How to draw the Nativity of Christ with gouache paints

In this lesson we will paint Christmas night with gouache paints. Learn how to draw a temple (church, cathedral) of Christ the Savior and a Christmas star that showed the way to the Magi. The lesson is detailed with a description in pictures.

Materials used: gouache, A3 paper, nylon brushes numbered 2, 3, 5.

Place a sheet of paper horizontally. We outline with a thin line the hill on which the church will be located. We don't need a pencil anymore.

We perform the sky in three colors - light yellow, pink and blue.

Blur the borders making the transitions smoother.

Snow draw saturated blue.

We draw the basis of the church in the form of three rectangles. First, paint in the middle of the composition, similar to a square with a gray tint. Then make the shade darker and draw two more temple bases around the edges.

Using the laws of perspective, we need to draw the roof in blue. Take a close look at how it's done.

We draw the “drums” on which we will subsequently make the domes (the main drum is done with a lighter, small ones with a darker shade of gray).

Draw three domes in yellow. The dome is the largest in the middle and smaller on the sides.

We take black color and with a thin brush we show parts of the structure. We draw the door in brown, do not make it too big, about 1/3 of the original base without a roof.

Slightly blur the lines from one edge, creating a shadow effect.

On the central part of the temple we draw five windows in yellow, and on the side parts of the temple in black.

Strengthen the shadows with blue.

Outline the windows with thin dark lines. We take an orange-dark color and show a shadow from below the domes. On the doors we show the shadow with a darker paint than the door itself.

We take white color and draw snow on the roof and domes.

We add snow to the window frames, arcade belt, under the roof slopes and on the protruding parts of the walls.

We intensify the shadows with thin contours, around the window frames, on the columns of the arched belt, under the slopes of the roofs and on the protruding parts of the walls, on the doors and “drums” of the temple.

With a thin brush in orange we draw crosses on the domes, with light white strokes we apply glare on them.

For blue flowers we outline the outline of the grove in the background.

We fill the silhouette of the grove with a pale semi-transparent purple color.

With a thin brush, draw the tree trunks of the grove - blue, blue and white.

Sufficiently with broad strokes, we outline the contours of future trees and the silhouettes of the bush in the foreground.

Blur the white outlines along the inner edge creating a transparent effect.

We repeat the previously used technique - we draw the contours of future trees and the silhouettes of a bush in the foreground, reducing them in size, achieving a splendor effect.

We repeat the technique with a blur along the inner edge.

With a thin brush, draw the trunks and main branches on the trees and shrubs.

We draw small branches on the bushes and trees.

Add white twigs on shrubs and trees. We outline snowdrifts.

We increase the brightness of the snowdrifts by highlighting them along the upper edge in blue and slightly blurring.

We represent the stars with white dots of different sizes in the sky.

The largest star is depicted above the main dome of the temple.

With light light yellow and white strokes, paint the light from the star (to achieve the desired effect, the brush should be almost dry). That's all the drawing of the night of Christmas with a Christmas star and a temple is ready.

Author: O.S. Dyakova ped-kopilka.ru