Choose colours cobalt blue, raw sienna, burnt sienna and neutral tint (or paynes grey which has a little more blue) very small amount of burnt sienna + White gouache. Note the sand is black.
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Sketch composition - Horizon line comes about 1/3 the way up the painting. Wet whole of top 2/3 with clean water, drop in dark blue + grey for sky add a little dilute raw sienna . DRY then add in background trees with grey and blue + raw sienna. The tree shape is important move you brush in cross strokes not horizontal strokes
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Dry Wet area above foreground line turn board upside down paint on dark grey and blue and allow to dribble down. Important NO HARD EDGES
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Paint the rocks roughly with a pale underwash using different colours and tones of blue, grey, raw and burnt sienna. Paint path with dilute raw sienna |
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| Add in dark foreground trees soften the edges next to the mist | Add more darks to bases and side of trees
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