How to draw summer with gouache

In this lesson we will look at how to beautifully draw summer with gouache paints in stages. Let's draw a bright sunny day.

This drawing took very little time. I worked on A4 format, that is, a simple landscape sheet. The space of the sheet was divided approximately into three parts. The top two will be the sky, and on the bottom we will draw the earth.

For the sky, I used white and yellow paint, carefully mixing and creating white and yellowish areas.

Approximately in the middle of a horizontally located sheet, we will begin to draw tree trunks. If you don't have brown paint in your kit, you can easily get it by mixing red and green paint. By adding more of one or another color, you can achieve different desired shades. You can add quite a bit of blue to get a darker, almost black, color.

We will not draw the bark of the tree realistically, it is enough to divide the tree into separate branches in general. Yellow and green can be added to brown. without waiting for the gouache to dry.

Let's draw branches and white highlights on the trunk.

Let's draw the second tree in the same way.

Let's draw the foliage first with a total mass, then we will highlight the details. For her I used green, yellow, some blue for a more realistic color. Painted with a large brush. In some places I applied gouache with an almost dry brush.

I determined with a thin brush the location of the trees of the second plan. The foliage was made with a brush and spraying method. I used a stiff brush, but you can also use an old toothbrush for this. It depends on the ease of use. I splashed on the trees of the foreground first with dark green gouache, a little yellow and white.

In the necessary places, she corrected the crown of the trees with a thin brush, mixing green gouache with white and yellow.

On the right side, I painted a distant forest, mixing blue, white and yellow paint. Note that the edge of the nearby tree's foliage should be light yellow. This will create a backlight effect.

To make the glare of light in the gaps of the foliage bright, we first apply yellow spots in the right places, and then put a small dot in the middle with white gouache.

Let's draw a gouache yellow stripe where the grass begins in the foreground.

But before drawing the land, let's draw a distant forest on the other, right side. We also mix white, blue, yellow gouache. With darker paint, we will draw barely distinguishable tree trunks and sprinkle with a little white gouache.

With wide strokes, draw the earth in the foreground.

Let's draw a shadow under the tree and yellow spots of light.

We put white strokes in the middle of the spots and sprinkle with white paint from a hard brush or toothbrush.

Author: Marina Tereshkova Source: mtdesign.ru