How to draw a beautiful summer nature landscape with pencil and paints step by step for beginners? How to draw an easy summer landscape with a pencil for beginners? Drawing a summer landscape in watercolors Drawing summer landscapes in watercolors.

It’s easy to paint a beautiful sky by the sea at sunset with watercolors! Follow our advice step by step, and then you will create your own piece!

What you will need:
a sheet of watercolor paper;
HB or 2B pencil;
eraser;
palette for mixing watercolors;
container with water;
a cloth for wiping brushes;
paper towel.

What paints do we use?
cadmium yellow;
cobalt yellow;
cadmium orange;
deep red cadmium;
alizarin;
opera;
ultramarine;
cobalt blue;
azure;
peacock blue;
gray payne;
grayish.
(All shades presented are available in Japanese Holbein paints)
What brushes do we use?
Brush "cat's tongue" (width 3\4);
Round sable brushes sizes 12 and 8.

What are we doing?

Before we start drawing on a blank sheet of paper, we will outline the boundaries of the area in which we will paint (draw lines at a distance of a centimeter from each side of the sheet, you will get a frame). Subtly draw the outlines of the sun, horizon and palm trees on the shore. Such a landscape will help determine how much sky there will be, and the sun will be the “light source” in our picture.

1. Wet the sky with clean water using a cat's tongue brush. You can apply water directly on top of your palm trees. The sheet should be wet above the horizon line. We will use the wet-on-wet technique and a brush number 12. The colors will go from light to dark. Take some cadmium yellow and cobalt yellow by dipping the wet paints onto the damp paper. Start from the horizon line, making horizontal strokes. Be careful not to apply strokes too regularly. Leave the sun unpainted, it will remain white and will be the brightest spot in your future painting.

2. Now we select colors for our sky. Since we are drawing upward, the color spectrum will change from yellow to blue. In order to get a smooth color transition while maintaining the brightness of the sunset, never mix colors by skipping shades (for example, blue and orange). In the “wet” technique, this can result in a dirty color.

3. After painting a couple of centimeters of yellow, mix cadmium yellow and cadmium orange. The next one will just be cadmium red. You can make light horizontal strokes of orange in the yellow area.

4. Continue adding colors. To go from red to blue, mix several shades of warm red with cool red to create a richer, darker shade. We mixed alazarin and opera with cadmium red. This will "cool" the color, the cool shade of red has a slight bluish tint, so it will be easier to transition to blue. Add those sunset red colors by adding horizontal lines. If the paper suddenly starts to dry out, blot it with a clean brush and water. Once the cool red line is drawn, mix ultramarine and alizarin on the palette. The result will be deep purple. Apply it to the area above the red. Since purple has a blue tint, make sure you don't touch the orange area of your design.

5. Since you are already at the very top, mix ultramarine and cobalt blue on your palette to create a deeper blue shade. Apply it to the purple area, getting a little over the red area but avoiding the orange area. For the edge of the design, mix azure, peacock blue and cobalt blue and apply it to the sky. You can add a little blue to the purple area with horizontal lines.

6. Finishing touches for our sunset: take a clean size 8 brush, wet it with water, and apply light strokes around the sun. The sun should not be perfectly round, otherwise it will look unnatural. It's time to color the water. Wash the palette so that blue, yellow and red do not accidentally mix.

7. So, water. We will use the same colors as at sunset, but in reverse order, because our water is a mirror of the sky. Again, start with the horizon, painting in yellow and orange, excluding the area that is directly under the sun. Apply the paint in a zigzag pattern, this will create a ripple effect on the water surface. When you're done with yellow and orange, add cadmium red, followed by alizarin. Since the water area is smaller than the sky, the height of the color application will be less than in the sky.

8. Using a size 8 brush, soften the areas where the paint touches the white color coming from the sun. You can add several lines of paint in this area, using thinned shades as you approach the horizon line to create the effect of depth.

9. Now mix ultramarine and alizarin to make it purple again, and apply it to the area next to the red. As you approach the foreground, the color should become more saturated. To finish the water section, mix ultramarine, azure, peacock blue and cobalt blue for the bottom of the picture. The painting must be dry before continuing.

10. Check with the back of your hand that the painting is dry. If it's dry, find the lines of the initial palm tree sketch. Due to the illumination provided by the sun, objects in the foreground will be dark and only their silhouettes will be visible. To reproduce this effect, we mix ultramarine, alizarin, cadmium red, payne gray, and grayish. The result will be a rich dark purple color. Use it to draw palm trees. Leave gaps between palm leaves to create a natural tree look. You can add some coconuts to make it look like they grow on trees. Don't try to make trees symmetrical or even.

11. Once you've finished painting the trees, use the same color to paint a small piece of land on the bottom edge of your painting. Add the finishing touches and leave the drawing to dry. Finally, you can use an eraser to remove the pencil marks.

Drawing a landscape in watercolors step by step for children from 5 years old. Master class with step-by-step photos

Master class on painting with watercolors from 5 years old "Landscape". Introduction to watercolor paints

Author: Natalya Aleksandrovna Ermakova, teacher, Municipal budgetary educational institution of additional education for children “Children’s Art School named after A. A. Bolshakov”, Velikiye Luki, Pskov region.
Description: The master class is intended for children from 5 years old and their parents, educators, and additional education teachers.
Purpose: interior decoration, gift, drawing for exhibitions and competitions.
Target: creating a landscape using watercolor technique.
Tasks:
-introduce children to the profession of an artist, give them an idea of fine art and painting;
- teach how to work with watercolors: wetting the paints before painting, diluting with water to obtain different shades of the same color, thoroughly washing the brush.
-learn to work with color when creating a landscape using watercolor technique;
- practice working with different numbers of brushes;
- to develop an interest in fine arts.

I have a pencil
Multi-colored gouache,
Watercolor, palette, brush
And a thick sheet of paper,
And also a tripod easel,
Because I...(artist)
Hello, dear guests! An artist is a wonderful profession. All he has to do is take paper, brushes, and paints. There was nothing on paper, but the first lines appeared: one, another - the picture was ready.
An artist can draw anything: a house, a forest, people, animals. And the artist paints pictures. And he writes according to his own plan, like a writer
An artist is a person who knows how to see beauty in the ordinary, remembers his impressions and knows how to express his thoughts and fantasies on paper, in stone or in other materials.

The artist knows how to create new worlds in his paintings and drawings, unprecedented beauties and strange animals, and sometimes something completely new; the colors in the drawings turn into fireworks of colors and shades, they evoke incredible joyful emotions.
The first artists appeared in the Stone Age. The role of canvas or paper was then played by the walls of stone caves and various kinds of household items of ancient people, and artists used coal and mineral dyes as paints. The work of the artist was closely connected with the production of paints, and people considered this a magical effect. Much later, people began to paint icons, portraits, still lifes, landscapes - and they began to call all this the world of fine art (the art of capturing images).

So, artists are people involved in the visual arts; there are many different directions in this profession:
-An artist is an artist in the broad sense of the word (he can do everything)
-An artist is a person who practices fine art.
-Graphic artist - deals with graphics (drawings with pencil, charcoal, felt-tip pens)
-Photo artist - engaged in photo art
-Cartoonist
-Illustrator

- Painter - engages in painting.
Painting is the art of depicting objects with paints. One of the types of fine art associated with the transmission of visual images through the application of paints to a rigid or flexible surface. The name came from two words “live” (living) and “write” (draw) - so it turns out to write like a living thing, and artists who paint began to be called painters.

In the art gallery
There are very, very many of them.
On this sea we see
And over there is the road.
Oil, watercolor
Artists' creations. (Paintings)
There are many different directions (topics for drawing) in painting, let's look at some of them:
If you see what's in the picture
Is anyone looking at us?
Or a prince in an old cloak,
Or a steeplejack in a robe,

Pilot or ballerina,
Or Kolka, your neighbor,
Required picture
It's called a portrait.

If you see in the picture
Cup of coffee on the table
Or fruit drink in a large decanter,
Or a rose in crystal,
Or a bronze vase,
Or a pear, or a cake,
Or all items at once,
Know that this is a still life.

If you see in the picture
A river is drawn
Or spruce and white frost,
Or a garden and clouds,
Or a snowy plain
Or a field and a hut,
Required picture
It's called landscape

The artist creates his paintings and drawings using various paints - gouache, watercolor and many other paints. A true artist first of all always gets to know his paints, studies their properties, colors and shades. Conducts experiments on mixing paints and obtaining new colors, diluting them with water or painting thickly and richly. Today we will get acquainted with watercolors, what kind of paints are these?
Their name is related to water because "Aqua" means "water". When you dissolve them with water and start painting, you create the effect of lightness, airiness, and subtle color transitions. Before painting, the paints must be moistened with water. Dip the brush into clean water and shake off any drops of paint onto the paint without touching it with the bristles of the brush.
Before you start painting, you need to try out the paints. Each color is tested on paper, we put paint on the brush and draw small specks of the color of each paint. And you can immediately see which paint is transparent and which is strong and saturated. A very important feature of watercolor paints is that the more you dilute them with water, the more transparent they will appear, and if you add less water, the colors will be more saturated. After trying each color, you need to wash your brush so as not to stain the paint. Watercolor paint is clear, transparent and loves cleanliness. After we have become acquainted with all the colors, we can conduct experiments on mixing different colors, two, or even three. Remember which paint is friends with which, or vice versa, their friendship ends badly and turns out to be a dirty puddle.
Three colors, three colors, three colors
Guys, isn't this enough?
Where can we get green and orange?
What if we mix paints in pairs?
From blue and red (this one)
We will get the color ... (purple).
And we will mix blue and yellow.
What color do we get? (green)
And red plus yellow is no secret to everyone,
Of course they will give it to us... (orange color).
This exercise to get acquainted with colors is carried out before the main task; children happily respond and conduct experiments with color. This exercise can be done on a separate piece of paper, but it is better to have a “cheat sheet” album, where children will do exercises to get acquainted with color and learn various painting techniques every time.

Materials and tools:
-sheet of A3 paper (for landscape)
- A4 sheet for testing colors (or album)
-watercolor
- brushes of three sizes (large, medium, thin)
-simple pencil, eraser (for the youngest children - you can use it to draw a horizon line)
-a glass for water
-cloth for brushes

Progress of the master class:

I see a land hitherto unknown.
The land around is well maintained and beautiful...
But to me, my soul, it’s so lovely here!
So broad is the beauty of my Russia!
Today we will draw a landscape; for kids, showing the future drawing and examining it - what is depicted on it - plays a good role.

The landscape begins with the border of sky and earth - this is the horizon line, where they meet each other. Draw a horizon line with the tip of the brush, then begin to paint the sky from the very top of the sheet in a horizontal direction. I always draw with the kids, a new technique, a new detail of the work, and the children then repeat it in their drawing.

Brush strokes should be large, smooth, use the largest brush. The paint must be diluted well with water, and try to create an even, monochromatic background.

Then from the horizon line we draw the earth, the field (green color). The brush must be washed thoroughly after each color. We paint the surface in a horizontal direction, with a large brush, green with a large addition of water.

Now take a medium-sized brush and paint with its tip. The paint color is emerald - we paint the hills, the paint is bright and rich.

Using a clean brush and water, blur the emerald lines of the hills, from the emerald color to the main green. So that there is a smooth transition from color to color. The work is carried out with the addition of a large amount of water, almost on a damp background (that’s why the work shines). Excess water can be removed by dabbing with a cloth.

We leave the field to dry and return to working on the sky. We put red paint on the brush and draw a rich stripe above the horizon line.

Wash the brush, use a clean brush with water to draw a line along the bottom edge of the red stripe, blur it.

Add orange and yellow colors in the same way.

Now we draw blades of grass using vertical small strokes; the further they are from us, the smaller they are.

Then wash the brush, squeeze it out and lightly smear the blades of grass, as if rubbing them with a brush. Draw a red sun.

By slapping the leaf with a brush we draw bushes.

Along the horizon we draw a line saturated with blue - a forest in the distance. And with a thin brush, a blade of grass in the foreground of the drawing.

With a thin brush we make vertical blue lines, where the forest is, these are trees.

Lessons for beginners: drawing a summer landscape with paints and pencils.

The bright colors of summer give a huge boost of positive energy. Landscapes drawn by a child’s hand evoke particular tenderness and delight. They encourage little artists like those who have already painted this picture to create something similar.
You can draw such a work of art yourself, it is not very difficult.
Don't know where to start? Then this article is just for you.

How to draw a beautiful summer nature landscape with a pencil step by step for beginners?

We prepare in advance:

White paper for drawing
Rubber band for erasing
Set of colored pencils
Fine marker - black
Semi-hard pencil

Let's start drawing:

The landscape will contain a house wall element. To place it correctly in the projection, you must take the following steps:

Draw the horizon line with a pencil
We mark on it the central point of connection of the projection
We sketch the outlines of the house, connecting auxiliary lines at the vanishing point
Notice how this is done in the example below

We design windows in a similar way

We lay a narrow path heading towards the design point
Outlining images of trees

Detailing sketches of trees

Let's diversify the foreground with a sitting cat and a flowering mallow

We outline all the contours with a marker

Using an eraser, remove the auxiliary drawing

Matte the path with brown color
We shade the grass on the shady side of the trees with a dark green pencil
The rest of the space is filled with light greenery.

We paint the pine trunks in a dark brown tone, highlighting some places with an eraser

Our cat will be bright red
We paint the remaining unpainted foreground in a soft green color, detailing the greenery with a dark green pencil
Add the necessary shadow elements throughout the clearing, using brown and green pencils, achieving a natural look

In the background, we paint the forest area with mixed blue-green tones

We give the foliage cover of pine trees a light green color
To give volume to the foliage, we make dark strokes on it in places with a green palette
We shade the celestial space with rich tones of blue
Coloring the mallow with pink and crimson tones
Make a yellow speck in the center of the flower

All that remains is to paint the walls of the house brown
We shade the windows and foundation with gray tones

Video: Landscape with watercolor pencils

How to draw a beautiful summer landscape of nature with paints, watercolors, gouache step by step for beginners?

Painting with paints is a little more difficult, so let's draw a simple sunny landscape.

We visually divide the landscape sheet into three zones.
Of which, the top two are for the sky, the bottom is for the earth.
For the skies we use white and yellow paint, carefully mixing, and creating whitish and yellowish areas

The sky is colored

We create sun glare in the sky, highlighting individual areas with white and yellow paints
In the center of the leaf, in a brown tone we form tree trunks
Experimenting with colors, mixing paints, adding greenery to dark colors

Fantasy sketching methods

Using yellow and green flowers we divide the tree into separate branches

Summer tree trunk

Reviving the tree with wide branches
Using whitewash we highlight some points on the trunk

Branches appear

We draw the following larch in a similar way

Second tree

Apply green foliage with a wide brush

Let's move on to the green crown

For a natural palette, add yellow and a little blue paint
We treat some areas with paint, applying it to an almost dry brush.
Take a thin brush and mark the second row of trees in the background
We apply the crown with light green paint, in some places by spraying
First add dark green, then yellow and white.

Leaves by sprinkling

We touch up some areas of the leaves with a thin brush, mixing green, white and yellow tones

Emphasizing the beauty of leaves

On the right side of the sheet we draw a distant forest area. To do this, mix blue, white and yellow paints

We complement the picture with small details

Let's emphasize the glare of the sun's rays with bright yellow spots in leaf gaps
Let's make an accent with a white dot in the center of the spots
Draw a yellow line along the tree line

Moving to the foreground

Next, we form a green array on the left side, exactly the same as on the right

Let's go back a little

Using a wide brush, paint green grass, adding some yellow and blue strokes

Adding beauty to the earthen massif

We shade the ground with gray paint, while it is in the shadow
Cover it with yellow spots on top

A few more shades

Apply white paint by sprinkling it with a hard brush

We finish with beautiful splashes

How to draw an easy summer landscape with a pencil for beginners?

To work you will need:

Black marker
Simple hard pencil
Assorted colored pencils

Stages of creativity:

Visually mark the horizon line on a piece of paper
Along the intended visual line, sketch two hilly hills with a pencil

Hills on a summer landscape

The hills are divided by the curving lines of the river
At the peak of the hills we form 2 paths directed to the reservoir

small river

On the right side of the background we draw a forest: spruce, wild apricots or cherries, oaks, pines
We write large trees that are located closer, with a clear image of the details. In the background - smaller, making schematic outlines

Greening with nature

What is a summer landscape without bright sun? Draw his round face above the forest
Decorate with long rays
Let's cover the sunny corner a little with a lush cloud

Sun disk in summer

Let's bring the picture to life with a flying bird

fluttering bird

Make the contours clear using a black marker. Remove all unnecessary strokes with an eraser

Uncolored project

Let's move on to coloring.

Our solar disk will be a rich yellow color
For brightness, let’s dilute it with red and orange strokes
We highlight the area around the bright star with a yellow palette
Let's make the sky and clouds naturally blue
We paint the forest area with natural green color
To add volume to the drawing, we tint some places with a rich green pencil.
Reflections of the sun's color are reflected with yellow strokes: in the clearing and treetops
We paint the hills with a soft green color, smoothly turning into a thick green tone
We saturate water bodies with a blue palette

Summer landscape in gouache

The undoubted advantage of drawing pictures in stages is that you can start this process at any age.
The main thing is to have desire and patience, and of course the necessary material at hand. And over time, your understanding of the stages of drawing any image will come.

Video: Drawing a landscape with birch trees in gouache

Watercolor is a great medium for landscape painting and produces great results. So we will try to draw a simple but nice summer landscape, which can be copied from an ordinary photograph. Moreover, such a landscape can be created using only two colors, cadmium yellow and cobalt. Watercolor opens up absolutely wonderful scope for creativity.

As already mentioned, to create the landscape shown below, you only need two watercolors, blue and yellow, which create the color green.

Isn't it surprising that such a variety of shades is available only with the use of two watercolor paints, which are mixed in a certain proportion?

Your end result may be completely different, say, more transparent or, on the contrary, more saturated. However, it is not necessary to complete all the steps described in this lesson; you have the opportunity to stop at any appropriate moment. At the same time, remember that the water in the jar in which the brush is rinsed should be changed as often as possible, unless, of course, you really need pure colors.

How to apply paint

The answer is simple - you need to apply it in stripes. At the same time, in order for the paint to flow well, it is advisable to hold the sheet not on a horizontal surface, but at a certain angle. This can be done using an easel or any stand that will make it possible to create the necessary tilt and allow the paints to flow where needed. You don’t have to buy a stand; you can make it yourself, say, using a block of wood or an old book. This stand is then placed under the tablet, on which, in turn, a sheet of watercolor paper is attached.

Speaking of paper. Of course, it is better to purchase special watercolor paper that has texture and good density. If the paper is thin enough, like whatman paper, then it is better to stretch it onto the tablet, otherwise when it is wetted, the paper will wrinkle and nothing good will come of it.

And advice on how to draw stripes. The stripes should be drawn from the top edge of the sheet to the middle, then the tablet is turned over and leans against a wooden block. Gradually the paint will flow downwards, and since we turned the tablet over, in reality it will be directed upwards. This simple method makes it possible to achieve a more intense color.

Well, let's start drawing a summer landscape using watercolors.

Creating a composition

Take a 2B pencil and mark a rectangle on the drawing that will represent the edges of the painting. As you remember, such a landscape can (and should, for training) be drawn from a photograph. Using light strokes, indicate the horizon line, yellow and green areas.

Let's move on to creating the sky

Now take cobalt blue and a wider brush. Position the tablet so that the paint can flow down unimpeded. Start with a rich color and after the paint has flowed closer to the center, gradually dilute it with water. This way we get a sky whose tone changes from dark to light.

Enhancing the color of the sky

It's time to turn the tablet over and place it at an angle (lean it against a support). At the top of the sky you need to add more cobalt blue. Since the tablet is turned at an angle, the paint will not flow down, so the color of the upper sky area will be more saturated. Now wait a little until the paper dries.

Adding a base color

Turn the tablet over again to the desired position. Rinse the brush thoroughly, add clean water to another container, say a saucer, and dilute a little cadmium yellow there. There should be enough paint to cover the front area of the landscape. Apply the paint in stripes, moving from top to bottom. Then the paper should dry, after which repeat the procedure with another layer of paint and again you will have to wait until everything is dry. Don't rush if you are interested in a truly high-quality result.

Mixing paints to get green

Let's start with the green color, which will require mixing two paints. We take a container, add yellow cadmium to it and then add cobalt blue drop by drop. Gradually until we get the green color of the desired shade. The more cobalt blue added, the darker the green will appear.

Adding green color

We no longer need the stand under the tablet, so we remove it. Now rinse your brush and move it along the horizon, exactly where you plan to place the green field. Then take the green paint and run the stripe again so that the bottom edge is mixed with the yellow paint.

Creating the foreground

Let's move on to the foreground of the landscape, for which we will also need green paint. Move the brush from left to right. Then put more paint on the brush and make some uneven strokes. Hurry up, you don't want the paint to dry.

Creating the background

While the green field in the background is still wet, add a small amount of cobalt blue to the green paint on the palette to deepen the tone. Now draw a line of such a dark tone along the horizon so that it appears more distant.

Let's move to perspective

Draw strong diagonal lines in a dark green tone. The paint should be applied in such a way that it does not dry out. Lines should be drawn from right to left, which allows you to demonstrate perspective.

Strengthening the tone of the yellow field

Paint the yellow field again to deepen the color. Then wait until the paint dries. Take the same color and make several uneven stripes that will run along the field. Again we wait until the paint dries.

Selecting the slope

Cover the front of the painting with a small layer of plain water. Now, using dark green paint, draw some jagged diagonal lines from right to left. These lines should intersect everything that goes towards the horizon. Wait until the paint spreads.

Give the field a natural shade

Using dark green paint, brush along the bottom of the green field that is closest to the horizon. Now wait until the paint on the yellow field dries. Mix cadmium yellow with a small amount of cobalt blue to achieve a dirty yellow color. Add a few of these strokes to the yellow field to create a jagged effect. Wait until the painting is dry.

In principle, our summer landscape is ready. However, if you don't want to stop there, let's see what else you can do with it.

Adding a hedge

Add a little yellow cadmium to cobalt blue. Using a thin brush, paint small pillars along the yellow field. To do this, use small strokes from top to bottom. Moreover, the farther the pillars are located, the smaller they seem, as well as the visual distance between them decreases.

Adding wire and blurring lines

Using the same brush, move from left to right and create thin lines that indicate the wire stretched between the posts. Try to make sure that the brush barely reaches the paper. Wait until the paint dries, then dab your brush in clean water and run it over the wire to make the paint blurrier and the removed lines less clear.

Increasing the influence of perspective

Add cobalt blue to the green paint to get a darker color. Now use it to draw several diagonal lines in the front of the landscape, from right to left. To make the perspective look more visible, the darkest paint should be added to the lower right part of the picture. Well, the landscape is ready and we just have to wait until the paint dries.

Ready landscape

Let's see what we got in detail.

A) Area of decreasing tone. You need to make sure that the intense blue tone of the sky becomes lighter as it moves towards the horizon. In essence, this is what a natural sky looks like.

B) Blurring of the hedge. We ran a brush with clean water over the wire, as well as the fence going into the distance, thereby making the lines less harsh. As a result, the image of the hedge has become more blurred and the landscape will turn out quite harmonious.

B) Several layers of green paint were chosen for the foreground. At the same time, the darkest tone spread without problems, since it was applied last.

The landscape could look completely different, for example, here is a small version.

In this case, a stronger and more saturated color was used. In addition, additional colors were used, in particular, red was applied over green, and yellow was covered with purple, resulting in a different version of the landscape. Also, as you can see, there is no hedge, which makes the perspective seem more open. In addition, the painting depicts a different time of day, as the pink haze on the horizon clearly indicates earlier morning, rather than day, as represented in the main landscape.

In order to paint a simple landscape in watercolor, it is advisable, first of all, to choose a suitable motif. This could be a photo from the Internet or a beautiful place in nature. Drawing from life will be easier if you are not going to redraw it exactly. In this master class we will draw 2 landscapes at once, of varying complexity.

To begin with, it is advisable to secure a sheet of paper on the board with pushpins so that it does not curl when it gets wet and just for convenience. The board itself, called an easel, is usually located at an angle of about 45 degrees.

After the paper is secured, you need to take a pencil, eraser and make a sketch. The sketch should not be made with too thick lines so that they are not clearly visible under the paint in the end. There is no need to work out all the details in the sketch; it is enough to roughly outline the main elements of the composition.

Next, the sheet of paper should be wetted. Usually, the background and sky are painted with watercolors on wet. This gives the effect of beautiful and smooth transitions from one color to another. Try not to paint the sky only blue or the grass only green - it is always better to use several colors, this will make the picture more picturesque. But also, try to avoid mixing a large number (no more than 3) of different colors, otherwise it may turn out gray. And if you still want to paint gray, then use not black paint, but a mixture of colored paints (red and emerald, for example). Then the gray color will have a beautiful shade. Don’t be afraid to experiment with color, add colors that aren’t actually in the picture. Even in the most colorless landscape, you can find all the colors of the rainbow, because light is made of them.

When painting a landscape in watercolor, you need to start painting with the lightest tones and ending with the darkest, because a light tone can be covered by a dark one, but vice versa - not. Most often, the lightest part of the picture is the sky and they start painting from there. If you paint the sun, then it should be the lightest element of the picture and you can paint it over with the most diluted paint - then it will shine.

In addition to the sun, light can be a reflection on water or fog - they also need to be drawn first, along with the sky and other light details.

Gradually, from lighter tones, we move to darker ones and begin to draw more precise shapes. Now the paper should not be too wet so that the paint does not spread. But it can be wet and if you paint the background, it will turn out a little blurry and create a hazy effect. In order for the picture to look natural, the background should be blurrier and lighter, and the foreground should be darker and clearer.

Thus, we will paint the entire general background with light tones. After this, you can move on to drawing smaller details. They should also be painted, first, with lighter paint, and then paint over the darker areas.

And only at the very end, you should work out small details, add the darkest shadows, and add clarity. That's all, the first landscape is ready.

Here is an example of the second landscape, a little more complicated.