We paint autumn with colors step by step. Autumn landscape in watercolor plein air

We have selected for you 3 simple, but completely different in their technique, images of autumn nature. Choose the one you like.

Autumn landscape in watercolor using monotype technique

The traditional autumn landscape - a colorful forest on the shore of a pond, reflected in the mirror of the water - can be painted using an original and easy-to-use technique.

You will need:

• watercolor paints (preferably honey-based);
• water;
• natural brush (squirrel) - recommended size 2.5;
• a sheet of thick paper for painting with watercolors;
• palette for mixing paints.

Technique for drawing an autumn landscape step by step:

Apply a thin layer of water to the paper using a brush. Leave the sheet to dry.

Draw a horizon line. Determine where the sky will be in the drawing by allocating more space for it than for objects located on the ground. Paint the sky a soft blue by applying paint from bottom to top, working from the horizon line.

Draw water. To do this, choose a more saturated shade of blue and apply it from top to bottom from the horizon line. When painting the water surface, move the brush horizontally. Leave the sheet to dry - the paint should dry completely!

Complete the sky. Load your brush with yellow color and draw a stripe across the sky, approximately in its central part. Closer to the horizon line, draw exactly the same crimson stripe. These lines depict the reflections of the sun.

Place a sufficient amount of white paint on the brush and dilute it a little with water. Draw several oblique stripes across the sky and blend them in the same direction. These will be clouds.

Fill your brush with water and blur the crimson and yellow stripes by moving the brush horizontally.

Dip your brush into brown paint and paint a wide stripe along the horizon line. This will be a forest located in the distance. Wait for the paint to dry completely.

Using orange paint, draw silhouettes of trees that will be located in the foreground - directly on the shore. You can do this not only with a brush, but also directly with the help of leaf prints.

Fold the sheet in half, bending it from top to bottom. Run your hand over the paper and unfold the drawing. You have imprinted the reflection of the trees in the opening mirror.

Behind the trees, depict the sun, silhouettes of birds flying across the sky. Wait for the drawing to dry

Load your brush with yellow paint and paint silhouettes of trees at the top of the sheet. Fold the drawing in half again, run your hand over it and unfold it.

At the top of the landscape, paint the trees with orange and yellow and the grass with yellow paint.

Draw the trunks and branches of the trees.

Autumn drawing using monotype technique is ready!

Autumn landscape in pencil

With the help of a pencil, it is best to depict late autumn, when there is practically no foliage on the trees, the weather is gloomy, and the artist is in a slightly sad mood. We invite you to depict two thin autumn trees bending under gusts of cold autumn wind on the bank of a river.

Autumn landscape technique step by step:

Draw straight horizons and perspectives

Draw tree trunks in the foreground

Draw the left and right banks of the river

To prevent the trees from “hanging in the air”, draw a small mound at their foot, covered with dry and sparse grass.

Draw in detail the silhouettes of both trees - rhizomes, trunks, branches

Draw fallen leaves on the ground and draw a few remaining leaves on the tree branches. Draw the reeds along the banks of the river.

Using horizontal lines, depict the flow of the river.

Cover the hill on which the trees grow with shading of varying intensity.

Use the same shading to depict the silhouette of a forest on the far bank of the river.

Draw clouds in the sky and silhouettes of birds flying to warmer regions.

Draw a thin autumn cobweb among the tree branches.

Use an eraser to add highlights to the landscape to give it an even cooler feel.

Creating an autumn landscape using natural materials

Children will certainly enjoy working on this landscape, because the original technique involves the use of real autumn leaves.

You will need:

• watercolor paints;
• gouache;
• simple pencil;
• thick paper for drawing watercolors;
• natural brushes (pony, squirrel No. 2.6);
• masking tape;
• autumn leaves of various shapes.

Progress:

Draw a horizon line with a simple pencil

Tear the paper tape into pieces of arbitrary shape and stick them above the horizon line - these will be clouds floating across the sky

Draw the horizon line with yellow watercolors. When depicting the horizon, add more water to the brush so that the line is blurred.

Use a rich yellow color to paint the sky, moving the brush from left to right.

Gradually introduce greenish shades into the general background of the sky. Don't forget to put plenty of water on your brush.

Emphasize the horizon line with dark shades of blue and green. This way you will depict a forest located in the distance.

Paint over the foreground of the landscape with blurry spots of various shades of yellow and green.

Peel off the paper tape above the horizon line.

Prepare autumn leaves that you will use to draw trees in the distance.

Cover the leaves with orange, yellow or brown gouache.

Attach the leaves to the background of the drawing, behind the horizon line. Make prints.

In the same way, print the outlines of the leaves in the foreground of the landscape. For the background, choose leaves of a different shape and use more saturated shades of gouache.

Using a thin brush, draw the trunks and branches of the trees located in the foreground.

The original autumn landscape is ready.

Have a creative autumn!

In this lesson we will look at how to beautifully draw a golden autumn, autumn landscape in gouache step by step. You will get a very beautiful result.

This composition uses the rules of frontal perspective described in this article. First, you need to draw a background on a piece of paper. For it I used white, blue and black paint. You can add other shades, a little pink, pale green. The shades should be pale, just stand out a little from the background.

For the distant massif of park trees we will need a hard brush and palette. On the palette you need to mix blue, white and very little black paint. I mixed several options - one made it more gray, another with blue, and in the third I added a little ocher.

Using a hard brush, I painted the trees without detail.

Now, remembering the frontal perspective, let's draw the alley itself, going into the distance. On plots of land we draw trees growing along the road. Notice that the tree trunks that are further away appear higher on the paper, thinner, and less saturated. I painted the trunks by mixing blue, white and black paint. The trees ahead should be brighter.

To draw the foliage, we will use the same hard brush that we used to paint the distant trees. You need to take the paint on an almost dry brush and try it on another paper first.

Let's draw leaves that have not yet fallen off on all the trees.

Then use orange, red and brown paint to emphasize the volume of the foliage. We will place fallen leaves on the road. All we have to do is paint the lawns with yellow grass and fallen leaves. Using the same hard brush, we will apply strokes of yellow and orange paint to the road, indicating the leaves that have fallen from the trees in the park.

Every child draws the drawing “Autumn” at least once in their life - in kindergarten or school this topic is often present in the lessons of fine arts, the surrounding world and literary reading.

Few adults can remain indifferent to the brightness and variety of autumn colors, and many of them want to show this palette to children by conducting a master class with step-by-step photos or step-by-step construction of a schematic drawing on a chalkboard.

Before you draw an autumn landscape, you need to select materials that will be used as the basis for the work. We suggest considering the option of a drawing made using watercolors and colored pencils on regular, but fairly thick, white paper (it is best to use sheets for watercolors or sketches).

Using a simple pencil, as usual, we make a sketch of the drawing - a sketch. Our composition will consist of several trees and a small village house. What makes it interesting is the presence of a hill, in the center of which we plant the main thing. Due to the hill, the horizon line, foreground and background look different.

Filling the autumn sky with color. Using watercolor pouring technique. This technique is used in cases where you need to get an uneven solid background.

Using the same method, we decorate the crown of the trees in the background. They will turn out blurry and will complement the main details of the picture.

Watercolor fill - background

In the same way, fill the grass and the bush line that is in the background with color. We make the bush darker than the grass. We highlight the tree near the house with a lighter tone of paint, thereby putting emphasis on the house. And it begins to attract attention, although it is located on one of the lines farther from the edge.

Watercolor Fill - Foreground

We work on large tree trunks, giving them volume using the play of light and shadow: we make one side of the trunk darker than the other. We designate the shadow that the trees and the house cast on the grass, and fill the path with color.

Watercolor painting - step 1

We highlight the bushes in the background with burgundy and red. We emphasize the descent in the central part of the picture with a dark color. We emphasize the relief of the tree trunk in the foreground, highlighting its right side with a darker color.

Watercolor painting - step 2

We draw bushes around the house and fill its windows with color. We emphasize the play of color in the treetops on the right side of the picture, using warm autumn colors. We paint the foreground of the picture with the same warm colors.

Watercolor painting - step 3

We dry the picture well, after which we begin to work out the details with colored pencils: foliage, shrubs located in the distance. Please note that the closer to the edge of the picture the object is located, the brighter its details should be. The tree in the center - a key element of the landscape - should be as expressive as possible and worked out to the smallest detail. We draw birds flying away.

This painting will decorate any office or room.

We learned how to draw using watercolors and colored pencils, distributing landscape elements along spaced lines.

Autumn drawing (ideas with photos)

A very beautiful drawing with autumn leaves is obtained using mixed painting techniques. With a marker we draw the outlines of the leaves and patterns on them. We paint the leaves ourselves with delicate shades of watercolor.

Using mixed painting techniques (marker + watercolor) you can draw a picture of autumn and a girl.

In this autumn drawing, some of the details are drawn over the paint with a pencil. The halftone effect for the sky and field can be achieved by using different pressures of wax crayons or applying watercolors to damp paper. Only then a watercolor drawing is applied to the dried background.

Autumn drawing “Birches”.

Autumn drawing “Birch trees”

Children's drawing "Autumn with clouds."

Children's drawing “Autumn with clouds”

Drawing “Autumn with houses.”

Look at the video on how to draw an autumn landscape with a child 6-9 years old:

How to draw golden autumn (for adults):

Landscape in gouache “Autumn”:

Another popular autumn theme for drawing is fruit. Watch the video on how to draw an apple, orange, cherry and watermelon:

You can not only draw an autumn apple tree, but also decorate it in the form of a large beautiful applique:

Templates and coloring pages for drawing in autumn

Autumn leaf – 1

How to draw autumn reviews:

"Very beautiful! I would like an early autumn, sunny, with fruits”)) (Dasha)

"Beautiful autumn"!

Art supplies:

• Watercolor: Cerulean Blue, Cobalt Blue, French Ultramarine, Lemon Yellow, Light Red, Raw Sienna, Neutral Tint , Herbal greens (Sap Green).
• Core brushes: No. 4, round No. 8, round No. 6
• Unstretched Bockingford watercolor paper 425 g/cm2 (200 lb)

Thanks to its transparency, watercolor is ideal for conveying the effects of light, including the smallest color and tonal nuances inherent in the subject. However, watercolor is not only paint, but also an entire discipline. Careful planning must be done before applying washes to keep their color as pure as possible.

Control of the watercolor is the key to success. Soft brushes, such as core brushes, allow you to layer paint without damaging the underlying layer of paint. Paintings with unnecessary brushstrokes using too thick layers of pigment or multi-component color mixtures turn out dirty, cloudy, completely different from the transparent luminous washes that are the main asset of watercolor. Use paint wisely and your painting will be filled with sparkling light and life.

When starting to draw, you need to draw up a detailed plan, otherwise in the middle of the work you will want to change and invent something, which will inevitably lead to disappointment. Light must be depicted as it is, or altered for the benefit of composition or design.

If you decide to change the time of day, the properties of light, or the direction of light in a painting, a plan is essential to check that the changes you make will look the way you want.

To do this, you can make a quick thumbnail sketch in pencil or charcoal, or a more thorough sketch in watercolor.

This kind of planning will help you make sure that your idea will work before you devote several hours of intense work. For example, coming up with a new direction of light along with realistic cast shadows can be quite difficult, especially if the composition is multifaceted and has many angles, such as buildings or bumpy ground.

When you paint en plein air, the light usually changes its angle, direction and quality as you work. He may even disappear completely! In this case, preparation is everything. I often start with a lighting sketch, sketching the key shapes of the composition on construction paper with a 2B pencil.

Then I fill the shadowed areas and falling shadows with a single watercolor, such as Sap Green or Neutral Tint. Thus, while I draw from life, I always have a hint before my eyes. My task is to capture one moment, and not constantly reshape the entire composition.

I painted this picture from a photograph, trying to convey the contrast between light illuminated washes and dark shadow areas.

Step 1

I started by accurately transferring the shapes and lines onto the paper using a pencil. There was no need to draw the details, because they will gradually appear when working with paint. First I painted the foliage on the trees rather than the sky to achieve transparency in the colors.

If I had painted the entire sky blue first, it would have shown through the palest yellows and browns of the fall tones, making them appear muddy. By applying watercolors to white paper, I achieved the brightest and purest colors possible. Using a #8 round brush, I mixed Lemon Yellow, Burnt Sienna and a drop of Sap Green, and brushed the paper in loose strokes. I lightly sprayed the paint onto the trees to create broken shapes and show randomly growing leaves.

I covered the highlighted areas of the grass with a wash of Lemon Yellow and Grass Green. I painted the shaded areas with a mixture of French Ultramarine and Herbal Greens. At this stage, the contrast is not yet visible, so the colors appear flat due to the uniformity of tones.

Step 2

Continuing with the trees, I applied a second coat of the same shades and tones, which helped capture the shape and silhouette of the overhanging branches. I also painted in the illuminated areas of the buildings and walls with a #6 brush, using Raw Sienna and some Neutral Tint. I painted the barn door and porch with Cerulean Blue.

Then I added midtones to the distant part of the wall on the left using washes of Natural Sienna, Grass Green and Black Neutral. Finally, I warmed up the lawn by covering it with a pale blend of Natural Sienna and Burnt Sienna.

Step 3

After sitting above the trees for a little while longer, I filled the gaps in the sky with Cerulean Blue, first making sure that the trees were dry. This jewelery work required a very fine brush here and there, but the resulting clear colors of the foliage and sky were worth it.

I then started layering the midtones onto the buildings. It was at this moment that light began to appear in the picture, thanks to the contrast. Don't be afraid to go for dark colors - they will make the light shine. I covered the shadow side of the barn with a wash of Raw Sienna and Neutral Tint, adding pops of Cerulean Blue here and there. I used the same colors to paint the distant wall on the left. After that I painted the top of the illuminated near wall with Sienna Natural and Sap Green.

Step 4

Having finished with the highlights, I started working on the falling shadows. Using a #8 brush, I painted the grassy areas with a cool gray-green mixture of Sap Green, French Ultramarine and Neutral Tint, allowing the bottom wash to show through where the light showed through.

Once the wash was dry, I connected the shadowed areas by painting a shadow across the road using Cobalt Blue and Light Red. I painted the wall on the right with a rich wash of Raw Sienna, Sap Green and Neutral Tint, leaving the highlighted areas at the top untouched. I painted the shadows on the illuminated wall on the right with the same watercolor, after diluting it. After all the shadows had dried, I started drawing the pillars and tree branches.

Step 5

As a final step, I added fine details and dark spots with a size 6 brush. Often you have to resist the temptation to paint such details first, but rarely anything good comes of it - such areas look sloppy. After applying all the tones and shadows, it is much easier to understand what details the composition really needs. In this case, I deepened some of the tones and added thin branches, twigs and pebbles along the road. The combination of this and the previous stages connected the picture into a single whole.

Ananda, from Southern California, is sharing with you a super fun and quick way to paint fall trees in watercolor! Even if you've never drawn before, you can do it in 10 minutes !

By the way, these watercolor painting techniques are used by many wonderful artists who share these techniques on websites and in videos, so a big thank you to all of them!!

Materials and tools:

• watercolor paper: There are many types of watercolor paper, some are warm ivory, others are whiter, you can compare the first and last image to see the difference. You can use inexpensive watercolor paper.
• brushes: 2 is enough for this painting, I like to use the ones with a nice sharp tip for watercolor, they are great for washing up, and for fine details
• toothbrush: it's fun to use, you'll see!
• watercolor paints: These often come with a lid that can be used to mix the colors. The white plastic plate is also great for mixing colors
• dish - for water, for wetting and rinsing brushes

1: Apply the paint in a very thin layer of washed-out orange or yellow color.

Let the brush absorb a lot of water, then touch the tip with a little color, put one brush on the mixing surface, you will have a very dilute, wash color.

Draw the domes like cloud clusters and don't worry if you get confused, every tree is different and these shapes will help us with the next step.

2: Add deeper color

While the first thin layer is still wet, add more paint color to your brush and apply over the first layer. There is a second brush, dip it in water and apply it to the paper if it is too dry.

This technique is called painting on wet paper. It creates beautiful areas of color with soft edges.

I used some yellow, orange and olive. You can see how all these colors flow into each other as they all have soft edges.

Tips: How to Mix Natural Green

The finished green is too rich, by mixing it with a hint of yellow and red (opposite of green) it becomes the natural olive green on the left. There are endless variations of green, and that's a beauty, and you don't have to mix the same shade of green, every time!

3: paints, tree, trunk and branches

Mix a little brown and black to get a taupe color, start with a pale-wash (as in step 1) in the mold, then color in the deep colors as in step 2. If you're not sure, you can always wash, then later apply dark...

4: toothbrush

It's so fun! Wet your toothbrush, then dip it into the color, I started with yellow, then run your finger across the brush and spray, ending up in the area you want. After the yellow, repeat with the orange and olive green that was in step 2.

5: paint, spray brush

The toothbrush splatter gives us some lovely leaves and misty effects, we'll do a little more splatter in this step.

Let one brush soak in the paint a little, then press it onto the stick, or use the other end of the brush. repeat with different colors for a richer effect.

Finishing touches:You can create a plot of land with some thin streams of olive green and some sprinkling. Darken some of the branches if they need to... Hurray, done!

based on materials from the site www.apieceofrainbow.com/water-color-fall-tree-painting