VanGogh watercolour: Cerulean blue, Burnt sienna, Raw sienna. Watercolour paper Gerstaecker 300gm.
- Sketch/trace basic drawing from the copy using a water soluble crayon (use a crayon colour close to the watercolour colours)
- Place horizon line above the centre line (5.5 - 7cm from the top)
- Turn board at 180 degrees wet paper with water and paint the sky with raw sienna starting with a light colour on the right and adding cerulean blue on the left allow paint to mix on the paper. Important: Paint over the trees don't stop the sky colour above the tops of the trees
- Allow to dry and turn board back to 0 degrees
- Paint the building next - avoiding the roof (leave the roof white). Use cerulean + burnt sienna allow colours to mix on the paper, this should be your darkest tone. Paint roof window in the same tones. Use a dark brown crayon to mark wood panels.
- Add trees in different tones of cerulean + raw sienna. Draw in trunks with pointed end of paintbrush or a stick. (Don't make them all the same height or distance apart).
- Draw in a diagonal for the foreground and apply a wash of cerulean + raw sienna. Don't forget to leave some white paper, snow has different colours but there is always some white!
- Add washes of burnt sienna to foreground draw in some grasses with a crayon
- Add toothbrush splatter effects. It's a good idea to place scrap paper to protect areas you don't want splatter on. Note - I forgot and you can see splatter effects where I didn't want them!!
- Add more darks to foreground (fence posts) and some shadows under the background trees to "plant" them in the ground. Don't forget you need some darks in the foreground - see aeriel perspective