Paint Autumn Leaves
The theme of this week is autumn. So today we begin with using autumn colours for a few leaves and fruit of a chestnut tree.
Be careful not to paint veins of leaves too strong, which is a very common mistake beginners make. You get brown tones by using all three primary colours with an emphasis on red and yellow rather than blue. |
Paint Paper Windmill
Use almost flat washes for today's paper windmills.
Where the paper windmill is bending, use a little bit of the complementary colour to darken instead of just black. For the yellow wheel use a bit of violet, for the blue a bit of orange and the pink a bit of green, to darker the areas. A colour when it gets darker must change the colour in itself and cannot stay the same by just making it darker. It looks unnatural and dead rather than lively. |
Paint Mountains
Today we do a simple landscape. Note that although the mid range mountains would have more detail in nature, looks also pleasing much more simplified.
The most common mistake I see made in landscape is that details are placed all over the painting making it often far too busy. The little bit of more detail in the foreground is enough. |
Paint an old Suitcase
Old things are always interesting, so an old suitcase makes a good subject to paint.
Browns are mixed by using all three primary colours with an emphasis on yellow and red. On the leather band that runs around the suitcase, you can clearly see how a little more red has been use, whereas on the suitcase itself it is a little more yellow. |
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