三年前我去徒步旅行在牛蛙湖,就在晚上在1月。我来到一个场景让我暂停片刻,坠入爱河。冬天的强烈的落日是铸造长长的影子从林子里的树木。就在问看来,三个乌鸦在远处开始乌鸦叫。我几乎想哭。叫我傻瓜自然,但西尼罗河几乎消除了所有的乌鸦在我的地区,我还没有听说美丽,”乌鸦叫,乌鸦叫,乌鸦叫”,在很长一段时间。他们是我最喜欢的鸟在世界第二。
所以这里我们走!让我们永远记住那一刻,通过画冬天的森林…
步骤1:我使用一个Pastelbord 16×20 &。这将是一个水彩和蜡笔画。用木炭,使一个简单的草图在你油漆。记得第三法则…伟大的成分发生在三分之二。注意我的地平线是来自高层的1/3。我跟踪将三分之鹿从左边。
这是我的参考照片。我把它放大和印刷在8×10。通知我有明确的塑料盖。这将帮助你大大!我是一个很混乱的画家和得到处都是垃圾(和我不在乎…这是过程的一部分),如果我没有保护图片将被摧毁。
步骤2:把你的板上下颠倒。这将帮助漆流下来与重力。喷雾天空,用清水洗净。使用水彩颜料,油漆鹅黄色在天空(记住我们是颠倒所以在底部)。接下来,用一个混合的深蓝色和烧棕土、油漆有些遥远的树木通过上下中风。
步骤3:当干燥,油漆有些远树使用深蓝色和大量的水所以混合物不是黑暗。油漆接近树用更深的混合物的深蓝色和烧棕土。
这是一个近距离的遥远的树木。我多么喜欢水彩画铺开的边缘代表粗糙的树皮…是的!毫不费力的画!
步骤4:当完全干燥,把你的板正面朝上。在这一步我只是躺下大的色彩块使用水彩。我只是使用钴蓝色、深蓝色和茜素在不同的混合物。你可能会想,“你疯了吗?这些颜色是如此的黑暗!“别担心,这将覆盖大部分由彩笔。
步骤5:与sap绿色,深蓝色,大红,黑色混合物和油漆最接近的树木。试图改变他们的大小。这花了我很长时间来完成在我早期的绘画。你的大脑只是想使树木,所以过了一段时间后,你会意识到他们都是一样的厚度。不!在本质上都是不同的。
步骤6:我们是用水彩画。当一切都干,开始绘画和彩笔。我使用一个中等一致的轨迹和紫色阴影和一个中等的蓝色的雪。
步骤7最后:使层与层的雪,使用三个不同的淡蓝色。我也用浅紫色的雪一样。在树干上我画点的深暗紫色和紫红色。你不能看到它,但它确实存在。我也画小点黄色的雪中反映落日。
不要担心如果你不油漆和彩笔。你可以使用相同的原则才能画出油。这都是一层又一层。
原文如下：
About three years ago I went hiking at Bull Frog Lake, right before evening in January. I came upon a scene that made me pause for a moment and fall in love. Winter’s intense setting sun was casting long shadows from the trees in the woods. Right on que it seemed, three crows in the distance began to caw. I almost wanted to cry. Call me a fool for nature, but West Nile almost eliminated all the crows in my area and I haven’t heard that beautiful, “CAW, CAW, CAW”, in a very long time. They are my 2nd favorite bird in the world.
So here we go! Let’s remember that moment forever by painting the winter woods…
Step 1: I am using an Ampersand Pastelbord 16×20. This is going to be a watercolor and pastel painting. With charcoal, make a simple sketch before you paint. Remember the 3rd’s rule…great composition happens in thirds. Notice my horizon line is 1/3 from the top. My deer tracks will be 1/3rd from the left.
Here is my reference photo. I had it enlarged and printed at 8×10. Notice I have a clear plastic cover on it. This will help you greatly! I am a very messy painter and get junk all over the place (and I don’t care…it’s part of the process), if I didn’t protect the picture it would have been destroyed.
Step 2: Turn your board upside down. This will help the paint flow down with gravity. Spray the sky with clean water. Using watercolor paints, paint Naples yellow in the sky (remember we are upside down so it is at the bottom). Next, with a mixture of ultramarine blue and burnt umber, paint some distant trees using up and down strokes.
Step 3: When dry, paint some far trees using ultramarine blue and a lot of water so the mixture is not dark. Paint closer trees using a darker mixture of ultramarine blue and burnt umber.
Here is a close-up of the distant trees. I love how the watercolors spread out at the edges representing rough bark…YES! Effortless painting!
Step 4: When completely dry, turn your board right side up. In this step I am just laying down big blocks of color using watercolors. I am only using cobalt blue, ultramarine blue and alizarin in different mixtures. You might be thinking, “Are you nuts? Those colors are so dark!” Don’t worry, most of this will be covered by pastels.
Step 5: With sap green, ultramarine blue, and alizarin crimson, make a black mixture and paint the closest trees. Try to vary their sizes. That took me a long time to accomplish in my early years of painting. Your brain just wants to make trees, so after a while you realise they are all the same thickness. NO! In nature they are all different.
Step 6: We are done with watercolors. When everything is dry, start painting with pastels. I used a medium Unison purple for the tracks and shadows and a medium blue for snow.
Step 7 Final: Make layers and layers of snow, using three different light blues. I also used light purple for the snow as well. On the tree trunks I painted spots of deep dark purple and fuchsia. You can’t really see it, but it is there. I also painted tiny spots of yellow in the snow to reflect the setting sun.
Don’t worry if you do not paint with pastels. You can use the same principles to paint with oils. It’s all about layer upon layer.
