered as the main focused object. To draw the hut the combinations of yellow, red and neutral (black & white) colours were applied mainly. The black colour was used to draw windows and the main door of the hut. The tints and shades of yellow were applied for walls and red was applied to draw the roof. Here, you can look at the light shadows due to the edges of the roof appearing on the wall just above the main door of the hut. This shadow was drawn in a gradient from brownish yellow to regular yellow (dominant colour of the wall) from up to down.

• The Mountains:

The mountain range behind the hut had been drawn by using a gradient from blackish-grey to whitish-grey. To demonstrate the sunlight on the mountains, the white colour was applied on the side of the mountain just in front of the sun.

• The Sky: 

he main sky containing white clouds has been shown in the scenery. The main component used to draw it is sky-blue colour. The clouds have been demonstrated by waterless/concentric white colour using cotton earbuds instead of brushes (here earbuds are completely recommended but not mandatory, but for having a realistic effect of clouds, earbuds must be used).

• The Grassland:

Often in realistic sceneries, the main grassland can't be represented by using an individual colour like only green or only yellow. Obviously, here, the grassland has been demonstrated by a lot of combinations of primary or secondary colours, mainly the combinations of green colours. The areas containing shadow were showed darkishly and that of without shadows were showed something lightish. The used brush was lightly rubbed in every direction to spread the colours. Some bushes also were drawn here and there to avoid the emptiness of the land. Some of these bushes contain flowers, which give a finalize in their looks and make them attractive. The combinations of brown and yellow colours had been used in parts without grass and containing soil and rocks. The bank of the pond is also drawn in the gradient of white, yellow and brownish yellow colours.

• The Tree:

The only tree in this painting is behind the hut. It is coloured with some combinations and gradients of yellow-green, yellow-brown etc. Some points/marks of lighter colours (like yellow and white) also were spotted during finalization of the tree to have an embossing effect of the leaves. Branches were drawn brown and had been shaded with dark brown. The part, where the branch joins the group of leaves, had been shaded with darker colours to have a shadow effect.