How to draw winter with gouache
Gouache drawing lesson. This lesson is dedicated to the season of winter and is called how to draw winter with gouache paints in stages. Winter is a harsh season, but also beautiful at the same time. Very beautiful landscapes with white steppes, trees stand with a white crown, and when the snow falls, it becomes fun and you want to frolic. Then you come home, it's warm, you drink hot tea, and it's also great, because there is a place where they are waiting for you and you can warm up. These days you understand all the beauty and all the severity of nature, then all this bothers you and you want summer, bask in the sun, swim in the sea.
We will draw winter at night, when the sun has gone below the horizon, it is dark, but the moon is shining and something is visible, the light is on in the house, the water in the lake is frozen, the tree is covered in snow, there are stars in the sky.
First, on a piece of paper, you need to make a preliminary sketch with a pencil. It is better to take an A3 sheet, that is, like two landscape sheets together. You can add your own details to this drawing if it seems incomplete to you.
You can not carefully draw the details, just try to keep the balance of the composition on a piece of paper. With a large brush (it is better to take a bristle brush), draw the sky. It is necessary to ensure that the transition is fairly even and smooth. Above - mix dark blue paint with black (pre-mix on the palette), then smoothly move to blue and gradually introduce white paint. All this can be seen in the picture.
Now let's slowly move on to the house. Our house is located close enough to us, so let's draw it in more detail. I propose to draw a house a little exaggerated, cartoonish, or something, so it's easier to practice working with strokes. We need ocher first. This is approximately the middle between brown and yellow paint. If there is no such paint, mix yellow, brown and a little white paint on the palette. Spend a few strokes along the log of the house.
Then, at the bottom of the log, make a few more short strokes of brown paint. Don't wait for the ocher to dry - apply directly to wet paint. Just don't use too much water - the paint shouldn't be runny - it's not watercolor.
So we have achieved halftones. Now, by mixing black and brown, we will strengthen the shadow at the bottom of the log. Apply paint in short, fine strokes.
Thus, it is necessary to draw all the logs that make up the house - a light top and a dark bottom.
The upper part of the house, where the attic window is located, is painted over with vertical strokes. Try to apply strokes at a time, without smearing, so as not to disturb the texture of the wood.
The house is still far from being completed. Now let's move on to the window. Since it is night outside, the lights are on in the house. Let's try to draw it now. For this we need yellow, brown and white paint. Draw a yellow strip around the perimeter of the window.
Now let's add white paint to the middle. Do not take too liquid - the paint should be thick enough. Gently blend the edges, making the transition smooth. Apply a little brown paint along the edges of the window, also smoothly mixing it with yellow. Draw a frame around the perimeter of the window. And in the middle, do not bring a little to a white spot - as if the light blurs the outlines of the frame.
When the window is ready, you can paint the shutters and trim. It's up to your taste. Put some snow on the outside window sill and between the logs. The end circles of the logs must also be drawn in shape. Apply strokes in a circle, first with ocher, then mark the annual rings with a darker color, brown and underline the shadow at the bottom with black (mixing it with brown so that it does not come out aggressively).
First paint over the snow on the roof with white gouache, then mix blue, black and white on the palette. Try to get a light blue-gray color. Draw a shadow at the bottom of the snow with this color. Don't wait for the paint to dry - the colors should overlap and blend.
We have drawn the sky, now we need to draw a distant forest. First, by mixing black and white (it is necessary to get the color just a little darker than the sky), we draw with vertical strokes the outlines of trees that are not distinguishable at night at a great distance. Then, adding a little dark blue to the mixed paint, we will draw another silhouette of trees a little lower - they will be closer to our house.
We draw the foreground, forming a frozen lake. The lake itself can be drawn in the same way as the sky, only upside down. That is, the colors must be mixed in reverse order. Please note that the snow is not painted over with an even white color. Try to form snowdrifts. You need to do this with the help of a shadow. The figure shows how this can be done.
On the left, we left a place to draw a Christmas tree covered with snow. How easy it is to draw a Christmas tree, we have already analyzed here. And now you can simply draw the outline of the Christmas tree with a few strokes. In the dark, many colors are lost, so just paint with dark green paint. You can add some blue to it.
Put snow on the paws of the Christmas tree. You can darken the bottom edge of the snow a little, but not necessarily. Take a large hard brush, pick up some paint on it so that the brush is semi-dry (do not dip in a jar of water before you set the paint) and add snow to the ice.
We forgot to draw a stove heating pipe at the house! Wow house without stove in winter. Mix brown, black and white paint and draw a pipe, draw lines with a thin brush to indicate the bricks, Draw smoke coming from the pipe.
In the background, with a thin brush, draw the silhouettes of trees.
You can improve the picture without end. You can draw stars in the sky, put a picket fence around the house, etc. But sometimes it is better to stop in time so as not to spoil the work.
You can also watch lessons on the topic of winter:
1. Winter landscape
2. Street in winter
3. Everything related to the New Year and Christmas.
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