PRACTICAL 2ND OF 5
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This second article in my series uses a hillside in the English Lake District to look at aerial perspective – the perception of the landscape becoming more blue with increasing distance. It also demonstrates how to generate a clear focal point by using tonal contrast. In the demonstration, below, the focal point is a white farmhouse ‘silhouetted’ against dark trees.
DEMONSTRATION Coniston Fells
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MATERIALS
• Support Daler-Rowney A4 Aquafine watercolour artboard, supported by a wooden board, which is great for preventing buckling
• Watercolours Winsor & Newton Professional watercolours in tubes: ultramarine blue; phthalo turquoise; quinacridone violet; permanent sap green; burnt umber; and transparent yellow
• Brushes Three watercolour brushes: lin flat; a smaller flat; and a rigger
• Soft 2B pencil
• Acrylic eraser
• Palettes with deep wells
• Kitchen roll
• Table salt
STAGE ONE
I used my own edited photographs combined with memories of my visit and my imagination to paint this scene.